Sunday, June 27, 2021

Difficult to believe that the US Republican Party is STILL in denial

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This is fascinating. Over six months after the last US election, a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken on May 7-19 2021 has, found that 53% of Republi...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

Kudo - a singular kudos?

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I came across today for the first time the word "kudo" as a singular noun: the context was that a book "deserves every kudo i...

Breaking up tent camps in city parks can be the right thing to do

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Toronto Police and city staff are in the process of clearing out various homeless tent camps throughout the city (as is also happening in V...

Gypsy moths - one man's unfortunate legacy

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Southern Ontario (and some parts of southern Quebec) is going through another gypsy moth infestation at the moment. This happens every deca...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

COVID Delta variant disguises itself as an innocent cold

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Studies from the UK show that the symptoms of the Delta (Indian) variant of COVID-19 can be quite different from what we've been used to...

School houses back in the Dark Ages

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We have been watching further series of The Last Kingdom on Netflix (see this earlier entry for some of the early English history surroundi...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Iran's election a cynical exercise in chicanery

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Iran's "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Ali Khameini is old and sick (apparently suffering from cancer). But this has not stopped hi...
Friday, June 18, 2021

Vaccine lotteries make no sense to me

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I have been reading for some time now about various sweeteners and incentives that several US states (and even a Canadian province ) have b...