things we saw from the road, mostly lies
Billboards seen on the highways between St. Louis, Tulsa, and Kansas City. Lies about pregnancy"Heartbeat heard 18 days after conception"This is the most frequently-seen lie on all the highway signs.…
us regression
things we saw from the road, mostly lies
Billboards seen on the highways between St. Louis, Tulsa, and Kansas City. Lies about pregnancy"Heartbeat heard 18 days after conception"This is the most frequently-seen lie on all the highway signs.…
greg palast: trump lost — and our most hallowed media didn’t tell us
Allan recently shared with me a sobering piece by Greg Palast. It illustrates so much of what is wrong with both the US's fake electoral system and the major media.…
in which i scour the internet for signs of resistance and wonder if anyone is organizing a general strike
Where is the resistance? My question is not "where is the outrage, why is no one resisting," and so forth.There is always resistance. I know it's out there. It must…
thoughts about what’s happening in the u.s.
I haven't been able to write anything coherent about what's happening in the US. All I have is a jumble of disconnected thoughts and emotions. Mostly I push them aside,…
what i’m reading: prequel by rachel maddow
As I wrote in my last post, there were two relatively new nonfictions that I wanted to make sure I read this year. I wrote about Doppelganger: A Trip Into…
what i’m reading: doppelganger by naomi klein
There were two nonfiction books in my 2024 reading plan that I wanted to get in by the end of the year. I usually read great nonfiction long after the…
the reaction to a murder: this is why we must protect and expand public health care
Discussion and debate about health care is a staple in Canadian politics and the culture at large. The adjective most often applied to the system is used so frequently, it…
my post-election venting copied from facebook
This post says nothing new or original or the slightest bit interesting. I just want to preserve what I've been posting on Facebook* over the last week.I'm going in order…
rtod: "what makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed"
Revolutionary thought of the day: "What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion…
u.s. voting, "trump is a symptom," genocide, and reality: further thoughts
image: self-righteousness and left activismYesterday I wrote about, among other things, why Americans should vote Democrat despite their very obvious shortcomings, blindspots, corrupt partisanship, militarism, support for the Israeli apartheid…
elections: here some relief, there… only fear
I rarely -- almost never -- write about politics anymore, either Canadian or US. But of course the upcoming US election is weighing heavily on my mind, as it surely…
the end of roe: a day we expected for so long still has the power to shock and stun us
We’ve been expecting this for 20 years. More than forty years of anti-abortion legislation, escalating every year and every decade, then Trump, then finally, the leaked draft. So I thought…
rebecca traister, 2019: "our fury over abortion was dismissed for decades as hysterical"
Rebecca Traister, writing in New York magazine in 2019: Which is why I am almost as mad at many on the left, theoretically on the side of reproductive rights and…
the end of roe and how we got here
With the unprecedented leak of the SCOTUS draft brief, and official confirmation of the politicization of the Court, we see the final nails pounded in Roe v. Wade — a…
fact: you cannot wave the confederate flag or the swastika flag and rightly call yourself a patriotic american
This post has been half-written and sitting in drafts for many months. Days after an armed mob tried to violently subvert the results of an election seems like a good…
all eyes on the united states: election day and beyond: the dark side laid bare
Election day in the U.S. tomorrow. My American family and friends are all quietly freaking out. The whole world is quietly freaking out. The massive turnout through mail-in voting and…
"fine. biden. but this is bullshit."
I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: Donald Trump is the single greatest gift the Democratic Party could ever hope to receive. The Democrats have finally achieved their most…
11 (more) things on my mind about the protests in the u.s.
In April, I wrote a post called “11 things on my mind about the anti-police-violence and anti-racism protests“. For reasons unknown to me, it’s one of the most widely-read posts…
11 things on my mind about the anti-police-violence and anti-racism protests
1. Most violence is not being committed by protesters. What percentage of protesters are violent? Filter for police provocateurs, filter for white nationalists, filter for random thieves hiding under cover…