Baltimore is a town striken with inequality, between rich and poor, black and white. The slight of hand by senior politicians and big biz to abuse the public trust knows no limits in this their field of opportunity ripe for the picking. (The Port Covington tract is just 4% black.Continue Reading
(Recall that—by Trump’s own public admission—as late as Election Day he did not believe he would win the presidency of the United States. Trump thought that—on November 9, 2016—he’d return to being a non-politician private citizen free to do big international business deals. So all of Trump’s historically pro-Russia foreignContinue Reading
(Dan Robbins did something quite remarkable and radical: he demonstrated that it is not necessary for any given artist to create something unique or deeply original in order to be an artist. Thus, Robbins may legitimately be compared to Marcel Duchamp, whose readymades demonstrated that, within the art world itself,Continue Reading
What happens when a town tries to replace public transit with Uber? In 2017, the Toronto exurb of Innisfil, Ontario, took a chance on subsidizing rides instead of running a traditional bus service, offering riders a flat fare or discounts through the ride-hailing app. The plan worked, perhaps a littleContinue Reading
Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He is 63. ‘The nurse notedContinue Reading
Pamela Anderson on the arrest of Julian Assange yesterday, “How could you Equador? (Because he exposed you.) How could UK? Of course–you are America’s bitch and you need a diversion from your idiotic Brexit bullshit.” J.A. surely knew this day was coming, it was not a question of if butContinue Reading
There is a new documentary produced by the NFB that follows the life and times of the famous Quebecois singer and songwriter Pauline Julien. She was partnered with poet Gerald Godin who became a Quebec MLA. The piece frames Julien as the muse of the soverignists during the buildup toContinue Reading
Global warming is posing a challenge for capitalism, one which it is unable to address unless alternative fuel sources become more lucarative than fossile. Scientists are looking into the earths past to precisely map out what we can expect as the planet heats up. (Huber said the stratocumulus tipping pointContinue Reading
Over a short span of three days this week I got e-mails from diffrent people that I have edited and used to form this post. The first message asked me what Bernie Sanders was going to do for working class Americans. The second message contained a long list of online video’s addressing theContinue Reading
Linda Gyulai has been one of Montreal’s top investigative reporters for quite a while and her in-depth articles on corruption and slight of hand over the years at city hall reads like a B movie script with a cast of of smiling shifty grifters in suits that includes mayors, cityContinue Reading