One has to hand it to the Americans. They seem endlessly inventive when it comes to devising new ways to inflict mayhem. However, while the following is legal in 48 states, I am sorry to inform those who love to embrace new technology that this stand-in for Fido would likely run
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Politics and its Discontents: More On Ulmar Zameer
H/t Graeme MacKay Yesterday’s post highlighted the rush to judgement many people embraced when Ulmar Zameer was charged with murdering a police officer. People like Doug Ford, John Tory and Patrick Brown condemned the fact that he was granted bail. A publication ban prevented the reasons for the bail from
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Look Before You Speak
It is obviously just human nature to sometimes react with outrage and certitude when confronted with something that seems to beggar common sense. We have likely all experienced such a response at one time or another. The recent acquittal of Ulmar Zameer, charged with murdering a police officer, is an
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: They Sing As One.
Quite predictably, the rich have reacted with great bitterness to the new budget, in particular the part requiring them to pay more tax on capital gains that exceed $250 thousand. To hear their tune, sung in unison, financial Armageddon is upon the country. A chorus of Canadian entrepreneurs and investors
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Perhaps They’ll Ease Their Pain With A Free Cup Of Coffee?
Well, Tim Horton’s has done it again – disappointed their customers. Of course, that’s nothing new, but I’m not referring here to the mediocre coffee that is inexplicably a national icon. Nor am I referencing their disturbing and bizarre forays into food innovations they have no business experimenting with. There
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More About Doug The Slug
In my previous post, I wrote rather scathingly of Doug Ford and his refusal to put back into the building code a requirement for new home builds to have a plug built in to facilitate EV chargers. To clarify any confusion left by that post, the extra $500 charge to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Curse Of News Literacy
There are some days I almost wish I weren’t a newspaper reader. That way I wouldn’t be confronted daily with the world’s stupidity and perhaps not constantly haunted by a jaundiced view of humanity. In my previous post I wrote at some length about the buffoonery that defines the Doug Ford
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Small Minds And Big Power
It will probably come as no surprise to regular readers of this blog that I have a rather low opinion of our species. There are too many small-minded people thinking they are the smartest people in the room, reflecting the classic Dunning-Krueger effect. Nothing can be done about this reality,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On This Eclipse Day
The crazed populist and evangelical set is trumpeting today’s eclipse as yet another indicator of the end times. Marjorie Taylor Greene, never one to pass up an opportunity to display her moronic mentality, had this to say: … the firebrand Republican congresswoman raised eyebrows with a tweet: “God is sending
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: "The Trumpiest Story Of All Time"?
Maybe. Maybe not, since there is still more time until the end of time. Nonetheless, the following story does seem to suggest that there is no end to the unbridled gall of Don Trump and, undoubtedly, it will probably be fully supported by the MAGA crowd who, we are told,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Truly, Irredeemably Bad
I take this blog seriously. In it, I try to offer informed aggregation and commentary, and hope that I am never needlessly cruel or uncouth. However, in order to make the point that American politics has clearly entered a new phase in its embrace of the theatre of the absurd,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I Am At A Loss For Words
Some days, I truly despair, and words fail me. “He’s definitely been chosen by God,” said Marie Zere, a commercial real estate broker from Long Island who attended the Conservative Political Action Conference in February outside Washington, D.C. “He’s still surviving even though all these people are coming after him,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Hits Keep Coming
No doubt the PP crowd on the West Coast is all abuzz over the fact that they will soon enjoy his presence as part of his Axe The Tax tour. No word yet as to whether will be musical accompaniment, but Michael de Adder has some ‘sound ‘ideas in that regard:
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I’m Sure It Is All Very Innocent
On the ‘contradictory’ relationship PP has with corporate lobbyists: H/t trapdinawrpool.bsky.social Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For Your Consideration
In a time when reflexive rather than reflective responses are elicited by some of our politicians, a little food for thought from Patrick Corrigan. Axe the tax, spike the hike, bring it home and other such mindless slogans may never be quite the same again. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The High Price Of Populism
In this age of economic deprivation for so many, it is understandable that people seek relief wherever they can find it. Some do without, some shop at discount stores, some take second jobs. Unfortunately, some embrace whomever seems to be offering a helping hand. Here in Ontario, that ‘helping’ hand
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Donald Trump: Can I Get a Big Amen?
From the theatre of the absurd comes Donald Trump’s latest scam. He will be getting royalties from this special edition Bible. Truly, we are in The End Times. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Kevin O’Leary Takedown
John Stewart – love the guy. Kevin O’Leary – detest the guy. Blowhards have always rubbed me the wrong way. Happily, the two diametrically opposed personages are together in the following video. Spoiler alert: John Stewart wins as he exposes O’Leary’s venality and hypocrisy, traits that seem endemic amongst “his
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The History American Politicians Try To Keep Hidden
I have done a great deal of reading in the past couple of years on The Civil War, slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow laws that followed it, Black Codes, and the mythology of The Lost Cause. An obvious and irrefutable conclusion to be drawn is that America is a racist
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Mr. Mulroney’s Legacy
Willy Loman – Death of A Salesman Brian Mulroney – Late Canadian Salesman In a previous post, I discussed what I considered to be one of the shortcomings of the late prime minister, Brian Mulroney: his essential shallowness. But it is the damage many say he did to this country
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