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…
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…
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…
Cowboy Junkies – White Sail
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Downturned cats.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…