Recent content by Brad Sallows

Given how things are shaping up, just run another line mostly down the TMX and put its terminus at Cherry Point. BC'ers can stop bitching about tankers loading at BC ports. No need to duplicate a bunch of clearances and grease another set of palms. No need for any of the communities which...

Defending peoples' rights sometimes means denying the exercise of rights of a few people determined to eliminate the peoples' rights.

I'll assume that's a serious question. The people upset about mail-in ballots are upset about the window of opportunity for fraud which is created when it's possible to count most of the votes on election night, and then have an interval during which someone intent on fraud could, knowing...

A large cohort is aging out and transferring away its accumulated assets into end-of-life medical care, long-term care, various donations and bequests and whatnot while they are alive to enjoy giving, and inheritances. That all happens without government involvement, unless governments decide...

They are exactly the people making the most noise. They are analogous to people actively trading in volatile markets who get caught out by gaps between their liquidity and their obligations. People who own homes they live in (and who are not subject to conditions requiring them to frequently...

As I understand it, that's been changed with obstacle belts on the South Lawn and where the East Wing used to be.

Senate war powers resolution on the bus; senate war powers resolution off the bus.

Not necessarily. The Democrats have their own clown car filling up.

Apparently they're going to waterproof it with a blue goo and rewire it.

Another humorous day. On the one hand, models. On the other, accumulated data. At NRO, an excerpt from an article at The Telegraph (paywalled). The bit excerpted at NRO makes the amusing point: "Data from the OECD show that accumulated growth over 2016-25 was: UK (13.2pc), France (11.9pc)...

It's qualitatively the same as many communities which are mostly formed of people sharing an ethnic or religious bond. Mennonites, fringe LDS, Amish, various communes come to mind. In their own communities, they just want to be left alone to live as they choose. In a very few cases some of...

I think for almost all of them it was a novelty. And none were disturbed by it. I had a chuckle about 3 decades ago when, in a decidedly urban part of the GVRD, over the fence I heard a familiar squawking next door that was suddenly silenced. Chinese New Years' dinner, I suspect.

No, that would be the coyote that came after the stock. No problem, though. Under the circumstances shooting it inside city limits was OK. The head was mounted and became a totem for the Cub pack.

I'm re-reading "Fire in the Sky" by Eric Bergerud. (Air war in the south Pacific, 1942 to 1944.) He does a fairly long discussion of how the weapons came to be developed and chosen. p158 "During hostilities the demand for better weapons is pressing and obvious. However, there is also a...

In the early part of my life we lived where chickens could be kept, and chickens my parents did keep. Layers and meat birds - typically 4 or 5 dozen of the latter each year. The first year we butchered, my dad noticed the neighbour on one side watching. (These were 1/4 acre lots, so easy to...