290) The hidden subtext of Mark Carney’s WEF speech, and how it shows that while “everything is changing,” nothing is changing — (Also, Reason #38 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism)
I applaud Mark Carney for his speech, for throwing down the gauntlet, for taking a sttand against the fortress-like, impoverished world of “great powers” dominating everything. It was a powerful, epoch-shifting speech, and brilliant in its pragmatism.
But the world of depraved corporate greed that puts profit over people, over Life, over rights, over love, remains firmly in place. Just diversified.
289) Mark Carney’s History-making Speech - 2026 World Economic Forum
Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.
You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.
288) Iran, America, Freedom, Tyranny
Whatever you do, don't turn away. Bear witness. Be aware. And if you have ideas of how people can make a difference, if you have expertise to offer, if you know of organizations that are helping to change things, share this. Talk about it.
Iran may, right now, be clawing its way back to freedom. The United States is collapsing its way out of it, unless things change, and fast.
287) Dear Traditional Parents: I spent 16 years listening to your daughters. Here is what they told me.
I hope any “traditional parent” who does read this will, at the very least, be logical enough to realize that, if you want your kids to grow up healthy, your own approach tends to produce the opposite. It doesn’t “protect” your children. It harms them.
I spent sixteen years listening to your daughters tell me all about that.
286) Renee Good: In the words of her wife, Becca
Her last words, spoke with a friendly smile to the man who killed her, were “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”
285) Daniel (Danya) Naroditsky, 1995-2025
The chess world received some extremely sad news yesterday, with the loss of GM Daniel Naroditsky.
284) Death Before Dishonor?
Does "honor" actually mean anything, at least in the United States? …. Or is it a con job designed to dupe people into sacrificing their morals, and even their lives, for other people's greed?
283) Domestic Terrorism, Part 2 -- A challenge to men, all men. Yes, I'm talking to you.
Right now, teenage boys and young men all over the country have countless "influencers" telling them to hate. They need role models telling them the opposite.
282) Domestic Terrorism -- Part 1: MAGA
MAGA is a domestic terror movement. And the institutions in support of MAGA policies, financing, messaging, and influential leaders, including the White House, are terrorist organizations.
281) The terrifying rise in transgender mass shooters
I yearn for the day when MAGA realizes that facts don’t care about THEIR feelings.
280) Let's be up-front about the cultural roots of MAGA. And then fix them.
Who is Trump’s base? The data is already in. WHITE MEN WITHOUT COLLEGE DEGREES are Trump’s base….
279) The cost of feeding the dogs of war (and the utter imbecility of the decision-makers behind it)
Imagine that you wanted to personally fund a $10 billion [war], and you make, say, $80,000 per year. You would have needed to start working ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, about 60,000 years BEFORE stone-tool-using Homo sapiens were interbreeding with Neanderthals, and you would have had to save every single penny.
277) The Children Remember: Toxic families, and how and why they resist change, growth, and healing
Children always remember. While adults spin their self-justifying stories, make their excuses, give their false wisdom about '“seeing the best in everybody” and having “good Christian values,
the children remember the stark, experiential truth….
276) Day 37 -- Reason #37 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: FREEDOM, Part 2 -- Wealth = Power
The very foundation society is built upon is a foundation of wealth. This wealth, in turn, is far too often rooted in corruption, in war, in the pillaging of Indigenous lands for their “resources,” and in profit and a disregard for human freedom and well-being. This is ***The Big Problem***.
275) From a breaking heart
These are dark times. There are far darker ones ahead. This isn’t a game. It isn’t a joke. It isn’t a movie. And it won’t, necessarily, “turn out ok in the end”. In fact, in all probability, it won’t. If this was a Dungeons and Dragons game, then humanity’s saving throw is approaching 20.
274) The Canadian Chess Championship
Whatever the purpose of life is (if indeed, there is any at all), it must have to do with the phenomenological quality of life, the quality of our moments of being. It MUST have to do with joy. With concentrated immersion in the pursuit of excellence. With play. With community.
273) Criminals gonna criminal: So why do we keep giving them power over us?
As a society, we really need to talk about the safeguards around who is eligible to be elected to lead a country. And not just talk. We need to PASS LAWS that prevent criminals from gaining power over democratic governments. Cuz we sure as hell are seeing how THAT turns out.
272) Happy birthday, Clara
Rooted in authentic self-acceptance, in easy, free, love for your life, Joy is just there, moment by moment, from when you first open your eyes, to the middle of slurping your bowl of noodles, to walking down the street, to watching some TV show, to talking with a friend or reading a book. It’s just there.
It’s like how, when you wake up in the springtime and the windows are open, you hear birds. You just do. They’re just there, singing. Even on what might be a really tough day in your life, the birds sing.
271) Ukraine vs. America: What side are YOU on?
Before 1994, Ukraine had the THIRD LARGEST nuclear arsenal in the world. It gave up its nukes for promises of protection, the internationally-agreed-upon guarantee that Ukraine would retain its territorial sovereignty.
270) A child-turned-adult's rage and disgust in the adult world
Let’s make the future’s kids actually proud of the people who preceded them.
Rather than ashamed and angry.