I supported police clearing out those who blocked roads in the Ottawa occupation. And I now favor police clearing out the anti-Semites who are blocking roads in Toronto. That's problematic for some conservative and progressives alike. Too bad. Be consistent.

I don’t know whether Matt Ygelsias made the cut into the ranks of the "superforecasters" this year but his commentary below is super-depressingly-insightful

Jacobin doing it's best to confirm that the left's definition of fascism is "anything I disapprove of."

Fascinating new regression technique at work here.

Wow. Just fantastic. aonedone Tim Harder Jim-bike/food/wine YYCWine John Veltheer Darren Oleksyn Steve Kubota Jeff VVV 🍷⚖️🇮🇱 Cinzia Hayes Coastal Cab Critic Thomas Hughes

This is the way.

Prediction: We are never going to get to the bottom of ArriveCan, any more than we're ever going to get to the bottom of SNC Lavalin, or WE Charity, or the Winnipeg lab mess, or anything else. Our accountability mechanisms are just laughably weak, where they are not compromised.

A large swathe of the internet seems to believe it’s wrong to describe someone doing something bad without appending “(and that was bad)” every few paragraphs.

Coastal progressives for the next 9 months:

The thing to remember here is that environmentalism is not about reducing tons of carbon in the Earth's atmosphere, it's about abolishing industrial consumerism to usher in a pastoral utopia within pseudoscientific earth-systems boundaries.

Every European country has various laws on the books that are just like “productivity is illegal now” and then people wonder why they are poor.

This is a good point. The humanities are a small handful of people rehashing the same old ideas in increasingly pedestrian and politicized prose that no one ever reads. Social science is a huge enterprise working tirelessly to generate vast oceans of sensational new fake results.

Applies in more than one capital.

There’s still time for Inanimate Carbon Rod to get into the race.

So in summary: Biden refused to say he’d take a cognitive test, refused to say he would consider stepping down if key allies asked him to, said the polls are fake news, and that he wouldn’t fret if he lost as long as he tried his best. This is all Trumpian bullshit. Just madness.

Yeehaw Tim Harder Jim-bike/food/wine YYCWine John Veltheer Darren Oleksyn Steve Kubota Jeff VVV 🍷⚖️🇮🇱 Cinzia Hayes Coastal Cab Critic Thomas Hughes

I wrote about Joe Biden and the half-truths, implausibilities, and brain-melting rationalizations that his defenders expect the public to believe. I'll be cliche and quote Orwell: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears." We have to be better than this.

Is Cowichan Valley Canada’s Next Great Wine Country? | Wine Enthusiast Magazine wineenthusiast.com/culture/travel… Nice Coverage of Vancouver Island! #sweet