Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Did America withold missile warnings from Ukraine?

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As Russia's illegal war in Ukraine approaches the five year mark, it continues to hit hapless Ukraine with a nightly barrage of drone an...

How much of the world's problems are attributable to Trump?

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It occurred to me to wonder just how much of the current global economic malaise affecting the world can be attributed directly to just one ...
Monday, October 12, 2026

USA goes out on a limb over ICC

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The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been won , not by Donald Trump (shock! horror!), but by the South African judge Navi Pillay, for her indefati...
Saturday, October 10, 2026

The second Chow - is he a plant?

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There's a second Chow on the ballot form for the upcoming Toronto mayoralty election . Braeden is an unknown guy off the street, with no...

The Myth of the Deal

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President Trump has struck a deal! Yay. And it's the "best deal ever". Again. If Americans are not thoroughly over this stuff ...
Friday, October 09, 2026

New White House Press Secretary looks familiar

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That Mr. Trump has just appointed a new White House Press Secretary , Katie Zacharia. She looks kind of familiar. You don't think he has...

Why is the bond market in rurmoil?

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I keep reading articles about bonds without really understanding them. "Spiralling chaos from the bond market", we are told , ...

Nuclear fusion no closer to a working model, but generating lots of spagghetti

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I have always been, and I remain, skeptical about the dramatic claims made by nuclear fusion energy developers . From time to time, a glowin...