None Dare Call It Sedition

Orcinus, April 6, 2010 Sedition: Crime of creating a revolt, disturbance, or violence against lawful civil authority with the intent to cause its overthrow or destruction — Brittanica Concise Dictionary Well, finally. It’s high time somebody had the guts to say the S-word — sedition — right out loud. When the indictments against the Hutaree …

An Expat’s Guide to the Vancouver Olympics

ourfuture.org, February 12, 2010   Hello, world. We’ve been expecting you. It’s good to see you here, milling around Robson Street in your uniforms and badges, whooshing here and there in what must be a million Official Olympic GM-donated cars, making guesses as to where in town they’ve hidden the fire tower for the Olympic …

Copenhagen: Getting past the urgency trap

Grist, November 21, 2009 Copenhagen’s still three weeks away, but climate activists are already voicing their enormous disappointment about everything that’s not going to get done there. The heat is rising, and we’re all feeling the overwhelming urgency to get a strong global agreement that will get the laggards off their butts and launch the …

Postcard From Canada: Why I Missed Obama’s Speech

ourfuture.org, September 13, 2009 True confessions: I missed the health care speech. While the whole lefty blogosphere was watching and blogging and tweeting, I was sacked out in my attic bedroom high on a mountainside in Vancouver, sleeping off a narcotic haze and the exhausting aftermath of a long night spent in the emergency room …

The Health Care Debate: Another Country Heard From

Orcinus, July 26, 2009 Tommy Douglas — Canada’s answer to Abe Lincoln. He didn’t free the slaves, but he got everybody free health care. One of the big differences between the 1993 Hillarycare debate and our current conversation is that we’re hearing a lot more fact and lot less fiction about how other countries’ systems …