Musical interlude
Dirty Vegas – 7 A.M.
Friday night: RIP JJ Cale
According to his bio at Wikipedia, JJ Cale was considering giving up the music business when Eric Clapton recorded After Midnight in 1970. Cale spent the next forty years writing…
rtod
This Revolutionary Thought of the Day brought to you by my abiding hero, Clarence Darrow. Darrow dismissed many of the remedial bandages that he and the labor movement had battled…
So I’ve Been Nominated –
Samara — a non-partisan group focused on involving more people into the political process — has nominated yours truly for its Everyday Political Citizen Project. As a young man of…
Harper’s Canada
Harper’s Canada
Calgary
Canada’s golden tar bubble
Toronto
Canada’s largest mayor, oh and he does crack.
Montreal
“Anyone who doesn’t think Montreal is one of the greatest cities in the world is clearly not from this planet!”
6300…It’s A Turtle; It’s A Hamburger
Oh my goodness check this out from the South China Morning Post via Ned Hepburn on deathandtaxesmag.com. The incident occurred on the morning of July 29, when a man, surnamed…
Detroit
If Detroit was a font it would be an abandoned Chevy
6299…Message To Premier Wynne
I know the right wing papers, the Suns, and the right wing talkers, CFRA, are all about the message that was sent to Premier Kathleen Wynne. Methinks they be interpreting…
Martin vs. Chrétien, redux?
Quote: At a Friday news conference, Ms. Wynne blamed her party’s poor showing on Mr. McGuinty…”Some of the political management of that issue was not what I would have wanted…
The Importance of "Fashionable Degrees in Sustainability"
Margaret Wente’s latest piece on energy is for the most part another boring and predicable rant about how “green energy” is too expensive. But the more interesting point is that…
Hell 2.3
Before I carry on with my exploration of Miriam Van Scott’s Encyclopedia of Hell, I wanted to note that I just got my copy of her other book – the…
United Airlines Wins "Gold" for Environment Work While Fighting Climate Action
Sigh. Airline giant United was named “Eco-Aviation Airline of the Year” today by the industry trade publication Air Transport World. This comes at the same time that United is being…
Glenn Beck: Reza Aslan is a "Phony Muslim"
More Comedy. Glenn Beck(The Idiot) is indeed an entertainer. “Glenn Beck whipped out his chalk board to connect Reza Aslan, the author who achieved internet fame this week for keeping…
Sometimes a Simple Graph Says It All – We’re Getting More Pessimistic With Each Generation
The Brookings Institute has undertaken a survey of economic values in America. The study also revealed that progressivism is far from extinct in the Land of Free Enterprise Capitalism. Despite…
Is Chrystia Freeland Progressive?
Chrystia Freeland, The Globe and Mail’s candidate in Toronto Centre, recently wrote a book about inequality (which I have not yet read) and is supposed to “bring fresh thinking to…
Basilio harbour station Venice
I did the bottom part, the buildings and water in Paper app. The watercolour brush is just too fussy to get a big flat wash, so I imported from photo…
Facade in Murano
In Murano, down the lane from the second Actv stop at Faro. A small cafe and a view of a small marble building. It was hot and blazing bright. Filed…