Jon Bois’ REFORM! Bois also criticizes the whole practice of pigeonholing voters into two established categories, of forcing people to have to reduce themselves, essentialize their political views. He criticizes the aforementioned political compass charts. It is reminiscent of Edouard Glissant’s idea of the ‘right to opacity.’ Bois destroys and humiliates this essentialization, this hijacking […]
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
[An actual Christmas post] In Defense of Ebenezer Scrooge To the Dickens with Dickens.
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Collapse might be interesting to write about, if only everyone else wasn’t doing it. Hubbert’s Peak is Finally Here From here on out, just six counties in West Texas must meet all global demand growth. […] Using our neural network, we have updated our basin analysis, and the results are shocking. [This area] is likely […]
Saturday, November 20, 2021
“He uh… had the ability to make a bad decision and did.” “Yeahh-uh.” via Lefty Book Club Commentary with some more perspectives
Hey, i wrote something for another blog. Been participating in Lefty Book Club for a few weeks, with weekly assigned readings and group discussions over Zoom. In the subgroup i’ve been attending, we have read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher and are now into Lost Connections by Johann Hari. Good books, good people, recommended for […]
Saturday, October 30, 2021
I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End Nobody is compelling the transportation industries to make the needed changes to their infrastructure. There are no laws compelling them to hire the needed workers, or pay them a living wage, or improve working conditions. And nobody is […]
Saturday, November 23, 2019
This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It’s time we all listened “It wasn’t just early research, it was also applied research, early stage finance, strategic procurement,” she says. “The more I looked, the more I realised: state investment is everywhere.”
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Loblaw admits to bread price-fixing scheme spanning more than 14 years And Loblaw says it will start offering $25 gift cards on Jan. 8 to customers who declare they bought certain (as yet unnamed) breads at some of its (as yet unnamed) chains before March 1, 2015 – a gesture that the company says could […]