PEREGRINE PULP

How do you make sense of what’s happening? What I’m seeing are officials, news reporters, and protesters alike quick to demand folks draw a strong distinction between Hamas and Palestine, the people of Palestine and the terrorist wing of Hamas. What we have here are “a few bad apples”, or so they say. But notice this proclamation isn’t anything like a principle the folks offering such believe in or run with in other contexts. In fact, they’re perfectly happy painting whole na

You will be delighted to learn I received much push-back on my last submission. Aside from some interesting comments, I was sent several...

I've heard and seen some wild shit this week. (Though I probably shouldn't, I'll leave out the most insane anti-Semitic noise and...

No part of the narrative forming around this story even makes sense. That CBC is pushing this silly idea is, well, no surprise. With the...

Though I bought " A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency " the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now did I finish reading it. ( You should go buy five copies .) Obviously, as the title suggests, it's a book about transforming our society with a reorientation toward a concern for climate and addressing the problems we face. In spelling out just how all this will work, the author starts by quoting Gramsci. * And, well, it goes downhill fast from there. Am

During the Red Scare and adjacent insanity , that terrible decade of right-wing propaganda, paranoia, and political persecution born of...

I imagine that it is as true for you as it is me that almost everything I thought I understood from prior education turned out to be far from the whole story or even entirely wrong. Occasionally this occurrence is innocent and happens because we’ve learned more over time or because the author or teacher felt they needed to simplify for their learners. At other times the person who wrote the book or taught the lesson simply didn’t know what they were talking about or never loo

We moved into a new place. The first strata council meeting eventually arrived. My partner had been anticipating the event for two months, was eager to go, and I was thrilled for her to represent. I was also happy to opt out. She reported back that I was the only one not in attendance, that she explained my absence to the group as “He doesn’t like meetings,” and that the secretary noted this in the Council’s minutes. I thought all of that was funny. I recounted it to friends

Today I was reminded that I had this weird conflict with my friends. We decided we wanted a stamp made to brand some paper bags for our...

This week, authorities have given us things like: “ July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history .” “July isn't even over and it's projected to be the hottest month humanity has ever experienced.” “The North Atlantic just reached its highest temperature in recorded history just two days after the Mediterranean Sea reached its highest temperature in recorded history.” I love this. These folks consistently tell us how passionate they are about precisi

I’ve been looking at commercial and residential real estate numbers pretty regularly since 2016. When I was in Calgary at that time and exploring commercial real estate, I kept coming across nonsensical numbers all over the place. As someone new to the city and with no background information the figures were ludicrous. As I started looking into it ("Can that possibly be correct?") I learned a lot, mostly about how rampant and significant the level of fraud seemed to be. Since

I saw a “safe supply” rally yesterday in Victoria. And I read this article about it this morning, titled “ BC mother runs across province...

In order to have a civilization we need to have trust in our institutions. I think that’s irrefutable. But are those institutions and the professionals entrusted with sustaining them helping this cause? That’s a question that seems worth asking. At the moment there’s a curious phenomenon of experts vociferously spouting off across the news and social media in defence of their colleagues, the managerial class and the institutions those folks run, and the popular media who also

Oliver Stone just put out a new film promoting nuclear energy, titled Nuclear Now: Time to look again. So, just as he asks, let’s...

As with every fire season in recent memory, we’re being told this one is unprecedented. Fires in Alberta and Nova Scotia are said to be...

The killer whale is the largest known species of dolphin. This exposes its common name as a rather silly one. ( Silly, just like so many others, such as the: mantis shrimp [not a shrimp or a mantis], electric eel [not an eel], starfish or cuttlefish [not fish], sea cucumber [not a vegetable, though it sure looks like a disembodied rectum], king cobra [not a cobra], horny toad [not a toad, maybe horny], red panda [not a panda], koala bear [not a bear], maned wolf [not a wolf]

BC’s Chief Coroner, Lisa Lapointe, came out in defence of “safe supply.” Safe supply being the tack recently adopted by the province to...

For eighty years humans have lived under the threat of a nuclear exchange between superpowers, intended or unintended. Despite the elapsed time, many still consider this threat to be at the top of their list of global concerns and something that continues to keep them up at night — and much more so as of late . Others have never learned or largely forgotten that their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents rigged the whole of the northern hemisphere with these highest