The completely true story of where the now familiar expression “Elbows up” originates from... 😉 #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/shorts/gLgaT...

Partially colourized version of 1937 photograph of flood victims lining up for food in Louisville, KY, taken by Margaret Bourke-White for “LIFE” magazine, showing an ironic disparity between idealized American prosperity and the reality of poverty and racial inequality. #Art, #Photography, #SNAP

“There is no time to plan, there is no space to think. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only war.” Ants are such endlessly fascinating creatures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVYo...

The National War Memorial in Ottawa. Bronze figures of soldiers comprising “The Response of Canada” to the Great War (as it was then still called) by the English sculptor Vernon March. Started in 1928 and completed in 1932 by March’s six brothers and his sister following his untimely death in 1930.

You heard it straight from the horse’s mouth. 😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLM...

Cinematic montage of outdoor sculptures from this year’s “Sculpture by the Sea” exhibition in Sydney, Australia (Bondi Beach). Some really imaginative and cool-looking pieces... also a handful of works quite less so, imho. #Art, #Sculpture www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1tS...

“Moses” Mike Johnson’s little, um, secret. 😆 www.youtube.com/shorts/nfg2t...

Somebody should tell Trump what this random guy on Twitter had to say almost precisely 12 years ago about leadership. 😉

Does anyone but mouth-breathing MAGA cultists believe Trump has a clue about what “the founders” thought about tariffs? Unlikely given he’s never read the Constitution, let alone the Federalist Papers. Fact is they had differing opinions, but all understood that tariffs must be enacted by Congress!

Wow, indeed. 🙄

MTG giving credit to the Trump administration for bringing down inflation; even though it was 3% when he took office on January 20th (up from the previous month & a six-month high, btw) whereas now it’s running at... 3% (as of September, the last time official data was available).

“AUTOPEN”... A cognitively dissonant screed on Pravda Social trashing “Sleepy” Joe Biden; presumably written by Dan Scavino, Steve Cheung, or some other White House minion to soothe the ego of “The Nodfather”.

Behold the baffling incoherency of failed hedge fund manager (and soybean farmer!) Scott Bessent attempting to wriggle out of the box Trump put him in w/ his insane tariffs and latest vow to issue a “dividend” on revenue from the import tax that he insists they’re not paying. 🤷‍♂️ tinyurl.com/2z33ac5e

Aside from the vastly higher total interest involved (double that of a 30-year loan), the erosion of equity building associated w/ “renting from the bank” and the scheme being likely to drive up both interest rates and housing prices for everyone… another super Trump idea! 🙄 tinyurl.com/2p9m5fc9

“If McCarthyism today feels less like a dark chapter of history than an unfinished project, that is because Jean insisted on keeping the flame alive. In many ways, she — not Joe — proved to be the movement’s most enduring architect.” tinyurl.com/2zcfcses

Let them eat steak... While his DOJ was busy thwarting the provision of food stamps to millions of Americans, Trump was partying w/ privileged supporters at a lavish event featuring a menu of beef filet, truffled gratin dauphinoise, pan-seared scallops and a trio of desserts. 🤨 tinyurl.com/zmyvbypd

ICYMI: The US State Department sent a bizarre directive to embassies/consulates earlier this week instructing them to reject visas for applicants w/ certain medical conditions, including obesity, on the grounds that they could potentially take up domestic health care resources. tinyurl.com/4zx7wpf8

“In a Land of Clear Colours”... An experimental collaboration from 1979 between Brian Eno and Pete Sinfield (go figure) based on an absurdist sci-fi story by Robert Sheckley about a man who finds the world changing in ways he can never quite grasp... #Musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmWm...

Trump hardly even seems to be trying here. Must be tuckered out after yet another exhausting weekend of prancing about his opulent swamp castle and golfing on the taxpayer’s dime (well 710 million of them, actually).

It would seem that a message has been sent into the CONservative echosphere directing blonde-haired influencers to inform people that Pierre Poilievre is actually NOT a humourless little prick or a lightless chasm of negativity with all the compassionate warmth of a refrigerator. #CdnPoli

St. John the Evangelist Church in the Yorkshire village of Sleights. Often played in that graveyard as a kid because we lived directly across the street. My folks attended services every Sunday, but didn’t take long to realize it was mainly just for socializing over the tea/biscuits afterwards.

Too funny.

Compelling timeline sequence from the 2005 film “The God Who Wasn’t There”—a mythicist view questioning the existence of Jesus based on glaring omissions in the Pauline epistles and a host of historical anomalies w/in the differing accounts of the synoptic gospels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4-3...

It’s only by a perverse irony that writings of the Greek philosopher Celsus have been preserved; thanks to being the target of a feeble attempt by the Christian apologist Origen to refute his book “On the True Doctrine” questioning claims of the upstart religion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQcR...

“A Prioress’s Tale” (1865-1898). Laboured over for decades by the great Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, it depicts the “beautiful circumstance” in what is otherwise a quite horrific story from Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”; one involving murder & ending up w/ eternal hymn singing. #Art

Not that they’re wrong perhaps, but Trump and the entire Republican hackocracy really do seem to believe that their supporters are gullible, brainwashed morons that will accept anything; even being given the middle-finger, in effect, on a now fairly routine basis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7b-...

