On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

From the Rachel Maddow Report team:

Rachel Maddow argues that the United States is "there" now...



I have figured out some things that I have already been doing, that I will keep doing, in order to keep the Problem from fully installing itself in Canada. Other things, I need to either stop or start doing. There are lists that others have worked up, lists I should be copying from, to that end.

Resistance to the revival of the nightmare continues in the States and in Canada, of course, with or without me.

I'm also still looking for work because until either that job is secured or I'm driven out of the workforce to whatever result, I still have to live within the existing system.

Interesting timing, in light of the behaviour of Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bezos this last couple of days...and also the fact that I just bought my copy of Prof. Snyder's On Freedom.

No matter who designed a printed prop for any given TV show or movie made in California over the past century, it seems that one company managed to corner the market for printing them out:



If there are similar operations in Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal...? I don't know who they are yet. I expect to find out.

I'm watching the Day 2 testimony of Catherine McKenney and Mathieu Fleury at the Public Order Emergency Commission's hearings into the Convoy Siege of Ottawa as I type this. Playing catch-up is what I'm doing.

Chilled anew at the dysfunction - accidental in places, intentional in others - that enabled this three-week siege of Centretown and Lowertown. Fleury and McKenney describe a horror and a threat that was both loud and quietly creeping. Friends of mine who live and/or work in those neighbourhoods, strangers as well, affected in an ongoing series of not-so-micro-aggressions. The theft of so many national symbols in service to a crime against the residents and workers, and a worse crime being demanded of the Senate and the Governor-General via that "Memorandum of Understanding".

We are not done with this, because the people who organized it are not done making plans to harm the rest of us. These hearings are needed, in part, for that reason.

So...Leonard Cohen was born this day.

Respect to the man who gave us "You Want It Darker", "The Future", "Democracy", "Anthem", etc..

We've got a lot of infrastructure modifications going on across Ottawa. So, if video footage by drone fuels your appetites, have a look at this...

I gave myself an indulgence on the weekend: The Atlas of Imagined Places.

Five thousand or so fictional places, and the author and cartographer putting this book together tried to figure out where they'd all be. Don't even try to figure out how to string together the backstories of how all these places from different fictional universes could co-exist. Just enjoy and debate the placements. I will.

Context: Lincoln Fields is one of the Transitway stations being refitted for service as part of OC Transpo's Confederation Line O-Train service in Ottawa's West End...

Just stumbled onto a live 'cast of Ottawa City Council!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_6CfY_IKVw

I noticed the AGs of Ohio and Florida - the latter not a surprise, given DeSantis' announced position - are announcing pesecutory investigation plans for the future of GoFundMe.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/07/1078861392/ottawa-protest-state-of-emergency

And of course, there's crypto-grifting going on, too:

https://twitter.com/jacoblorinc/status/1490868775562137602