OBLIGATIONS, PRIORITIES, AND THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY or HOW TO DESTROY TRUST IN OUR INSTITUTIONS
In order to have a civilization we need to have trust in our institutions. I think that’s irrefutable. But are those institutions and the...
Jun 16, 202317 min read
TIME TO LOOK AGAIN
Oliver Stone just put out a new film promoting nuclear energy, titled Nuclear Now: Time to look again. So, just as he asks, let’s...
Jun 12, 20239 min read
UNPRECEDENTED
As with every fire season in recent memory, we’re being told this one is unprecedented. Fires in Alberta and Nova Scotia are said to be...
May 29, 202311 min read
GIANT SADISTIC MURDER-DOLPHINS
The killer whale is the largest known species of dolphin. This exposes its common name as a rather silly one. ( Silly, just like so many...
May 27, 20234 min read
COMPASSION AND CLEAN DRUGS
BC’s Chief Coroner, Lisa Lapointe, came out in defence of “safe supply.” Safe supply being the tack recently adopted by the province to...
May 21, 20239 min read
USER EXPERIENCE
A true story
May 16, 20236 min read
ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
For eighty years humans have lived under the threat of a nuclear exchange between superpowers, intended or unintended. Despite the...
Apr 29, 20237 min read
STRIKE
More than 155,000 public servants under the Public Service Alliance of Canada have set up picket lines across the country. On the service...
Apr 19, 20238 min read
THE NEW HUMAN EPOCH
I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...
Apr 3, 20235 min read
UBER TEACHER
Letter to Blair
Apr 3, 20236 min read
BESMIRCHING THE TRUTH
Though this was clear to anyone paying attention, we now have some details from behind-the-scenes of the rampant, wide-spread,...
Mar 18, 20238 min read
ANNELID DINE-IN
Kurl : Ice ages and droughts, tornadoes and floods, they're all absurd chaos.
Mar 16, 20233 min read
WHY DOUBLE?
An article about housing affordability popped up in my news feed. From Business in Vancouver, it was titled British Columbians need to...
Mar 1, 20233 min read
FRAUD? WHAT FRAUD?
So, Canadian real estate. Yeah. The prices in Canadian residential real estate went from an already obscene high in 2020 to a peak 40%...
Feb 23, 20234 min read
OFF THE RAILS
I began hearing about faulty braking as the cause of the train derailment in Ohio starting on February 8th. More specifically David...
Feb 20, 20235 min read
"WHY IS THE MEDIA IGNORING THIS?"
This is a curious phenomenon I’ve been following for more than a decade now. It happens around everything from environmental issues (such...
Feb 16, 20237 min read
WHAT'S UP WITH WEED?
Recently I read the pot market more than doubled during the pandemic. And yet almost everywhere a weed shop stood in this town in 2018...
Feb 10, 20233 min read
HOW ARE SEA STARS DOING?
You may have heard something about the Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) epidemic that came to the Pacific coast of North America in 2013....
Jan 8, 20236 min read
