This morning I read a BBC World News account of the suicide bombing of a bank this week in Khandahar, Afghanistan (in the province defended by Canadian forces for some years), where 21 people were killed and many injured.What drew my attention especially was this comment by the author: .......the overall security situation in Afghanistan … Continue reading Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything
Rescuing Fiction | Gabriel García Márquez – deceased in 2014 and now a new novel?
I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard, or read, someone say something like what the author of the March 6/2024 BBC article says of García Márquez, that he was "was best known for pioneering the magical realist style of writing." That all started with his first and, in the English-speaking world, … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | Gabriel García Márquez – deceased in 2014 and now a new novel?
Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?
The last chance to prevent a criminal from becoming president of the USA has just been thrown away by the supreme court in their enigmatic 9-0 decision. They've thrown responsibility for the future back to the US house of representatives and senate, knowing full well that there's no chance a vote there can succeed. The … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?
Rescuing the Future | South Korea’s declining population
This morning I read a BBC article about South Korea's declining population. Korean women are said to be producing children at a rate of 0.72 per woman, the lowest rate in the world. Since it takes 2.1 births per woman to maintain a population (if you ignore immigration, which many wealthy countries receive), South Korea's … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | South Korea’s declining population
Returning to this world
It's hard to believe I haven't done a post here for 2 months. I won't go into all the reasons -there are too many. One of them was a pair of tax disputes with CRA (Canada's tax people) - an unreal world if there ever was one - where I represented myself alone, since a … Continue reading Returning to this world
Rescuing the Future | Rising Housing Costs | But is the Condo explosion coming to an end?
....... we look like we're headed for some kind of spectacular multi-vehicle financial pile-up. Fasten your seat-belts.
Rescuing History and trying to rescue the Future | What Happened when the U.S. failed to prosecute an insurrectionist Ex-president
If Donald Trump gets re-elected, how long will it be before new versions of the Klan begin operations?
Rescuing the Future | Nick Bostrom and the Dangers of AI | his book Superintelligence
This is a book that dares you to read it.
Autism | Off The Rails | Darius McCollum the unauthorised New York City bus and train driver
........who has been taking buses and trains for rides all his life, beginning at age 15, and has been arrested 30 times for it.
Alan Conrad 