Wednesday, November 03, 2021

The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Still Looking for the Magic Wand.

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  In this case the sorcerer's apprentice is our prime minister and the magic wand he quests for is carbon capture and sequestration. It...
Saturday, May 01, 2021

Raising the Bar or Catch-Up Ball

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  Pandemic, check. Climate change, check. Infrastructure, check. Tax reform, check. For most of the Liberal government's time in office ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Living In an Anti-Vax World

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  Let's say you're a salesman in a car dealership. You walk over to a prospective customer who points to a car and asks, "what ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Junk Has Got to Go. In a World Short of Resources, the Case for a Steady State Economy Returns.

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I bought a wonderful Sony TV. Six years later it was scrap. I bought a terrific Kitchenaid gas range. Six years and it was gone. The TV fail...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Our Ghastly Future

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No one, as yet, has come up with a solution to the great challenge facing those who want to settle Mars - terra forming. Mars can't be s...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

An Inauspicious Day, March 11

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One year ago today the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 had become an epidemic. Today also marks the tenth anniversary of the Fuk...
Friday, January 15, 2021

A Trip Down Memory Lane

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  Theresa May was a mediocre prime minister of the United Kingdom. She was broken on the wheel of Brexit by Boris Johnson.  Some pitied her....