We’re All in Deep Scheisse
If the Republicans regain control of the Senate and/or the House in next year’s mid-terms or Trump reclaims the White House in 2024, the world is in deep scheisse. A…
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You Gotta Love It. Gary Mason Takes Scott Moe to the Woodshed
Saskatchewan premier, Scott Moe, has always struck me as – what’s the word I’m looking for? – a buffoon. It makes me wonder what sort of glue Saskatchewan voters are…
Things Won’t Change Before We Scream "Uncle"
I just read Gwynne Dyer’s preview of the COP 26 climate summit published on October 31 but written a few days earlier. Dyer panned the summit, concluding that beyond the…
Is Our Planet Overpopulated?
Is our planet overpopulated? The answer is plainly and resoundingly “yes.” It’s not the fact of overpopulation that’s contentious. It’s more a problem of how that fact is exploited, spun.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Helen Ward et al. discuss the work that needs to be done to respond to long COVID on a global scale, while…
Are you a Nikiforuk fan? Check this out.
Andrew Nikiforuk will be giving an address, “Energy Dead-Ends: Green Lies, Climate Change and Chaotic Transitions,” at the University of Victoria on Wednesday, November 17th, from 2 to 3:15 p.m.,…
A Picture to Sum Up COP 26
From The Guardian. There, don’t you feel better? The Guardian spoke with six negotiators working on the final statement. Their enthusiasm seems a bit underwhelming. #1 The world needs a…
I Remember. Too Well.
Since it’s Remembrance Day, here’s a photo of my dad – sans a few parts, well stitched together, taken outside an army hospital in England. He’s chomping on a cigar,…
A Few Thoughts On The Rittenhouse Trial
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is a farce. A travesty, and potentially will end up being one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in history (and not just US history,…
Never Let Treason Go Unpunished. You’ll Regret It Later.
America is living with the consequences of a failure that dates back to 1865, when Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, sat down across from Union general, Ulysses S. Grant, to…
Tom Friedman and the Great Climate Paradox
The New York Times columnist, Tom Friedman, has attended most of the climate summits over the past quarter century, Glasgow included. The big change he found this year is younger…
Afghanistan. There Was Never Anything to Save.
Our 20 year fool’s errand. The country’s last finance minister before the Taliban return has given an interview to BBC. Khalid Payenda says his country fell, not to the Taliban,…
The Framework Convention Fails. Not Enough Nails.
The Glasgow climate summit, COP 26, or, as Prince Charles called it, our “Last Chance Saloon,” has lived up to none of the hype. There’ll be no Kumbaya moment. If…
This is why we can’t have even minimally acceptable things
Here we go again. And somehow, the latest round of hysteria includes the Cons learning nothing from the failure of their attacks on coalitions or other forms of inter-party cooperation…
Monbiot, It’s Our Only Chance – Make Extreme Wealth Extinct.
Guardian eco-scribe, George Monbiot, writes that the ultra rich will be our ruin unless we get them first. Most of our dysfunctions are caused by pandering to the rich. The…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Festive cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Bruce Arthur offers a reminder that we know perfectly well how to limit the damage done by COVID-19 as long as a…
There’s Heat and Then There’s Wet Bulb 35
With today’s report from the Washington Post that many of the estimates submitted to the UN have significantly understated greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 24 per cent, the…
The Globe’s "O’Toole Paradox"
The Globe editorial board is giddy at how Tory backbenchers have gotten, “out from under the thumb of domineering party leaders who view them as little more than biotic voting…