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Michael Airton

Buying Off All The Climate Scientists and Other Dumb Shit

This is irking me.

2 min readSep 16, 2023

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Michael Airton

Climate Change and the 500 Million Army

Rocky VI is a better movie than you may remember. And that’s mostly because the final fight between Rocky and Ivan Drago is beautifully…

3 min readSep 14, 2023

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Michael Airton

They Now Say Objectively Stupid Shit and Their Followers Eat It Up

Jordan Peterson, Canada’s very own resident pop psychologist, this evening tweeted a copy of last year’s “World Climate Declaration” in…

3 min readAug 28, 2023

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Michael Airton

It’s Weird That They Care So Much Whether Arson Caused Wildfires.

There’s a scene in the first episode of the the miniseries Chernobyl in which Chief Engineer Nikolai Fomin greets party apparatchik Boris…

2 min readAug 27, 2023

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Michael Airton

The Age of Malicious Ignorance

There was a time for a few years where I called it “belligerent ignorance”, a term I picked up somewhere. But there’s a newer, more…

3 min readAug 11, 2023

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Michael Airton

2050 — A Hopeful Vision, For Once

I’ve realized lately that a glaring gap in leftist/progressive politics is its failure to articulate a clear, compelling, and hopeful…

4 min readAug 13, 2022

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Michael Airton

The Stakes of a War with Russia over Ukraine

As we watch the frightening drumbeats of war over Vladimir Putin’s foray into Ukraine, I’m disheartened by the usual verbal diarrhea from…

5 min readFeb 22, 2022

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Michael Airton

We’re All Going to Need Skills.

Because those in power probably aren’t going to do what’s necessary to prevent further global warming.

4 min readSep 20, 2021

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Michael Airton

Who Is Donald Trump? A Human Assessment

Donald John Trump left the office of President of the United States nearly seven months ago. His second impeachment, this time for…

8 min readAug 8, 2021

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Michael Airton

Confidence Is Not High: RBG, America, Canada, and the EU

First off, full disclosure. I’m Canadian. I’m not a historian, beyond the undergraduate level anyway. However, I’m certainly a lifelong…

8 min readSep 24, 2020

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Confidence Is Not High: RBG, America, Canada, and the EU

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Michael Airton

Michael Airton

Husband. Dad/stepdad. He/him. Aspiring writer. Lawyer. Student of contemporary history. Lover of rock music. Ex-optimist, now a hopeful pessimist.

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