Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Bush discusses how the latest wave of COVID-19 would have been entirely avoidable if we hadn’t allowed corporate interests to suppress vaccine…
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There’s Your Problem or How Covid Wins.
It’s a Covid Rogues Gallery. Arizona, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota and Montana. All of those states have banned or blocked vaccine mandates.…
Is This Our Warning to Change While We Can?
The Atlantic has an article “Climate Change Is Going to Be Gross.” It’s about the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul, and the mysterious appearance of something called “sea snot.” Marmara…
An Army of Damaged Minds
They’ve been around for years. Some of them might be your neighbours, colleagues perhaps even friends. However it took a pandemic to bring many of them out of the closet…
Musical interlude
Flight Facilities feat. Broods – Forever
A Blast from Both Barrels
I had forgotten all about Alpha. It turns out there are three Covid variants – Alpha, Delta, and Omicron. The bad news is that some people may contract more than…
Better late than never
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the running joke in Saskatchewan politics was that whatever NDP leader Ryan Meili pushed for, Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government could be counted…
The Decade of "Climate Departure"
Several years ago the climate department at the University of Hawaii released a paper warning of a phenomenon they called “climate departure” that would begin to set in during the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kai Kupferschmidt reports on the recognition among scientists around the globe that the Omicron COVID variant is almost certain to precipitate another major…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Wallace-Wells discusses the alarming warning indicators from our still-developing understanding of the Omicron COVID variant. Nazeem Muhajarine writes about the importance…
NYT – Has America Passed Democracy’s Tipping Points? Finis?
Times columnist Thomas Edsall writes that the United States may have parted company with democracy – for good. I think, at some level, most of us already realize this. Political…
Something to Chew On – Mexico Taps Out
It’s funny how much good information can be gleaned from the London Review of Books. Cape Town resident, Rosa Lyster, has penned an essay about the fresh water crisis she…
Some Numbers Can Be Jarring
By now we should be old hands at dealing with Covid. We’ve lived through the ebb and flow of what, four waves now, maybe five? We play the odds. It…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mark Lipsitch et al. examine the current state of knowledge about COVID breakthrough infections and the public health measures still needed to avoid…
What Will We Do When They Want Us to Pay For What We Have Done?
The climate emergency has hit even the affluent nations hard but that doesn’t compare to what has befallen the ultimate victims of two centuries of industrialization, the Third World. The…
Something to Chew On – Drought
When we think of the climate breakdown it’s usually in the context of what the media covers. The Fraser Valley floods are one example. The highways that were swept away…
Meet Kelly Tshibaka, Trump’s Pick for Alaska
She’s pro-Trump. She’s anti-McConnell. And she’s hoping to bump off incumbent Lisa Murkowski in the primaries for the Republican senate nomination for Alaska. She is Kelly Tshibaka (not sure if…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Relaxed cats.
They’re Organized. They’re Smart. The Proud Boys Storm Back.
The Proud Boys, America’s would-be Brown Shirts, are taking a page out of resistance movements’ play book. Today the D.C. Attorney-General filed a civil lawsuit against the Proud Boys and…
Factory Workers in Mayfield Forced to Stay at Their Jobs
They heard the tornado sirens. They wanted to leave. They were told they would be fired if they didn’t stay put. Several lost their lives. As a catastrophic tornado approached…