Saideman's Semi-Spew

 This weekend has been a very angering one here in Canada and especially in Ottawa.  A mass of protesters, upset at vaccine and mask mandate...

 This tweet touched a nerve apparently. Damn it. Mr. O'toole. This committee was a good innovation to deal with a thorny problem. Inste...

Despite being relentlessly critical of stuff, I have always tended to focus on the arc of progress--that things will get better even amid th...

 I have long been a fan of mysteries, especially those featuring snarky detectives.  Robert B. Parker's Spenser will always stand out.  ...

JC & me, Lake Louise The Civ-Mil crew in Copenhagen I stopped doing quarantine reports last summer after Mrs. Spew and I had two shots ...

The past few years have been very frustrating, angering, saddening times for many Harry Potter fans as JK Rowling has allied herself with th...

The first year of the pandemic started well with several cool trips (researching in Germany, chaperoning in Japan, skiing out west) and som...

 I have taken to calling the Republicans the Party of Bad Faith because so much of what their leaders and members say they don't believ...

One of the notable absences in the Mandate Letter that the Prime Minister gave to Minister of National Defence Anand is any mention of a ne...

 Today, PMJT released his mandate letters that provide each minister with their marching orders.  I am most interested, of course, in the de...

 Today, the leadership of the Canadian Defence Team apologized for decades of sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination.  This was req...

 Yesterday, the CDSN and CSIDS held the Year Ahea d, which is an annual conference in Ottawa (and beyond).  The idea is to address some of t...

 I keep losing track of the pandemic--it really is year 2 with year 3 on the horizon.  I am thankful that no one in my immediate family has ...

I wrote the following for an outlet that is now going through some editorial turnover, so I decided to put it here instead.   The Canadian...