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…
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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…
"Social Murder" – How the Wealthy and Politically Connected are Engineering Ecological Collapse
Why do our governments, elected to office by ordinary citizens, abet those who would harm us? Chris Hedges accuses them of “social murder.” It’s mass murder. The global catastrophe that…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Anthony Fernandez-Castaneda et al. examine the long-term neurological and cognitive damage caused even by “mild” cases of COVID. Sally Cutler discusses the implications…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Katherine Wu warns that the worst of the Omicron COVID wave may happen even after case counts have peaked as continued spread…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Stanford discusses how Canada’s COVID response has been slanted toward handouts to corporations and demands of workers – and increasingly so as…
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Glass Animals – Heat Waves
Justice Corrupted, Right Out in the Open
During his presidency, Donald Trump set out to thoroughly corrupt the US Supreme Court by stacking the bench with reliable, hard right justices, people who could be counted on to…
David Brooks Sees a Nation Falling Apart at the Seams
NYT columnist, David Brooks, writes that American society has run amok. Brooks opens with stats. In 2020 Americans drove 13 per cent less yet fatalities rose 7 per cent. In…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Katherine Wu calls out the wishful thinking (and deliberate neglect) behind any attempt to brand the Omicron COVID variant as “mild”. Evelyn Lazare…
NASA – It’s Going to be Bad, But We Can Still Make It So Much Worse
NASA is predicting more extreme weather events, more and hotter heat waves, more intense rainfall, more coastal floodings – pretty much the worst year we’ve endured, only worse. And the…
Have We Come Unhinged?
Can someone explain the rules to me? The rules about cultural appropriation. I get it, some of it. White actors should not perform roles for native characters. Makes sense. Ditto…
Are House Democrats Throwing In the Towel?
They struggled to wrest control of the House of Representatives from the Republicans but, with mid-terms still months away, their optimism is fading. Many blame it on the toxic work…