The offerings on the left bank have been sadly lacking in news lately. For a blog that prides itself as ‘Views on New from those that Snooze’, you might consider this a vexing oversight. My only excuse is that what’s reported as news right now lacks much variety. Prior to the emergence of the Confounded, …
Category: Politics
THE MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING WORKERS
After nearly two years of pandemic Kanadoodle is now experiencing a labor shortage. The first indication was news from thousands of restaurants, closed because of COVID and unable to find sufficient staff when they re-opened. Well, if there’s a choice between slaving away in the service industry or staying safer at home, who is rushing …
THE POLARIZED EXPRESS
When I look at the news out of ‘Murica, I sometimes think that their civil war (1861 – 1865) never ended: it’s just that the fighting continues using politics as weapons and the streets and law-courts as the battlefields. There are an endless number of skirmishes on a few familiar topics: my rights vs. community …
REMEMBERING REMEMBRANCE DAY
Back in the 1970’s I lived for a time in Oxford, England. While there I supplemented my lack of income by working as a bookkeeper/receptionist at a boat yard located on an idyllic little spot beside the Thames, just outside the city. The yard rented canal boats for those that viewed drifting around the inland …
Vive le Québec libre!
Kanadoodle's federal government spends about 2.4 billion dollars a year to promote bilingualism and ensure that everyone in Kanadoodle has a right to be misunderstood in either the French or English language (and that doesn’t even count the added consumer costs of bilingual product labeling). As a result, and in true Kanadoodle fashion, this has …
In Praise of Anti-Vaccers
I saw a posting a few days ago about someone in ‘Murica who had a serious medical emergency but couldn’t find a hospital to go to. There was no room for him as all the wards were full of unvaccinated people who had COVID. There’s a constant stream of news about the many people whose …
Election Kanadoodle – the Race Through Wonderland
It is an endless source of wonder that the media in Kanadoodle appears obsessed with having the voters elect either the Libelous or Consumptive Parties. In the current race, the two parties are neck and neck with the only role envisioned for the other parties is the possibility that they could step on those necks …
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And They’re Off – Part 2 – Election Kanadoodle!
The Consumptive Party has been pretty quick out of the starting gate with Erring O’Fool touting a set of campaign promises that makes Tinker Bell’s fairy dust seem inadequate. One million jobs in one year, tax free Christmas, huge increases for health care and a balanced budget. In the first place, we don’t know if …
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AND THEY’RE OFF!
Yes! Our glorious Prime Ribber, Dustbin Truthless, has dropped the writ and set the hot air election balloon flying over Kanadoodle. By the time the election is over, the average Kanadoodlian will have heard enough hot air to melt the polar icecap. Talk about global warming. As usual, anything promised during an election is about …
AFGHANISTAN – WHY?
Watching the news footage of the debacle unfolding at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, I can’t help seeing it through a lens of historical déjà vu. US policy in China through WWII was aimed at training and equipping Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government so they could provide an effective counter to the Japanese in this theatre …
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