By any honest measure Since the Trump Party (aka the GOP) is likely to take the House of Representatives in this 2022 election, the “United” States will soon be drowning in talk of impeachments. Impeaching Biden, impeaching Merrick Garland, impeaching top agency and bureau officials — impeaching every public servant who won’t bend the knee…
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One Step Closer to Theocracy America’s religious extremists have always wanted women to suffer for an unwanted pregnancy. They now want big government to punish women for disencumbering themselves from a disastrous unintended pregnancy. In 2022, these zealots got their decades-long wish. Due to the radical religious dogma of the Supreme Court of the United…
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image by mohamed Hassan Please consider this a first warning… The following is a review that was canceled from amazon.com’s USA website. I wrote it during the summer of 2021, and it was removed by the company in the last month of that year. “One or more of your posts were found to be outside…
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Help Reverse The Death of Expertise The COVID-19 pandemic in conjunction with the World Wide Web caused millions of people to believe their own opinions as holding equal value to those of actual epidemiologists and virologists. In 2022, Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has already caused a somewhat similar phenomenon. Millions suddenly fancy themselves experts…
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image by Stefan Keller by WC, another expat in Montreal I was returning from a trip to the Rockland Centre mall with my mother-in-law, an experience far more personally unsettling for me than the prospect of war that was unnerving her. My social anxiety had been on a recovery trajectory until the pandemic reversed me…
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Don’t hurt their feelings of freedom! 2022 is already one of the dumbest years of the century thus far, and “Freedom Convoy 2022” is just more evidence of the trend. Picture if you will a thousand harebrained big rig drivers getting on the road to protest. Are they speaking out about the economics of being…
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This year, the worst one is not even a “Republican” Recently enough, everyone (well, everyone other than Trumpists) could easily identify the worst politician in America. Yet in 2021, the plume of infamy may not actually go to a neo-fascist far-right alternate-reality authoritarian like Donald or any of his GOP Mini-Me imitators in Congress. Look,…
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Have you no shame? They’ve been given months to honestly evaluate all of the information available in the public domain. They’ve had the opportunity to witness the laudable success of the 6 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses taken thus far. An unbiased observer from another galaxy might conclude that Earth’s anti-vaxxers are a pro-virus death cult,…
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This woman is expressing her opposition to SARS-CoV-2 by wearing a mask. In Canada, every misguided Canadian who flaunts public health measures is conveying these same hostile sentiments, but not towards the virus — they are instead expressing animosity towards the rest of us. Photo by vperemencom. March 2021 Misguided Canadian Although any Canadian snowbird who…
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The Red Mirage came to pass The election that many in the States felt couldn’t end soon enough saw its very probable winner within a day of polling places closing. While ballot counting will continue at least until the weekend, a path to victory for Trump remains highly unlikely. The Red Mirage* phenomenon, which was…
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