Bart Hawkins Kreps

Bart Hawkins Kreps
Location
Canada
Birthday
November 21
Bio
As an American expatriate, I struggled for 30 years with the question of whether to become a citizen of Canada. On the one hand, Canadians still must swear their fealty to a bizarre, outdated, anachronistic medieval figurehead as our "head of state". On the other hand, we Canadians can truthfully state that our monarch no longer claims the right to imprison people indefinitely without trial.

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“An excellent post - you provide some important context that I haven't seen anywhere else (I've been reading the major English Canadian press quite a lo…”
About: Quebec Student Protests: What the Red Square Means
March 10, 2012 01:51PM
“Thanks for this -- an excellent post. As you say, the so-called nuclear disaster in Japan was a tiny event in comparison to the tsunami. And yet in nort…”
About: The Case for Nuclear Power on Fukushima Anniversary:U.S.Navy
February 15, 2012 09:38AM
“That is brilliant and beautiful. Rated. It's also the first valentine card I have stolen in many years (forgive me).”
About: Forgive Me
February 05, 2012 09:03PM
“Thank you Jeff. I have watched my own mother struggle with Parkinson's, and learned a bit from her and from her physiotherapist about how she must work…”
About: Live-Blogging Parkinson's: (Re)Learning To Walk
January 16, 2012 02:25PM
“It's hard to believe that someone would say in all seriousness: "If some Marine that fought them in battle fair and square ...." The most obv…”
About: Who’s to Blame for Urinating Marines?
December 20, 2011 06:19PM
“In some cases politicians really do respond to the wishes of the voters in substantial ways, even if they would much rather ignore the voters. But if a…”
About: Why “The Lesser of Two Evils” Isn’t (Expanded)
December 20, 2011 02:18PM
“Finally, American politics explained: "People have been holding their noses so long that some of them have suffered some brain damage from lack of…”
About: Why “The Lesser of Two Evils” Isn’t (Expanded)
December 19, 2011 11:06AM
“Rated. The court proceedings sound really interesting, although I won't go so far as to say I wish I were there. Any info yet on the next incarnation…”
About: Steve Jobs To Be Reincarnated As PC
October 16, 2011 01:05PM
“Very well put, Sage. It's astonishing how large a percentage of Americans now back the legal principle that "there's no need for a trial if we all…”
About: Abuse of Power: The Al-Alwaki Execution
September 21, 2011 11:47AM
“A very sad and moving story, but so beautifully told. It brings back so clearly what it was like to be young and hopeful in America at the beginning of…”
About: A Political Education
September 07, 2011 11:18AM
“Amen, Norman! Rated. Obama was Wall Street's preferred point man in the 2008 election, because he was the person who could shepherd most progressive vo…”
About: Telling Obama to Politely Go Fuck Himself
May 27, 2011 05:28PM
“Amen! Unlike most of the clowns in the Senate, Franken knows when a joke has gotten really tired — so he voted against the "Patriot Act"…”
About: The next US President will be from Minnesota
May 17, 2011 09:43AM
“This guy has already been convicted in a fair trial of everything he's been charged with, right? Cuz if it is established fact that he committed these…”
About: Sexual assault is OK if our side does it
May 12, 2011 08:23PM
“Just an hour ago, I read an article rating Minnesota as "The Most Hipster State in the US" (http://tinyurl.com/42b97v6), and I was happy to b…”
About: Shooting First in Minnesota
May 10, 2011 06:49PM
“One could hope that after the death of Bin Laden, with a hunger for vengeance sated, the US might return to its founding principles of law. Unfortunate…”
About: Bin Laden's Death Sparks Rethinking of US Policy in Afghanis
April 16, 2011 09:37AM
“Obama has the backbone to tell his Democratic base to piss off. Do Democrats have the backbone to return the favor?”
About: Job Search
April 04, 2011 11:21AM
“This was not a case of one extreme act begetting another equally extreme act. This was the case of some people responding to the burning of a book by c…”
About: Extreme right-wing symbolism sparks more violence
March 20, 2011 10:29AM
“Lea, you pose some very good questions, and as others have noted, they are questions none of us could truly answer unless we found ourselves in a simil…”
About: Would You Consider Dying to Save Your Country from Dying?
March 19, 2011 11:25AM
“"If the reactors suffered no damage from the earthquake, why should they have been shut down?" I'm no electrical engineer, but the answer seem…”
About: Short and Sweet: Are We This Dumb?
March 18, 2011 01:31PM
“Thanks so much for this post! For many people, radiation has connotations of absolute evil -- there is no time to consider how much radiation, or what t…”
About: The Radioactive Nightmare
March 08, 2011 03:11PM
“A few comments about price: the most plausible scenario is that the price will go up and down like a roller coaster, but each peak, and each valley, wi…”
About: Unexpected Admissions on Peak Oil and Climate Change
January 26, 2011 08:39PM
“Rated, and I would have been really happy to hear Obama make most of those points. But I disagree with the suggestion the US has gone deep into debt to…”
About: Rebutting Heads
December 28, 2010 01:26PM
“The only solution is avoidance: just move to Canada.”
About: Yankee My Ass
December 14, 2010 09:07PM
“Excellent summary and commentary -- rated. Here's one more "it gets worse" -- when the ObamaDems hand over the White House at the end of their…”
About: Pundits Punch and Congress Cowers: Bill Bans Gitmo Transfers
December 10, 2010 09:59AM
“If there is a prosecution of Assange for the leaks, I would regard it as a trial balloon. If it can be established "legally" that Assange is…”
About: Will the NY Times get caught the WikiLeaks probe?
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