No Intercourse with Arachnids

The Reading List for 07 Oct 22

There was an Easter Egg in the earlier column today for those who can find it. Bonus points if you know what it refers to, without looking it up on the Internet. Paid subscribers can leave the answer as a comment on that column or this one.

Interesting that with all the foolishness at the Colonial Building this week, people focused on the last time the House of Assembly sat there after Confederation. The telegram used it as a jumping off point for a commentary in line with the themes of the Throne Speech as the former People’s Paper went decidedly with the lame Establishment messaging yet again.

Odd that with the exception of a cheesy preamble to a question by a Pea Sea on Thursday about the rioters in 1932 chasing Liberals from the building, no one mentioned the last time the building housed both the upper and lower house of the Newfoundland legislature *before* Confederation. It’s not something people talk about very much. They like to forget or, better yet, make up a story that allows them to ignore what happened in the past.

That theme cropped up in a side comment I had the other day and led me to jot down a note for yet another column at some point in the future. For now it will join the back-log of column ideas going back to last year, some of which were planned sequels. And yes, there is still the end of the Managed Democracy series to come.

Enough of the morning editorial notes. Let’s get on to the list of stuff you may be interested in reading this weekend when you are enjoying turkey, dressing, and all the traditions of the Thanksgiving weekend.

• Lawrence Krauss and his thoughts on touching ancient rocks in one of the remotest parts of the world.

• The Walrus looks at the financial discrimination sex workers face.

• Heather Cox Richardson looks at oil and the war in Ukraine.

• Are things in Britain as bad for the government as Sam Freedman thinks?

• Paul Wells on Trudeau, Legault and what comes next in Quebec.