Sketchies
A collection of loose ideas from #ldnont during the slow dog-days of August. We don’t find any humour in guns and bullets.
Notes from the American Resistance: Hanging on by their fingernails
I realized today how prescient our Canadian leaders have been. Months ago, both Trudeau and Carney told us that Trump has turned the United States into an unworthy and untrustworthy…
Danielle Smith and her ministers burrow deeper into their self-dug book-ban and bargaining holes
Premier Danielle Smith and her education and finance ministers spent much of the day yesterday digging themselves deeper into the holes they started with their it’s-not-a-book-ban ban on books and…
Musical interlude
TWO LANES - No Feeling Is Final
Knee Surgery, 9
Well, I have a whole new set of exercises, most of which come with a pain factor increase, but nothing that seems to make any great leap forward in either…
WAKE UP
Those are the opening words to Spike Lee’s Fight The Power, one of the most important movies ever made. It’s about racist hate and violence, and how quickly it can…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Daniel Ziblatt writes about the dismal history of past efforts to collaborate and negotiate with authoritarians. And Stuart Benson discusses how Mark Carney's lack…
Richard Lloyd plus some geriatric punks!
Come by! I’ll buy you a drink!
Today’s News: The tariff wars are getting real and its going to be a shitstorm
As a non-economist, I have found the constant on-again off-again tariff battles of the last seven months to be very confusing. But it seems like Trump's so-called tariff strategy has…
No Margaret Atwood, please! We’re Albertan!
Thanks to Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides’ book ban, it looks as if the work of iconic Canadian author Margaret Atwood is on a list of books to be stripped from…
Finance minister to Albertans: Oh no! Bigger deficit! But we’ll come up with a plan to steer through the storm!
Was it mere coincidence Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner released an unhappy statement saying the province’s projected budget deficit will be $1.3 billion bigger than what he promised in last…
Historical Mythology – WWII: The Anti-Fascist War
As we watch the direction the American Trump regime is taking today we are seeing a lot of commentary and memes referencing how the allies went to war against German…
Historical Mythology – WWII: The Anti-Fascist War
As we watch the direction the American Trump regime is taking today we are seeing a lot of commentary and memes referencing how the allies went to war against German…
CBC and CPC Disinforming Public on EVs
I’m hesitant to share this video link. The problem is, someone might watch it, and not realize everything she says is untrue. This problem is amplified by the CBC not…
Amerika: Truths Its People Refuse To Acknowledge
The following was sent to me by a friend, and, set in hard relief against other countries, it defines its true nature.“AMERICA IS A GUN” by Brian BilstonEngland is a…
Amerika: Truths Its People Refuse To Acknowledge
The following was sent to me by a friend, and, set in hard relief against other countries, it defines its true nature.“AMERICA IS A GUN” by Brian BilstonEngland is a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Don Moynihan concludes that the U.S. has lost any pretense to being a functioning democracy. And Zachary Beau discusses how Donald Trump is…
Not Strategy but Symptoms
So, things are a mess. But here's an interesting take on Trump from Andrew Wortman: "Trump's 2 a.m. meltdowns and dictator cosplay aren't part of a predetermined strategy--they're collapse. A…
Not Strategy but Symptoms
So, things are a mess. But here's an interesting take on Trump from Andrew Wortman: "Trump's 2 a.m. meltdowns and dictator cosplay aren't part of a predetermined strategy--they're collapse. A…
Today’s News: Poilievre is just an embarrassment, isn’t he
What a goof!First the Crowfoot boy Poilievre is complaining about how Carney makes "big promises without any action" and he picks the Port of Churchill development as an example:Asked about…