Blue Skies, Nothing But Blueskies…
Enshittification is a delightful neologism coined by author Cory Doctrow in 2022 to describe how things decline in quality and service. While it initially meant to describe how vendors would…
Musings
When I’m 64…
Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? When I’m sixty four… it seemed cutely remote to consider being that old when the Beatles sang “When I’m Sixty-Four”…
My latest: no way, USA!
In October 1988, the Liberal Party started running an election ad in French about a free trade deal with the United States: “There’s just one line that’s getting in the…
John
My girlfriend Paula Christison had been over, and we’d been studying, then watching something on the little black and white TV we had. My Carleton roommate, Lee G. Hill, was…
my latest: Saturday people, Sunday people
On Google, the listing for the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, now says: “Temporarily closed.” But that’s not quite true, is it? It’s closed for good. At 4:10 a.m.…
Fourteen reasons
Fourteen reasons why we need to stop violence against women. • Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student • Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student • Nathalie Croteau (born…
A bit of good news
Good news. As of tonight, Republicans will hold a narrow 219-215 majority in the U.S. House (the narrowest since the 1930s), and it will become even narrower in the months…
Roxy
Roxy was her name. Before I even met her, that was her name. She was a black lab and boxer mix, and a rescue. I drove out to Woodstock with…
And voters get what they deserve
Why do so many think democracy is eternal? Why do they think we are in an enlightened age? It isn’t. We aren’t.
A mini-documentary on 2024, 40 years ahead of its time.
http://warrenkinsella.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/69196eae49384a91b1bb1e11e51bce11.mp4
My latest: war is declared – on us
Trump Tax™️. President-elect Donald Trump may call it a “tariff,” but essentially that is what he is promising to impose on his first day in office: a tax. “Tariff” comes…
Trump declares war on Canuckistan
Interest rate cuts: over. Rates up to save CAD: likely. 65¢ dollar: yep. Consumer spending choked off: unavoidable. Big layoffs: ditto. Alberta oil (#1 export): crushed. Welcome to a world…
My latest: Trudeau is beyond redemption
In ‘Lee,’ Kate Winslet’s new movie about the celebrated World War II photojournalist Lee Miller, the descent into the heart of darkness is slow, but it is always the destination.…