Why Canada is doing much better than the U.S.
From today’s New York Times. Short version: • Canada has public health care • Canadian hospitals are publicly managed and coordinated • Canada has had effective leadership that works cooperatively,…
Musings
Cemetery
Went for a long bike ride and visited one of our local cemeteries.
Gordie, two years
Miss you.
Apology by Kristin Raworth
Kristin Rayworth is a woman who works for the Alberta government and who used to follow me on Twitter. About two years ago, Rayworth publicly tweeted at me that she…
Rubbing us the wrong way
…Rob Anders is still doing so. I am told this is legit. Any takers?
My latest: oppositional
Being in Opposition is never fun. Being in Opposition during a pandemic is even worse. Power and no power: in one job, you get to answer questions, and everyone listens…
Too much sadness
Abbigail Cowbrough, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, playing the bagpipes in honor of the victims of the Nova Scotia massacre, just a few days ago on HMCS Fredericton. She herself was…
#TBT
#TBT: me and Rockin’ Al, upon my call to the bar in 1989. (The legal bar. Not the other kind.)
My top ten albums. Now stop tagging me.
I keep getting tagged by people – including Emma Kinsella – about this top ten albums thing. To save you and me some time, here are all of them, in…
Pandemic video: Miss You
I saw a pandemic-time video Nick Lowe did with his son and I loved it. Just the two of them, playing in their living room. Was awesome. So, I decided…
This fellow is a genius
Six words. Brilliant.
Danke schoen, fraulein
Hadn’t heard anything from the She-Wolf of the Clueless in a while. Went to check, saw something that simply made my day.
Lysol: now available without a prescription!
My contribution here: And here’s my fave: And here’s some of the best of the Internet! More to come!
Take a shot of Lysol, chew two lightbulbs, and call me in the morning
For those of you who don’t believe Trump suggested curing the coronavirus by shooting up with bleach: pic.twitter.com/91vpdOXWWp — Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 23, 2020
If you do a three during a pandemic, and there’s no one around to see it, is it still a three?
The still of concentration. An earthquake of excellence hits. And then – the shot! A shot so powerful, so precise, it blows off some of the fasteners on the net!…
United States of Trump
Behold the face of Trump’s America. https://t.co/isoiNU0Cx4 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 22, 2020
Trudeau popularity way, way up
Here. I suspect Donald Trump is making him look pretty darn good, in comparative terms. But by all means, keep singing the praises of Trump, dumb Canadian conservatives.