On voluntary efforts
The past few days have seen the emergence of an effort to build up self-reporting capacity to fill in where provincial governments are choosing to be wilfully blind to COVID…
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Rumours of Coups
I’m getting weary of the recent deluge of articles and op-eds about secessionism in America, nascent civil war, violent unrest. Then I came across a piece in today’s Guardian written…
The Buffalo Commons
In a world riveted to violent natural catastrophes – hurricanes and tornadoes, floods and droughts, heatwaves and wildfires – slower moving calamities are easily overlooked. Canadians don’t dwell on the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CTV reports on Alberta Health Services’ recognition that tens of thousands of the province’s residents project to suffer from long COVID. Alex McKeen…
Everyday America
Somber talk for New Years Day. The editorial board of the New York Times paints a picture of a republic in peril. Jan. 6 is not in the past; it…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ryan Cooper highlights the reasons to be careful about any COVID minimizers seeking to declare the Omicron variant as too mild to…
Tick-Tock. One in Three Americans Say Violence Against Their Government Can Be Justified.
Pretty heavy stuff, the idea of taking up arms against your government. Actually you can find some form of armed resistance be it a full-blown civil war, an insurgency, a…
Four Science Types on What We Learned in 2021 Across the West.
2021 was a pivotal year for the climate emergency. The change came in the form of hammer blows that smashed the west – drought, killer heat domes, wildfires, massive flooding.…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your year. – Alex McKeen discusses the implications of the more transmissible Omicron COVID variant – though contrary to the plans of your local murderclown, we…
Musical interlude II
One more tune to end 2021 – wishing all the best to readers in the new year. Counting Crows – A Long December
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…