On the assumption things don’t get so bad that we descend into anarchy, those of us with protected incomes have a much better chance than those who don’t of coming out of this thing financially intact, but also physically intact…. Read More ›
Editorials
HEY, I’M JUST SPECULATIN’
People complain about the cold. So what does God do? He warms it up a little. And then they get hysterical about global warming. Can you blame Him for getting a bit miffed? “Here, let me give you something to… Read More ›
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
‘cuz you just might get it. Truer words may never be spoken if it turns out the coronavirus delivers on precisely what the environmental movement has been yearning for lo this last half century. In this one fell swoop that… Read More ›
PUSHBACK
There are no Italian restaurants in Italy. They’re just restaurants. Similarly, until the late Sixties there was no ‘conservative’ radio. There was just radio. The conservative media became ‘conservative’ only when the mainstream turned to the left. As a result,… Read More ›
QASEM SOLEIMANI AND 2020
I’m beginning to suspect that, given who he’s likely to be up against in November, Trump is going to be re-elected in 2020. But as one of his advisers – and I guess in a sense I am, since I… Read More ›
BLACKFACE
Should there be a statute of limitations? For some crimes, yes, for others no, and we can argue about which is which. But should there be a statute of limitations on purely moral accountability for saying and doing stupid things?… Read More ›
IN DEFENSE OF BERNARD VALCOURT
At the risk of sounding racist … oh what the hell, I can just play my J-card – ex-Tory MP Bernard Valcourt was dead right to object to the MMIWG enquiry calling the murder of indigenous women “the Canadian genocide”…. Read More ›
TRAVIS PATRON AND BERNIE FARBER
The application of Travis Patron’s newly minted Canadian National Party for tax-deductibility status, and the opposition to that status from Bernie Farber’s Canadian Anti-Hate Network, is the perfect test-case for just how far the rest of us are prepared to… Read More ›
THE CAMPAIGN AS OF AUGUST 2019
Donald Trump may be an idiot, but even an idiot can accidentally hit on the right strategy. He knows that his so-called base, about 40%, isn’t enough to get him re-elected. And there’s nothing he can do to add to… Read More ›
GRETA THUNBERG
How much is myth, and how much is history, we’ll never know, but either way what the Children’s Crusade tells us is that there’s not a whole lot that’s new under the sun. What’s widely acknowledged is that in the… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 