Noticed that the price of gold has nearly doubled over the course of Trump’s second term. Generally not something that signifies a sanguine view, no matter how much the regime proclaims that the US is “the hottest country anywhere” or claims “we have the greatest economy right now”. Sure.🙄

Here's a worth cause... The Healthcare Infusion is a volunteer-driven movement started by Tod and Jocelyn Maffin that seeks to connect US doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals with Canadian communities in need of their skills and expertise. #CdnPoli engageq.notion.site/infusionhosts

Alternative (i.e., non-US) destinations for Canadian snowbirds include Australia, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Portugal, Philippines, and Thailand. Even Vancouver Island (tho I wouldn’t recommend it). www.canadasnowbirds.com/snowbird-des...

Teaching an octopus to play the piano. Seriously amazing ingenuity and engineering skills (also, a remarkable degree of patience) by creator Mattias Krantz getting his little fishmarket rescue “Tako” to become an underwater keyboardist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...

The corruption never ends... By now a tiresome thought exercise, but imagine if Biden or Obama had shamelessly pressured owners to get a new NFL football stadium named after themselves (something that “will probably happen”, according to a White House source). 🙄 tinyurl.com/8pj86dba

Mary Trump snarkily torching her demented uncle and his sycophantic, ball-washing minions in what was “a banner week for stupidity and idiocy” even by the standards of this phenomenally absurd and ridiculous regime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuvz...

Ha. I happen to agree with this fellow geezer about several notable Prog Rock albums that were mercilessly savaged by music critics and reviewers back in the day, undeservedly so, we would argue. #MusicSky, #ProgRock www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwVJ...

Interesting review in the “Jacobin” by historian Michael Ledger-Lomas of the new book “Elbows Up! Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance”, an anthology of essays from prominent Canadian writers, journalists, and intellectuals that was published last month. #CdnPoli jacobin.com/2025/11/elbo...

DYK that Hitler’s black Mercedes-Benz 770 “Grosser” limousine can be found at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa? After being discovered by American troops on flatcar in 1945 it was used by the US Army prior to being sold to a Canadian collector in the mid-1950s who donated it to the museum in 1970.

The four “Guardian Spirits” from the Liberty Memorial. Carved by sculptor Robert Ingersoll Aitken, the 40-foot statues were hoisted into place in 1925. Each one is named for the virtue it represents (from left to right): Courage, Honor, Patriotism, and Sacrifice. #Art, #Sculpture, #VeteransDay

A thought-provoking video by writer/filmmaker Thomas Flight coming to grips w/ various questions about the relationship between AI and “art” (itself a challenging term to define) by distinguishing genuine art from the simulacrum of generative “artifice”. #Art, #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFit...

Marc Maron on Trump making America “Great” Again. 😆 www.youtube.com/shorts/r_wXW...

“Sleeping Cat Near a Bas-Relief” (date unknown) by Jean-Jacques Bachelier, a versatile 18th century French history painter and director of the porcelain factory at Sèvres (that still exists!). He also personally established the influential École Royale Gratuite de Dessin in 1766. #Art, #Caturday

A look at the dumb (and sometimes downright dangerous) design “features” of modern automobiles that are often just gimmicky innovation for the sake of it and complex “solutions” in search of non-existent problems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauQ...

One of the Art Deco murals at NOLA’s Lakefront Airport. Painted by Xavier Gonzalez in 1934, they were previously covered by wooden panelling as part of a hideous 1960s remodelling. Saved from the wrecking ball after Hurricane Katrina, the building has since been restored to its original glory. #Art

The latest employment figures from Canada, the US (via alternate sources), and Mexico for the month of October 2025 reveal differing pictures of how Trump’s highly questionable trade and economic policies are impacting the three countries.

“Now, it’s comical that this big, brutal warrior would get on the stand to say that he literally felt assaulted by a sandwich exploding... It’s more [so] that Dunn’s attorney then showed Larimore a photo of the sandwich on the ground. Wrapped. Not exploded.” 😆 www.publicnotice.co/p/sandwich-g...

Political circus on the Hill… #CdnPoli

“Architect’s Handkerchief” (1999) eye-catching steel and fibreglass sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO. #Art, #Sculpture

And so it’s come to this. 🙄

Three Davids discussing the current turmoil rattling Pierre Poilievre’s CONservative Party ahead of a final confidence vote on the Libs’ budget scheduled for Nov. 17th and the threats to his leadership with a review looming on horizon at the end of January. #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0xn...

Mega-knumbskull Chris Cuomo beclowning himself in defense of his older sex-pest brother being subtly mocked by Zohran Mamdani by denouncing him and other progressive Democratic politicians as “angry,” “mean people” and America-hating “posers”... 🙄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Pz...

A brief peak into the incredibly weird, demon-haunted, and remarkably self-centered world of Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS8Q...

An appropriately catty/snarky critique of the ill-fitting gowns, poorly picked tuxedos, and other fashion fails worn by MAGA celebrities and the many cable TV hosts (mainly from Fox shows, natch) who walked the red carpet at last night’s 7th annual Patriot Awards ceremony. 😆 tinyurl.com/2p8y7vhw