Bring on the crazy!

I'm seeing some crazy stuff tonight on the social.

Like this:

As an electrician, i'd like to remind Pierre Poilievre that we don't capture lighting from the sky. We work together with other trades, engineers etc to produce electricity which was made possible by left wing indoctrination education (aka the same science that produced vaccines) https://t.co/6vBFvnPzKS

— Patrick Gagnon (@patgagnon_75) January 3, 2024

At least Canadians are enjoying this:

Texted my brother, who is an electrician. pic.twitter.com/o6TpdPi2mZ

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) January 4, 2024

My husband put on his Thor costume (don't ask, what happens in the bedroom, stays in the bedroom) & he's on the roof with his hammer waiting for the next storm so we can harvest some free electricity.

I'm inside batter dipping my husband's corndogs.
Because we're EXTRA ordinary! https://t.co/8CzyHWXVsO

— Kassie Dee 🇨🇦🇨🇿✡️🇵🇸🇺🇦🕊️ (@Kassie__Dee) January 3, 2024

Here's some more crazy stuff :

At Routine Proceedings, Dale Smith summarizes the Saskatchewan carbon debacle in Roundup: Legal fictions around the carbon levy refusal

...the big story domestically remains that Saskatchewan is planning to move ahead with their plans to stop collecting the carbon levy on heat, and hoping that they won’t suffer any repercussions for it. This includes trying to put forward some legal fictions like trying to register the Government of Saskatchewan that’s the seller of natural gas and electricity rather than Crown corporations like SaskEnergy, which the federal government would be well within their rights to reject outright because it’s a fig leaf attempting to protect those Crown corps for breaking federal law. And to add to that, the provincial minister has been spinning the falsehood that the federal “pause” on heating oil won’t reduce the rebate, and that the rebates in his province should be secure if they stop collecting the levy, which is also false–the rebates will be reduced because that money comes from collecting the carbon price—it’s not a federal entitlement programme out of general revenue.

The feds need to start using "carbon cash-back" instead of "carbon tax", because we just don't understand what is going on:

Has a single Saskatchewan media outlet pursued a single one of the politicians, federally or provincially, who are f**king around with this potential economic hit to many of the province's residents?
Or are they just going to keep cheerleading "SCotT MOE SaYS nO mORe CArbOn TaX" https://t.co/rrvt97I1I9

— Tammy Robert (@tammyrobert) January 2, 2024

More crazy about the Claudine Gay resignation:

I wrote about the Claudine Gay fiasco.

Harvard’s president is not the real story. The real story is that academics and journalists have spent the last few weeks debasing our professions by insisting that plagiarism isn’t plagiarism. That it doesn’t matter. That we all do it. 🧵 https://t.co/iB8q9hGQgu

— Tyler Austin Harper (@Tyler_A_Harper) January 3, 2024

Yes, plagiarism is the problem here - Tom Nichols is right when he says Claudine Gay's resignation was overdue. Her accusers acted in bad faith but they're not wrong.

 Though all the uproar started because three university presidents refused to tell Congress that they would consider anti-semitism is hate speech. 

Which, clearly, it is. 

I still don't understand why they couldn't just say that. Oh, I know, there could still be a debate about whether phrases like "from the river to the sea" are anti-semitic, and whether speech is equivalent to action, and so on and so on. But basically, those university presidents let their students down when they just couldn't state a principle plainly.

It reminded me of this: