Oh Dear, the Institute of Hate.
(Remember, when you do the hand thing, keep the hand tilted a bit) They’re your typical radical right outfit – anti-immigrant, anti-vaxx, white nationalist/supremacy. And now the German government might…
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This Is No Party at All. Maxwell Stands Alone.
Chris Hedges thinks there are a few people missing at the Ghyslaine Maxwell trial: Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, hedge-fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, former New Mexico Bill Richardson, former…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Supriya Dwivedi writes about the Groundhog Day-style loop we’re trapped in due to a pandemic which is being allowed to continue and evolve.…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bruce Arthur examines what the spread of the Omicron COVID variant figures to mean for Ontario. Rachel Emmanuel reports on the National…
Really?
You know, a bad faith Twitter report will only result in me starting up the blog again. You sure that’s what you would like because I will unleash hell on…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian writes that even if the Omicron variant of COVID-19 doesn’t prove as dangerous as it appears, it should serve as a…
The Stench of Politicization. Sotomayor Calls Out the Stacked Deck US Supreme Court.
Chief Justice John Roberts says he doesn’t want the “Roberts Court” to be remembered as a political institution. Too bad, John. That horse has left the barn. Just as Congress…
Musical interlude
The Knocks feat. Powers – Classic
Get Out, Stay Out
An open letter signed by upwards of a hundred Canadian academics calls for the RCMP to leave Wet’suwet’en lands and not come back. The Wet’suwet’en lands are sovereign territory. The…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Philip Bump discusses how partisan resistance to public health measures is making it harder for the U.S. to count on vaccinations to limit…
Is America Just One Reichstag Fire Away?
There’s growing concern that Red State America, with the US Supreme Court acting in concert, may reverse Roe v. Wade and make it once again almost impossible for women to…
Tapped Out
While southern British Columbia is arse-deep in floodwater, California is tapped out. Water agencies in drought-stricken California that serve 27 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland won’t get any…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Deborah Gleeson discusses how inequality in vaccine availability is making new variants an inevitability, while Joseph Stiglitz and Lori Wallach write that…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Eric Topol writes that we have the public health tools at our disposal to overcome the Omicron COVID variant if our leaders are…
And a Very Merry Christmas to You Too, Gary
The Globe & Mail’s in-house Grinch, Gary Mason, delivers his own brand of Christmas Cheer. COVID-19 and its mutant iterations will be with us for some time, and possibly forever.…
Will the Arctic Bid Adieu to Snow?
It’s happening sooner, decades sooner, than anyone expected. Rain will replace snow as the Arctic’s most common precipitation as the climate crisis heats up the planet’s northern ice cap, according…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats at rest.
Conversion Therapy and Affirmative Therapy
Now that the LPC government has tabled Bill C-4, it's probably a good time to examine the two terms that are inevitably going to be argued about the most with…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Niels-Jakob Hansen and Rui Mano study the effect of mask mandates in saving tens of thousands of lives in the U.S. alone…
What Are They Playing At?
It’s new fighter time for the RCAF. There were three contenders short-listed: the latest F-18, the SAAB Gripen and Lockheed’s F-35. The F-18 was rejected. Apparently it doesn’t meet the…