Ambient Media Has Now Killed Off Broadcast Media
Time of death: 11:14pm, Saturday, August 15, 2009. And I’m qualified to call it because of how media works today. See below if you don’t get it yet. This clip above is the most important 4 minutes and 23 seconds of the rest of your 21st century. Watch it. If you’re like me, much of [...]
Healthcare as a Human Right for Americans?
Americans have had it rough, what with their rabidly individualistic, anti-communitarian history and social policy. From that, they have a hard time embracing things of the common good, like healthcare being a human right. The current debate, with the wingnut lunacy of greedy hyper-individualists wanting to keep poor people without healthcare that others would have [...]
Nigel Lawson: Public Enemy #1
First a neoliberal champion, now Lawson actually welcomes climate breakdown! It will be a frosty night in Ottawa in October when the grumpy Lord Nigel Lawson spends an evening with the Fraser Institute celebrating neoliberalism and daring climate breakdown to challenge our adaptability. For $195 you can throw heaping stares of disdain at the fellow [...]
We’re Failing Our Grandchildren on Stopping Climate Breakdown
Our grandchildren will hate us for our informed inaction on climate change. I refuse to bear this. I’m watching a National Geographic documentary on climate breakdown right now on the Knowledge Network. Saharan dust storms are madly increasing the rates of asthma and decreasing the health of sea fans on the reefs…in the Caribbean! The [...]
“Axe the Tax”: NOW We Need that Campaign!
While the Axe the Tax campaign ruined the BC NDP’s green credibility last year and helped lose the election, it is time for an Axe the Tax campaign now with the regressive HST. The government is consistently lying that it will save money by harmonizing the logistics of tax collection. They simply refuse to respond [...]
Shirley Bond’s Marie Antoinette Complex
shirleybond The heat wave continues-imagine being loaded on an Air Canada flight and then sitting on the tarmac in the heat for an hour – yup it was me!10:45 PM Jul 29th from web Shirley Bond should keep using Twitter so we can see a better sense of her lack of empathy and perspective. Former [...]
I Am a Free Speech Zone: No Mayor Can Waive My Charter Rights During the Olympics
Granted, I’m not a lawyer. I consider myself at best a pretend-lawyer [I prefer "lay-lawyer"] so when I dispense legal advice I add a standard disclaimer that I’m not real. We’re all lucky, though, that David Eby is a real lawyer, even those around here who have drunk the Olympics Boosterism Kool-Aid[tm]. But when it [...]
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