Politics and its Discontents

  People of a certain age will remember Jackie Gleason and one of his famous taglines: "How sweet it is." Delivered with an insouc...

I am convinced that, as a species, we have an innate aversion to uncertainty. Rather than admit to some very real facts of life, contingency...

He's   loved   of   the   distracted   multitude, Who   like   not   in   their   judgment,   but   their eyes - Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 3 ...

 ... Doug Ford seems to have an unhealthy preoccupation with alcohol. Or perhaps he wholehearted believes that the way to a (wo)man's he...

H/t Graeme MacKay  Yesterday's post highlighted the rush to judgement many people embraced when Ulmar Zameer was charged with murdering...

It will probably come as no surprise to regular readers of this blog that I have a rather low opinion of our species. There are too many sma...

When a democratically elected government becomes dishonest and dictatorial, any legal action to hold it to account is welcome. Ontario, groa...

That would be Ontario, though I suppose, in truth, it is far more widespread:  a rising number of deaths from Covid (this week was the wors...

  Here in Ontario, the 2022 June election will likely see another Doug Ford majority, in part achieved by cynically buying the electorate wi...