Rewriting History
We Canadians just love believing fictions about ourselves especially when they allow us to climb up on high and sneeringly look down on others from a position of perceived superiority.Well…
Perils Of Pragmatism
A pretty disappointing end to the American debt ceiling fight. Despite consistent polling that showed overwhelming support for raising taxes on the rich- as well as the GOP taking more…
Efficacy
Efficacy, a photo by lunchbreath on Flickr.
The July 2011 Traffic
Top 10 posts for July 2011, as decided by Bond Papers readers: Trade talks with Europeans = “doing back-room deal with a bunch of serial rapists” Forecasting the fall Skinner…
False nostalgia
Summer time is nostalgia time! Alltop is nostalgic about tomorrow!
"A sugar-coated Satan sandwich": this is the best the Democrats can come up with?
It seems strange to me a 'Socialist' president has capitulated almost totally to a right wing tea party bunch of thugs. Doesn't Obama know this will only double down the…
This Is A Better Idea?
There are many around the world who are resting easier this morning. But Paul Krugman isn't one of them. He writes that the deal which President Obama reached with congressional…
Pam Geller’s faulty memory-hole
Now you see it, now you don’t. Alert reader beluga2 notes that the scrofulous owner of Atlas Shrugged has been doing a little further self-editing since her excision of a…
The Failure of Political Leadership – Part 2
The other day I wrote a brief post called The Failure of Political Leadership, inspired by what is quickly becoming a national embarrassment for the City of Toronto in its…
A Week Without Fossil Fuels
Woodland Caribou Provincial Park is a wilderness park located between Red Lake, Ontario and the Manitoba border. As Ontario’s 5th largest provincial park, covering 1.2 million acres (that’s 486,235 hectares)…
Paul Krugman Versus Bob Rae, Or …
How I Accidentally Deliberated The Problem Of Ellipses.On Friday, the Jurist over at Accidental Deliberations had an interesting post. Titled "Juxtaposition", it simply presented two quotes and a brief comment.…
Clemens vs. Clemens
Jason Clemens, who hangs his hat at several right-wing think-tanks (the Fraser, Pacific Research and Macdonald-Laurier Institutes), lauds Canadian fiscal conservatism in today’s Wall Street Journal: Canada’s government, for example,…
Gay Teens More Likely To Be Homeless
One in four GLBT high school students in Massachusetts are classified as homeless, according to a new study from the Children’s Hospital Boston, published in the American Journal of Public…
Sliding a sheet of paper, NDP version
The New Democrats announced a couple of policy planks last week for the general election campaign. Well, sort of announced. The party’s news release says that leader Lorraine Michael announced…
Canada’s government has experienced shrinkage?
At least according to the Wall Street Journal. “Why Canada is beating America” is a concept I imagine is rarely pondered south of the border, primarily because in that…
Now, I Think I Understand Why Obama Ran as A Democrat
Yep, Orwell’s Bastard has it right. I will go further in guessing that President Obama is not just a wimpocrat, he’s actually a Rethuglican who only became a wimpocrat, probably…
Krugman: The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling – NYTimes.com
The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.comOK, can we do a couple of things for starters?1. Lose the illusion that Obama's got any balls, or that he's in any…
Enforced relaxation
It's amazing how long I can spend sitting on a dock staring out at a lake. I suspect Irene will find this a bit disconcerting, but I could almost get…
Credit rating agencies as courts of international finance
As I am writing this, President Obama announced a deal to avoid default on US government debt. If lawyers think in terms of courts, then what would be the legal…