Friday, May 29, 2026

What's in a name? Where laws are concerned , quite a lot, it seems

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Some of Vladimir Putin's most outspoken opponents are engaging in a full court press in Canada. And what they are campaigning for might ...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Correlation between education and voting in the USA

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Here's an interesting little rabbit hole to go down. Based on US census data, the best-educated American states  are: Massachusetts Colo...

China's immovable smoking addiction

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By all accounts, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave up an atrocious smoking habit some fifteen years ago. His country, though, is making zero...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Is Mark Carney's extended honeymoon period starting to sour?

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Mark Carney has been granted a generous, even unprecedented, honeymoon period as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and as Prime Minister...

Potential investors in Spacex should be very wary

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The IPO for Elon Musk's SpaceX is expected to be the biggest ever , and will convert it into an almost $2 trillion enterprise. However, ...
Monday, May 25, 2026

The other disease outbreak that no-one is talking about

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With all the attention on hantavirus and ebola outbreaks, the devastating measles outbreak in Bangladesh has gone all but unnoticed. What m...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

US crusade against Cuba makes no sense

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's usual function in the US government is to try to settle things down after yet another wild outburst ...

Remember COVID? It's still with us

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I happened to read a letter in the newspaper that gave some rather striking statistics about the death rates from COVID-19 in various countr...