Sock Puppets for Sock Puppets

When even Ed the Sock throws in the towel on Justin, you get the sense that the end has to be near.

As an aside, I remember when Ed used to be genuinely funny.

The Honourable Member For Air India (Bumped)

Gets taken to the woodshed.

Good times.

Update: I’ve been watching the debate on CPAC and a Liberal member has introduced a desperation amendment so they can crawl out of this hole… I guess the reports of frantic backroom negotiations were on target. developing…

OOPS! The BQ is complaining that THE PAPER NAPKIN HAS NO VERSION IN FRENCH. LOL … and debate is suspended.

Update 2: And they’re back… and the unilateral recognition of “the state of Palestine” is gone. Fracking delicious.

The circus has descended into shitshow.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Vancouver’s all-electric vehicle was unveiled Dec. 4, with VFRS Chief Karen Fry referring to it as a “reinvention of the fire truck.”

The department said the truck is smaller and more maneuverable than a traditional truck, and can go 100 kilometres on a single charge.

At a cost of $1.8 million, it’s $300,000 to $500,000 more than a new diesel engine, but Fry said there are huge environmental and health benefits to an electric truck, as diesel fumes are a known carcinogen.

Trudeau did not say when the truck will return to service.

What Would We Do Without Studies?

“Psychological researchers in Finland have created an assessment to help measure an individual’s commitment to principles of social justice and made some surprising findings across the Finnish population — including a negative correlation between progressive ideals and levels of happiness.”

“Their findings, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, suggest other Western nations may see similar patterns among their socially conscious citizens.”

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

What a COVID-19 Food Fight Says About Scientific Discourse

I first wrote a version of this post almost three years ago when I learned that I was blocked on Twitter by some prominent virologists soon after I called for an independent investigation of COVID-19 origins. Since then, I have observed public discussions of COVID-19 origins among virologists continue to devolve into ever-greater depths of name calling, juvenile insults, and more troublingly, efforts to damage careers and reputations.

Of course, I’ve seen this all before up close and personal in public discussions of climate, and as you might guess, I have some thoughts.

Monday On Turtle Island

Blackie’s Canada:  Renaming everything in Canada (CBC).  A Turtle Island story.  I guess bribing the mainstream media isn’t enough. Government pays Tiktoker to trash the Conservatives.  Apparently the Freedom Convoy was anti-Semitic.

Dementia Joe’s America:  An interview with Donald Trump.  The thin veneer of civilization.

The Planet Is Boiling News:  An insane plan.  The war on fossil fuel.

Your morning meme.  A cartoon.

“Seems like only yesterday, I’d get a blank cassette…”

James Lileks;

You see tweets like the neuroscientist’s all the time from the young and the baffled, the generation who grew up with the internet all around them like a benevolent god who asked nothing of them except watching five seconds of an ad before the video starts.

When you like drove from one state to another state, how did you know where to go??? Were there like signs or things?

I’d sit in the truck with a tape recorder.

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