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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 § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “For here am I sitting in a tin can/Far above the world/Planet Earth is blue/And there’s nothing I can do”

Canadian astronaut, Col. Chris Hadfield’s final message from the International Space Station before returning to earth after five months in space is quite fitting (and has already gone viral like so much of the other content he’s provided.  One great example - a geography teacher at a Nova Scotia Community College created a cool Google Maps mash-up which [...]

Posted 13 May 2013 § Canada § Internet § Meme § Mobile § MusicMonday § Photo § Technology § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also 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 § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Finally a Photo To Replace the Shot of Shea and I With Joe Clark in Calgary

I’d rather have a shot of a future Prime Minister than a past Prime Minister anyhow.  

Posted 16 March 2013 § Canada § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

#itshere #excited #cantsleep #goodluckall #skndpldr

Posted 09 March 2013 § MemoryLane § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

The Day Obama Won The Internet: The Inside Story of His Reddit AMA

Very interesting behind-the-scenes look at how Obama’s Reddit AMA was proposed, how it happened and how it impacted his campaign. This was a day of political-campaign and Internet firsts, the sitting president subjecting himself to a free- for-all question-and-answer session with a hardcore community of pot-smoking freedom junkies who hated drones and loved porn and [...]

Posted 09 January 2013 § Humour § Internet § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – 2012 in Four Minutes

I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video…  (If you prefer text links, this one has many of the same memes in the video.  And here’s a summary of the year from a Canadian perspective.)

Posted 04 January 2013 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Meme § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sports § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Wrapper’s Delight: A Brief History of Wrapping Paper

From The Atlantic.

Posted 26 December 2012 § Randomness § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

A Skeptical History of Christmas

Happy Festivus!

Posted 23 December 2012 § Censorship § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

I Am (Not) Adam Lanza’s Mother

This blog post by the mother of a mentally-ill son, posted in the wake of the Connecticut shootings, was making the viral rounds.  Although I found it an interesting piece of writing with potentially some good points being made about the stigma of mental illness and the struggles of families trying to deal with it, [...]

Posted 16 December 2012 § Family § Meme § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,