Yes, I know we could write a book, but essentially what is wrong with the Internet is the way we use it. The public changed has the way it uses the Internet to the benefit of a few monopoly tech companies and those that want to spread disinformation because laziness
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Politics and its Discontents: The Noble And The Depraved
Most nights, after watching a half-hour of American news, my presence at the dinner table is suffused with cynicism and disgust. Tales of violence, savagery and complete disregard for other people depicted nightly will do that to a person. However, occasionally amidst all of the mayhem, a light emerges and
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ed Broadbent discusses how economic equality is a precondition to freedom for the majority of the population. Chris McGreal reviews Angus Deaton’s book on the role of the corporatist assumptions of economists in fomenting a war on the poor. And John McDonnell warns that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: War And The Spineless Ontario NDP
Terrible. Stiles caved to pressure from an Apartheid government currently engaged in acts of genocide during a war escalated by a terrorist attack by Hamas. Stiles doesn’t want an MPP willing to speak out against a foreign government openly waging an asymmetrical war in response to a terrorist attack. Having
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Sliding Saskatchewan
Talked briefly with an NDP MLA after the vote today. He wants to find common ground with his political opposition, but how do you when they're hell bent on taking away kid's rights?#skpoli — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) October 21, 2023 The hateful SaskParty got their way. They’re copying other
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He’s lying about the impetus for the hateful Parental Bill of Rights that he’s (illegally) using to cancel Charter Rights of children. Almost unbelievable, now according to the Minister it's starting to sound like all this is sour grapes & petty payback for electing a progressive board in Regina Public?
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Scott Moe is “Perplexed”
That’s a fancy word for insincerely idiotic. If Premier Moe listened to CBC radio or had staff who did to explain it to him, he'd not sound like a perplexed GD maroon all the time. That's just a theory, he could be too stupid.https://t.co/3j0o5xNSCU #skpoli — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy)
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Somasetty Suresh examines the symptoms associated with long COVID, while Elizabeth Cooney reports on new research hinting at the depletion of peripheral serotonin as one of its causes. And Jamie Ducharme points out that the CDC (and other public health authorities) still has
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Speaker Now And Forever Hold Your Pee
OK, the blog title doesn’t exactly work. You come up with a pun for both Speakers of Canada and the US Congress quitting/being tossed in one week. Both the Canadian, and American Speakers of the House should resign at the same time this week. Would be a pleasant moment in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jamey Keaten and Seth Borenstein report on the World Meteorological Association’s finding that we’ve just had the hottest summer in recorded history. And Chelsey Harvey highlights how the combination of extreme heat and other climate calamities looks to be a harbinger of worse
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives Turned Into a Soft-core Hate Party So Gradually, I Hardly Noticed
How in the ever-loving Eff could someone not realize that the Conservative Party of Canada was now a party willing to weaponize hatred to gain support, money, and Internet trolls? It’s apparently really GD easy. Yeah, I’m swearing, because this isht is ludicrous. Maybe the first clue for CPC voters
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: History’s Judgement
If you don’t know the tragic story of Emmett Till, you can click here to read something I posted about him a few years back. It is the kind of history that Ron DeSantis doesn’t want Florida students to know about, as I noted in a recent post. Fortunately, Joe
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Things Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Want People To Know
JAMES BALDWIN addresses the University Of Cambridge during his epochal debate with William F. Buckley in 1965. Oratory and content of the very highest order. To listen is to learn. H/t Michael Warburton Keeping both Black and white people ignorant of their history is the main strategy of the Florida
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Just A Victim Of Circumstances?
Fate can be cruel. It is not unheard of to be going about, minding one’s own business, when a person of unknown provenance accosts you and demands a photo with you. Results of such encounters can vary. There was, one may recall, an incident in 2002 when the Mayor of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Atticus Said It Best
Interestingly, that is exactly what Marlon Brando was talking about in 1972, when he refused the Oscar for Best Actor (The Godfather). He was opposing the portrayal of Native Americans on the screen. To make his point, he sent his refusal via Sacheen Littlefeather. As I recall, she was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Racial Discrimination is Okay – It just depends on which race you are…
I kind of need to know now, what the fuck is going on in Ontario with their interpretation of Human Rights and Discrimination. What I do know is that we do not solve present day discrimination by race, by MORE discrimination by race. This bizarre Kafkaesque excerpt from the C2C
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Beth Blauer writes about the continuing need for accurate and timely data about COVID-19 as it represent an ongoing threat. And Rachel Bergmans et al. examine the impact of long COVID on Black Americans in particular, while pointing out a few ways to make
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The John Snow Project calls out the dangers of labeling COVID-19 infection as an immune-boosting mechanism, rather than an unequivocal harm to individual health. Jake Miller discusses new research on the groups at particular risk of long COVID. And Remember Rebuild SK has
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Luke Savage points out that even biased right-wing polling is finding broad support for stronger social programs and limitations on corporate domination in Canada and the U.S. But Jake Johnson writes that the Biden administration is instead increasing military funding while putting
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Value Of Self-Censorship
I am one who firmly believes that far too many people are far too easily offended today, whether it is reflected in demands to tear down statues because of historical transgressions, as in the case of Sir John A., or tossing out all of Winston Churchill’s accomplishments because of
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