Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – James Tapper reports on the UK’s soaring rates of long-term illness caused by COVID-19, while Tara Madden writes about the utter uselessness…
Unknown
Putin, the Evil Emperor
Vlad Putin is a malevolent little shit who learned what little he knows of humanity in the dungeons of Lubyanka. His greatest achievement was to persuade Boris Yeltsin to take…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Kent Sepkowitz examines the many and severe symptoms of COVID-19 which are emerging long after initial infections have been treated as “mild”. –…
Musical interlude
Bob Moses & ZHU – Desire
Justin’s White Elephant
The Parliamentary Budget Officer says the Justin Trudeau Memorial Pipeline Trans Mountain pipeline will be a big loser for the federal treasury. With costs now at $21.4 billion and expected…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Reuters reports on research showing that public health measures implemented in response to COVID-19 also saved hundreds of thousands of lives by limiting…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – C Raina MacIntyre offers five reasons to keep wearing a mask even after mandates are removed – and the arguments are even…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Max Planck Society explores how COVID-19 has developed to hide out and mutate within the human body. Tami Luhby discusses how even…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Lounging cats.
US Freedom Convoy Gets a Flat
2,000 trucks were expected to make the first leg of the Los Angeles to Washington Freedom Convoy. By the time these protest truckers reach Las Vegas they had amassed a…
Cold War II. It Won’t Be Your Grandpa’s Cold War
Cold War II seems to be upon us. The bad news is that it has come on extremely rapidly. The good news – there isn’t any. Mary Elise Sarotte is…
Because Nobody Wants to Hear About Climate Change
Guardian cartoonist, Martin Rowson, sums up the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
If Liquor Stores Nix Russian Vodka, Why Can’t Netflix Ditch Steven Segal?
Self-styled tough guy Steven Seagal is not only a terrible actor with a bad hairpiece but a fast friend of Vlad Putin. He’s also, somehow, for some reason, still making…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard discusses the reality that long COVID will result in lasting aftereffects even if we eventually manage to get the spread…
Chilling Words
Ever since Putin started massing troops along Ukraine’s eastern border, I’ve been wondering exactly what Russia’s objectives really were. Put aside the propaganda from Russia about Ukraine posing some kind…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Canadian Press interviews Dr. Saqib Shahab about the need for Saskatchewan’s citizens to act responsibly in getting vaccinated and taking public health…
Hey, It’s Moscow. People Disappear All the Time.
There’s been some speculation that Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine has little to do with Kiev and much to do with threats at home in the Kremlin. There’s a pattern…
Mitt Romney – Treading Water in a Sea of Morons
Flawed he may be but Mitt Romney isn’t afraid of calling out his fellow Republicans. “Look, there is no place in either political party for this White nationalism or racism.…
What’s at Stake? Nothing Less Than a Liveable Future.
With our attention glued to Ukraine and seditious truckers, this is not the best moment for something even more serious. Today, the final day of February, 2022, brings a new…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Phil Tank calls out the Moe government for concluding that Saskatchewan’s citizens should be deprived of the information we need to make…