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Refer Madness

Over the years, I’ve occasionally posted about some of the  search terms that were bringing people to my blog.  I did this once a few months after starting my blog in 2006 and again during the 2009 NDP Leadership Race and probably a few other times as well. I thought it might be interesting to re-visit the [...]

Posted 22 May 2013 § Blog § Humour § Internet § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

A Partial and Incomplete List of Reasons the NDP Lost The BC Election #skpoli #bcpoli #ndp

I went to a noon hour presentation at the Johnson-Shoyama School of Public Policy on “The BC Election and What It Means For Saskatchewan“.   One presenter got a good laugh off the bat joking about how he had to tear up his speaking notes in light of the stunning come-from-behind victory of the Liberals [...]

Posted 15 May 2013 § Canada § Humour § List § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “Oh Mr. Mom/Balancing check books, juggling bills/Thought there was nothing to it/Baby, now I know how you feel/Oh Honey, you’re my hero”

Back to work today after two and a half weeks at home with the new baby is pretty tough. I keep telling anyone who’ll listen that I’m really jealous of two guys I know who are both relatively new dads – one is a University professor who (I assume on purpose) timed his sabbatical year [...]

Posted 06 May 2013 § Baby § Family § Humour § MusicMonday § Sasha § Video § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Two Conventions; One Solution #canpoli #cndpoli #cdnpoli

The Federal Liberals and NDP had conventions this weekend and the respective leaders of each party were in the spotlight – Thomas Mulcair as Leader of the government-in-waiting and Justin Trudeau for being elected the Liberal’s new leader in a landslide. And for all the attention on those two leaders, one of the main things [...]

Posted 14 April 2013 § Canada § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

One Volunteer’s Inventory of the Sask NDP Leadership Race

I drafted this post about a week before the Leadership convention so you have to read it as if the election still hadn’t happened. I could re-write but really like that opening about “pre-emptive nostalgia” so wanted to keep it. Given what I’m writing about and how I ended it, I thought it fitting to [...]

Posted 11 April 2013 § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

What Is Politics About? (and Two Things I Want From The Sask NDP’s New Leader)

A couple weeks back, I attended the Federal NDP’s full day workshop on their “Prairie Initiative“.  This is an effort by the federal party to lay the groundwork for a similar breakthrough on the Prairies to the one they had in Quebec during the last election. The day was filled with speakers, presentations and break-out [...]

Posted 09 April 2013 § Canada § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

2013-03-27 – Seven Things In My Brain This Week

Finding the A&W at the Cornwall Centre food court closed for renovations tonight, a co-worker suggested that we should “nationalize the fast food industry.” I helped a visually impaired patron mix up a protein shake the other day.  Now *that’s* customer service! If politics is like sport, losing the leadership race by 44 votes is [...]

Posted 27 March 2013 § Canada § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea § Sports § TenThings § United States § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

‘Rasslin and the Tea Party

The WWE is currently running an angle where a couple of bad guy wrestlers (“heels” in wrestling jargon) are acting like members of a quasi-Tea Party-like group while a Mexican wrestler is the good guy (“babyface”) standing up to their bigotry. This is unique for a couple reasons – wrestling is not known for being [...]

Posted 24 March 2013 § PopCulture § Sports § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Some Thoughts On The Role of Social Media in the Sask NDP Leadership Race, Written on the Occasion of Twitter’s 7th Anniversary in 144 Chars

(Well, the title of this post is 144 characters anyhow.  The body of this thing will be *much* longer!) Twitter is celebrating the seventh anniversary of the first tweet ever which means today is as good of time as any to look back at what role social media played in the recent Sask NDP Leadership [...]

Posted 21 March 2013 § Internet § Saskatchewan § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Politics & Servant Leadership – A Perfect Match?

Ryan Meili has posted his concession speech from the day after the Leadership Convention and it didn’t make my Top 10 list of reasons I was supporting Ryan Meili but the fact that I’ve always found Ryan to be beyond classy, in good times and bad, was another reason I supported his candidacy.  Truly a [...]

Posted 17 March 2013 § Saskatchewan § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,