On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

And I found that out today on my way back from a trip to a long-term care facility.

How am I supposed to trust pharmacies of any affiliation during a Pandemic that's still in progress when they do stuff like this?

...and the threat it poses to us all:

https://twitter.com/GeoffyPJohnston/status/1535690601617924096

siderea makes some notes about the monkeypox situation. Once again, we are likely to be Not Paranoid Enough about the things that we should be, because the organized bigots are going to start leveraging this too to restore their power over their chosen prey-groups if they haven't already. And that will likely undermine the public health measure we should already be undertaking.

(Should I use "Augh!" or "Virus Don't Care" for this one?)

What the Hell???

Canadian banks backing this play???

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-elon-musk-twitter-deal-rbc-cibc-financing/

Seems to me there might be a political fight at CBS HQ soon, if not now, between the bosses of the news division vs. those of the Star Trek offices...because I've seen the content and casting of the current Trek series. And have you noticed who the news division's taking on as commentators? Mulvaney and who else?

Yes, I am absolutely speculating in an ill-informed way here. It looks to me like the two divisions of the company are going to be at cross-purposes.

We've seen what happens when dictators take the countries under their control down such roads before, haven't we?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-putin-warns-pro-western-traitors-ukraine-1.6386960

...though things in Centretown and the Parliamentary Precinct seem to have gone quiet enough for the night.

We've had at least one reporter ducking beer-can tosses. (A reporter I actually got to say "hello" to once.)

We've had a helicopter violating federal no-fly zones. (Whose pilot ought to be losing their license and soon, over this.)

We've had Confederate, Trumpist and Nazi flags carried by "protestors" alongside the Gadsden flag in the core.

We've had people jumping up and down on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

We've had the statue of Terry Fox on Wellington Street repeatedly desecrated today.

We've had His Trumpness endorsing those bad actors at his latest Nuremberg Stunt tonight.

I've had enough.

I had to pass within breathing distance of several people who looked very much like they were lining up at Blair Station to board the O-Train to join the "fun" downtown, and I was not able to keep my cool about it. Fortunately, we all had other places to be and quickly. (I'm hearing that the Confederation Line was having issues again today, so they might not have gotten there.)

This has not been the best day, despite my staying clear of the epicentre of the mess.

Referred to me by saskboy_feed:

https://juliancribb.blog/2021/12/14/the-rise-and-rise-of-petrofascism/

In case anyone's wondering: I am NOT interested in NFTs. Why should I enable eco-hostile, money-laundering crap?

And then there's this angle from SPLC's Michael Edison Hayden:

https://twitter.com/MichaelEHayden/status/1469019752362389508

Dammit.

Just got the news alert e-mail from the Toronto Star.

Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.