Mistaken Identities, Revisited

This morning, I got a note in my GMail account with the sender flagged as "US Concealed Online".

It is the latest of several instances per day that I have been mistaken for other people sharing my personal name-family combination over the years since getting an e-mail account. There have been e-mails seeking assorted other published authors; some from a Home Depot location in Ohio seeking the renewed custom of a nearby, other Dwight Williams; a few seeking a "private military contractor" also sharing my name.

Plugging my name into say, Google or Duck Duck Go for example, gets me hundreds of other named-alike people. Doctors, actors, end-credits production staffers, writers, athletes, fugitives, convicts, and on the list goes. I'm nowhere near either the best- or least-known of my ilk. There is comfort in this at the moment. Some amusement, some consternation, but also comfort.

Your kilometrage will vary.

(no subject)

Indigenous interventions in the fate of BC wildlife:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/19/grizzly-bear-canada-indigenous-conservation-british-columbia#maincontent

Contact-tracing, civil liberties:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/contact-tracing-for-covid-19-risks-erasing-civil-liberties-says-expert-1.5532117

Pandemic vs. actors as explained by Colm Feore:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/stratford-shut-down-during-covid-19-but-colm-feore-keeps-rehearsing-1.5532109

"We are TrumPutin and we give ourselves the right to run roughshod over all other humans!"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/19/us-and-russia-blocking-un-plans-for-a-global-ceasefire-amid-crisis

Xi wants to keep doing that too. (Yes, it's written by H.R. McMaster.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/05/mcmaster-china-strategy/609088/

Jacinda Ardern for President of Earth?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-leadership-coronavirus/610237/

Overheard from Colm Feore

On The Sunday Edition this morning: "Now is the window of our discotheque!"

You go discover the context yourselves, okay?

Mincome, Revisited

What I'm afraid of is that, after this crisis is over, it'll get watered down to uselessness.

Anyway, here's an opinion piece by Hugh Segal and Evelyn L. Forget:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-cerb-is-an-unintended-experiment-in-basic-income/

Related reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_Canada