Musical interlude II
One more tune to end 2021 – wishing all the best to readers in the new year. Counting Crows – A Long December
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The Case For (and Against) Blue and Red State America Going Their Separate Ways
The Washington Post is wrapping up 2021 with a look at why Blue and Red State America may need to part company and all the obstacles that stand in their…
Review: Four Thousand Weeks
An anti-productivity book, of sorts. In most books that are either directly or indirectly about how we individually make use of our time, the goal is to enable the reader…
Musical interlude
Riton X Raye – I Don’t Want You
Review: Four Thousand Weeks
An anti-productivity book, of sorts. In most books that are either directly or indirectly about how we individually make use of our time, the goal is to enable the reader…
Betty White. Dead Just Weeks Short of 100.
Betty White dead at 99. I never met anyone who didn’t like her.
More Good News on Omicron
I think we’ve all seen the pictures of crowded ICU wards full of patients intubated on ventilators as doctors and nurses try to keep them alive. We saw that with…
Rolling Stone’s New Years Eve Missive
I never expected Rolling Stone magazine to close out 2021 with an “end is nigh” message but these are curious times. The headline couldn’t be more dramatic: “The Fuse is…
All She Can Do Now Is Sing
Sammy “the Bull” Gravano openly admits he personally murdered the better part of a dozen guys and participated in many other killings. Did he get the chair? No. Is he…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Dan Diamond reports on the shortage of health care workers as the fifth wave of COVID crests in the U.S., while Carl O’Donnell…
Dr. Henry’s Happy New Year. "We Are Going to Get To That Place" or The Gift of Omicron
British Columbia’s medical officer of health, Dr. Bonnie Henry, thinks the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus could transform the contagion from pandemic to endemic. “The way the virus is…
An American Fears for His Country
CNN analyst, Bill Carter, like many of his countrymen, sees his United States broken, perhaps irreparably. Carter has seen America bruised and battered from the Kennedy assassination to the Viet…
Is America Turning Us Into Nervous Nellies?
Let’s face it, from Tea Partiers to QAnon to fundamentalist faux-Christians to heavily armed thugs who see nothing wrong with storming their nation’s Capitol Building, a lot of our neighbours…
Even For the Beebs, This Is Bizarre. Dershowitz and the BBC.
What were they thinking? When the BBC was looking for an expert to provide a little colour commentary on the Gyslaine Maxwell trial, the very last name on their list…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Wood and Mary Louise Kelly write that we still need to be managing COVID risk budgets to avoid contributing more to…
Left to Their Own Devices or Learning to Thrive Without America
Leaders of the Middle East may be rewriting their region’s history and, in the process, busting the myths of the West as their benefactor. The decline of American influence in…
Karen – The Handmaiden of Decline
Readers of this blog will be familiar with my outsize focus on social cohesion and its role in societal collapse. A friend recently posted a video of an irate American…
BC Closes Out the Year With Another Climate Blow
It’s been a tough year for British Columbians. Extremes of heat and cold, drought and floods. Heat so intense it killed off billions of sea creatures, the sort that anchor…