Trump Tries Coup, Fails, Gets Twitter Ban Finally
It took almost 2 days following the attack on the US Capital by GOP terrorists, but Twitter banned the ring leader Trump from their platform, after first only giving a…
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Rescuing Plato, Rescuing Ourselves
Despite the fact that Western civilization (sic) has greatly venerated and virtually worshipped the ancients of Greece and Rome, in reality, they had little to offer in terms of philosophy.…
Plague Update: SK Party’s Predictable Conservative Hypocrisy
One of my least favourite Sask Party cabinet ministers (for him closing STC Bus service) is in hot water after going to California during the pandemic. He’s legally required to…
Weather Alert Dismantling
Write your MP and the weather office now please. you’re not going to like this but Environment Canada has decided to break the Weather Alert feature for the entire Toronto…
Plague Update: Good News, Bad News
First, the bad news. The Conservatives in power in Alberta and Ontario are just the worst hypocrites. They told people not to travel, which was the correct advice, but then…
Germany’s pandemic recovery has a direct effect on Alberta
It is rare for the Province of Alberta to feel the effects of a policy decision made by the German Federal Government. However, it is clear that over the next…
Plague Update: Ford’s Failings Match Every Conservative Province
Like many Conservative run provinces, Ontario is facing a slow motion disaster in the second wave. The stalwart “Resistance” Premiers, opposed to a carbon tax, also show their disdain for…
Plague Update: Racists Rally Against Science
Could you imagine being Dr. Shahab right now?After standing alongside @PremierScottMoe through this health crisis and then following a racist attack, Moe refuses to condemn the attack by pussyfooting around…
Can Art Survive the Internet? | TVO.org
Can art survive the internet? Can artists make it in the world of free that’s enabled by it? Author William Deresiewicz explains why those are urgent questions, before, during and…
A Biblical Story of the Concentration of Wealth During a Disaster
Today I find myself thinking about a story in Genesis 47:13 – 26. It is the story of a famine in Egypt. I’ll share the text from the Bible, and…
Plague Update: Saskatchewan Descends As Faithful Cheer On The Coming Darkness
Saskatchewan has COVID-19 getting out of hand. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/27/canada-prairies-coronavirus-alberta-saskatchewan-manitoba In light of the shocking, disturbing behavior of a former politically-appointed chair of Sask health region, compounded by fact it's being directed…
A State of the World Address (In under two minutes)
It seems to me that the ecological crisis is at a critical stage, as is the war on democracy, with the billionaires and corporations having taken over the planet, and…
Plague Update: Moe Lied, People Died
In short, they lied. Premier Moe is a damned dirty liar, and people are dying as a result.#COVID19SK https://t.co/X6jyZPjgKP — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) November 26, 2020 Yet his death…
We’ve Seen It All Before
“ are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against…
Plague Update: Moe More Restaurant Dining
While skirting the household gathering limit, the Sask Premier was exposed to COVID-19 in PA. The irony of Scott Moe being exposed to covid at a restaurant days after encouraging…
A New Social Contract: The Parable of the Happy Kingdom
A brief preamble: The old social contract, the last social contract, has clearly broken down. That was the New Deal, which was a compromise between the business elite and the…
Compromise or Collapse
The elite always do the same thing. They have repeated the same failed patterns for millennia. They never learn. They could be wealthy and powerful, virtually in perpetuity, or at…
Are We Serious About Human Health? The Rhetoric and Gestures Say Yes, But The Evidence Says No
The government pretends to care deeply and profoundly about human health, using police state measures in a time of crisis, justified by their supposed great concern for health. Yet, the…
Plague Update: Sociopathy Of Contemporary Conservativism
A certainly level of sociopathy has become endemic to the conservative movements throughout North America and I think it is based on a lot of pent up anger that their…
Who’s Side Are You On?
It is very easy to not see the forest for the trees. In fact, it is nearly universal. For example, it took millenia before people broadly began to question whether…