Frank Rich wrote an interesting op-ed in the New York Times a few months ago. I thought of it again after reading another story in the news recently. I think the dots […]
Wealthcare, again – Reprint from Dec 31/10
Ethical SpOil
Licia Corbella, Postmedia News, Aug 4/11 “Ethical oil campaign aims to silence critics. Website’s ads hammer myths about energy-buying practices: Canada’s resources or ‘bloody’ oil that funds terrorism . . .” Nathan […]
Business opportunity for oudoorsmen
Stephen Hume of the Vancouver Sun writes: “It now appears British Columbia is officially declaring total war on wolves in the Cariboo and Chilcotin – a region which covers about one-third of […]
Larger slices of the pie while paying less for their fair share
Opinion by Drew Westen, New York Times, Aug 6/11 “As I stood with my 8-year-old daughter, watching the president deliver his inaugural address, I had a feeling of unease. . . there […]
American Taliban and spiritual warfare
Paul Rosenberg, ALJAZEERA, America’s Own Taliban Prior to 9/11, the Taliban government in Afghanistan did not register very much on American radar screens, with one notable exception: when it blew up two […]
Standing in the path of progress and shouting "Stop!"
Oh, What a Tea Party! by Richard Reeves, Truthdig “. . . The big winners in the budget “deal” were the people who understood the least: the tea party folk, a minority, generally […]
10 big reasons to feel good about taxes
(Click here for 96 more everyday reasons) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said it best: “Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” More specifically, taxes are the price we pay for the […]
Not influenced or controlled by others
This week, a mainstream media pundit, while defending imposition of HST, referred to a report by “The Independent Panel.” That, would be the BC government creation noted in a January News Release from the Finance […]
Campbell Gov’t wages war on children living in poverty
This article was posted a year ago but is worth repeating because the underlying situation has grown worse. British Columbia’s child poverty rate is the highest in Canada and the province has […]
No more taxes, they say
Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star, Aug 01/11 “. . . So, months ago, when Washington embarked on a frenzied search for ways to reduce the massive U.S. deficit, a tax loophole that allowed […]
Greatest hoax ever perpetrated or?
David Roberts, Grist, Stuff white people like: denying climate change: There’s a study running soon in the journal Global Environmental Change called “Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white […]
Is assassination ever an ethical act?
From Nick Turse, Tomgram, Uncovering the Military’s Secret Military: “. . . .But there are now about 20,000 full-time special operations types [like those who assassinated Osama bin Laden], at least 13,000 […]
U.S. spending cuts will further victimize the victims
Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers, August 3, 2011: “The new deficit-cutting package protects the defense industry at the expense of nonmilitary programs, potentially including border enforcement, veterans’ benefits and foreign aid.Shaped in part […]
". . . the film in its entirety is positively gut-wrenching"
Salmon Farms: Feedlots of the Seas, by Barry Estabrook, The Atlantic Monthly “I’ve visited salmon farms, read scientific articles, and interviewed the multi-billion-dollar industry’s advocates and detractors, but never have I encountered […]
Why is rudeness becoming de rigueur?
From David Mitchell’s Soapbox “Then there’s Dragon’s Den, a veritable temple of rudeness, which also tells a barefaced lie about how business is done. The people who do that job for real […]
. . . a parking lot with a pink hotel, a boutique. And a swinging hot spot . . .
“was up at Narrows Inlet for a week plus…..taken a couple of days ago…..don’t want to see penstocks, powerlines and powerhouses in the next photo…..” Ken Renewable Power Corporation (RPC) hopes to […]
Amateur hour at Global TV News
Continuing Global’s ‘expert examination’ of HST, Doug Herbert provided this from Sun Peaks on the July 31 6pm Vancouver News Hour: “The difference in price for a secondary residence pre-HST and post-HST […]
Here you learn "the rest of the story"
I pay little attention to AM radio nowadays. My audio library of spoken words—gathered mostly from American and European sources—is much more informative. However, while in the car last week, I heard […]
What a contrast to Canada’s Harper Government
The Telegraph, July 31, 2011 “The European Commission has apologised for decades of an EU fishing policy so disastrous that the next generation of children may never see fish on their dinner […]
Meaningful differences
From The Atlantic July/August Ideas Issue, Dispatches – Food, by Corby Kummer: “[Las Vegas] a congenial city to set up shop and even raise a family. And restaurant workers who can’t afford […]
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My stepsonn posted a meme on his Mastodon account with both PP and MC claiming, à la Spartacus, "I'm Stephen…