On the left, an installation by Willem Van Genk at the Amsterdam Hermitage museum. On the right, an installation by Sam Regan, the guy who's renovating our bathrooms.
On the left, Globe and Mail journalists take a stab at talking about climate change policy and what that means in Canada. On the right, hosts of the Daily Zeitgeist podcast, Miles Grey (on the left), Jack O'Brien (on the right), and some Canadian comic in the middle perform a two-hour swing through the year 2000, including a clip from Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve, featuring a short interview with Donald Trump.
Which brings me to today's topic.
The world's most powerful crybaby seems to be taking the coronavirus personally. It's another hoax brought on by the left to undermine his chances for re-election.
This is the way the world ends: the sociopathic narcissists in charge overstate the risks that serve to make them politically powerful (caravans, for example) and understate the risks that show their essential weakness. So vast resources are spent chasing phantoms, while real perils (climate change, for example) go begging.
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Meanwhile, in Canada, on Friday night at the Great Hall, before the podcast heroes came onstage, their producer Anna Hossnieh stepped out to address the crowd.
She apologized, saying she was afraid she wasn't going to pronounce all the names right, but, she said, she wanted to do a land acknowledgement.
The crowd - all youngsters - went wild. When she stumbled over some of the First Nations' names, people helped her by shouting out the correct pronunciation. When she was done, the audience cheered its approval. So the whole world's not broken.
Thanks for reading!
Karen
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| Masks in a shop window, Amsterdam |
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