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Seriously! Is this really a contest about which party can nominate the most fucking stupid idiot for the leadership of the most powerful military machine on the planet? Biden Claims Trump Is The First Racist President | HuffPost Canada .  … Continue reading →

No comment needed Source: Man, 30, Dies After Attending a ‘Covid Party,’ Texas Hospital Says – The New York Times

Source: Navigating Race-Based Data: Intersections of Health through COVID-19 – SFU Public Square – Simon Fraser University Haven’t these people got the message that race doesn’t exist? That it’s not a scientific topic and that there is no conceivable biological … Continue reading →

Source: If nuclear power had taken off – What if nuclear power had taken off in the 1970s? | The World If | The Economist

The reissue of this Aeon Essay prompted a couple of thoughts. First the Greeks, like the Egyptians, were surrounded by peoples of both darker and lighter complexion. To the North they had the startlingly white Northern barbarians and to the … Continue reading →

George Ellis, Emeritus Professor of Complex Systems and Applied Mathematics, co-author of Stephen Hawking, and (IMO less auspiciously) winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize for reconciling science and religion has written a recent Aeon Essay explaining “why so many physicists are … Continue reading →

Let’s Not be Afraid to Tax the Rich Dear Ministers Chrystia Freeland, Jonathan Wilkinson, Steven Guilbeault, Navdeep Bains, Melanie Joly, Seamus O’Regan, and Mary Ng, The high top marginal tax rates that followed the two great world wars of the … Continue reading →

Yes! Let’s punish the people of Hong Kong for resisting CCP control Source: Trump Moves to Strip Hong Kong of Special U.S. Relationship – The New York Times

(With more attention to scanning Carroll’s reflections than to reflecting physics’ conjections) The polehode rolls on the herpolhode,  slipless in the invariable plane. And when it slips the herpolpode quips “That’s non-holonomic to me” But asymmetric jax-es flip intermediate ax-es, … Continue reading →

A friend just passed on for comment this piece from last summer where New York Times opinionist Farhad Manjoo says: It’s Time for ‘They’ –The singular “they” is inclusive and flexible, and it breaks the stifling prison of gender expectations. … Continue reading →

The movie has serious flaws but I am glad I watched it because it also raises some legitimate questions. Unfortunately those questions are not addressed in this POS review which, on the contrary, picks up on and endorses some of … Continue reading →

The New York Times pretty much copied this: Covid-19 data – Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries | Graphic detail | The Economist

This is not quite what I suggested in my “modest proposal” of March 16 but it does have some of the same elements. Addendum (suggested by my friend John Butler) To the tune of Hotel California and with apologies to … Continue reading →

The over-the-top reaction of Elizabeth May made it certain that I would have to actually watch this. And I’m not sorry I did. The main messages (which bizzarely the very poor Guardian reviewer almost completely missed in a relatively favourable … Continue reading →

I suppose there will be some value in future to having the knowledge of exactly how much harm one person can do in a situation like this. Source: Trump Encourages Protest Against Governors Who Have Imposed Virus Restrictions – The … Continue reading →

ThisNew York Times ‘Canada Letter’ is a welcome contribution to the exposure of the evils of private care facilities. My only problem with the article is Susan Bartlett’s reference to reticence about complaining out of “deference for our health care … Continue reading →

In political arguments (especially in a democracy) there is a tendency to value quantity over quality. We are all have good reason to be afraid of alienating potential supporters, and as a result sometimes we are slow to reject even … Continue reading →

This is just one example of stories that need to be widely disseminated during the coming US election. Massive distribution of TV ads showing DT’s early comments on COVID-19 is another. And there are many more. Mike Bloomberg has proved that … Continue reading →

I am sick and tired of seeing only what journalists have managed to pull out from random published reports – especially when that consists of summary statistics based just on numbers by nation. But even when someone has the wit … Continue reading →