It’s January and Big Sur is Ablaze
This is supposed to be the wet season on the Pacific coast, doubly so this year thanks to La Nina. This is the season of floods and mudslides. This is…
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Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Katharine Wu writes that contrary to the continued attempt by right-wing talking heads to equate mass viral transmission with immunity, we can’t assume…
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Cowboy Junkies – White Sail
The Booster Pays Off
The US Centers for Disease Control report that the Pfizer and Moderna boosters are paying off. The extra doses are 90 percent effective against hospitalization with the variant, the agency…
Kenney Is On The Right Track?
So, according to Ken Boessenkool, we should congratulate Jason Kenney for “being on the right track“. I get it – Ken’s a conservative organizer, and he’s going to think that…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Claire Horwell highlights how masking and other continued public health measures to rein in spread to the extent possible are the only way…
Mind Blowing. MoS Takes the Plunge.
A subscription to Google Alerts is not for the faint-hearted. Untreated, it can lead to chronic depression. I’ve avoided it for three weeks, my New Year’s resolution. Until today. I…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Moscrop writes about the need for public policy which remedies inequality rather than exacerbating it – while recognizing that we’re falling…
Climate Departure? Too Soon to Say.
I wrote to Camilo Mora asking if the bizarre severe weather events that whipsawed British Columbia in 2021 evidenced the onset of what he termed “climate departure.” About nine years…
Trump Wanted a Wall. Now He’s Run Headlong Into One.
Donald Trump has exhausted his last chance to block the release of his records to a Congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. After losing to a unanimous judgment of…
Good News. Asia Loves Jellyfish.
For most of the world the influx of jellyfish in local waters has become a real problem. Like most marine life, jellyfish are migrating into waters once too cold for…
Too Cool for School. Jordan Peterson Ditches University of Toronto.
Enough sour grapes to make cheap wine. Jordan Peterson has resigned his position as a tenured professor at the University of Toronto but he’s not bowing out gracefully. I can’t…
If They Can’t Handle a Pandemic, They’ll Never Tackle Our Real Problems
Two years and five waves reveal a dangerous pattern in the competence of Canada’s provincial and federal governments as they struggle to balance the economy with the emergency. At first,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Cory Neudorf asks that Saskatchewan not play Russian roulette with the Omicron COVID variant. Rahul Suryawanshi et al. find that any theory of…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Downturned cats.
Trump’s Stacked Supreme Court Emboldens the Fossil Fuelers
America’s fossil energy giants and their political minions have become really scrappy in their decades old fight to continue destroying our world. No longer do they seem to fear either…
A Funny Thing Happened on Thom Hartmann’s Radio Show
Progressive journalist and radio show host, Thom Hartmann, thought he’d dodged a bullet when he skirted a listener’s question whether Donald Trump is the Antichrist. Then his switchboard was flooded…
I Know You Don’t Want to Hear This. I’ll Keep It Brief.
How did we screw up this planet, our one and only, so thoroughly in just one lifetime? No, this isn’t about greenhouse gases or global warming. It’s about a new…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paul Kuodi et al. find some hopeful evidence that vaccinations may help to prevent long COVID symptoms as well as more acute…
Andrew Nikiforuk Takes Jordan Peterson to the Woodshed for a Damn Good Thrashing
I’m sure that quite a few of us have had our fill of the rightwing dandy and pompous git, Jordan Peterson. Recently JP attempted to revive his flagging celebrity with…