Why there’s still a US Embargo against Cuba, especially since the Cold War is over and it’s now easier for a US citizen to travel to Moscow than Havana, is a question I’ve pondered in the past but especially since our recent trip. Here are a few theories I’ve come across… 1. After I got […]
Apparently I wasn’t the only one who got inspired by Dwain Lingenfelter talking about his father at the recent NDP convention. The NDP candidate in my area, Jaime Garcia, writes about the inspiration his own father has been to him. Since the federal election’s been called, there have been lots of people grumbling that it’s a […]
How can all of YouTube not have a version of Bob Dylan doing “Political World”? Seriously??? Okay, here’s a cover by some dude in his bedroom… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUDPtiembxA
The Sask NDP’s convention is over and in just over a month, we’ll be having a federal election as well. So moving from provincial to federal politics, here are a few interesting articles & sites I’ve come across: Three Hundred & Eight – a Canadian version of the popular US election forecasting site, Five Thirty […]
I’m spending my weekend as a delegate at the provincial NDP convention and it’s a bit different experience than my first time attending which was the leadership race a couple years ago. This year’s a bit more subdued compared to that exciting time of course. But this year’s convention is equally intriguing for other reasons, […]
I’m at the NDP convention this weekend and one fun thing they did is release a YouTube playlist of all the candidate’s favourite songs. Reflecting the diversity of the party, there’s classics and country and indie and metal and dance. If you can’t be at the after parties, it’s the next best thing! One other […]
…his friends promise to have a six-month party in his absence. This is the video that was waiting on his Playstation when he got home along with an instruction to “push play”. (via MetaFilter)
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This site is pretty cool – people place a book cover in front of themselves in such a way as to make their body part of the cover (for example, if the cover shows a face, it will appear to be their face. Hmm, maybe instead of explaining it, you should just go look at […]
What Man Understands That He Is Dying Daily? – great carpe diem article about life, love and fatherhood (via RM Facebook post) The Economy of Cuba and Cuban Convertible Peso – insight into how the Cuban economy works 2011 : The Year of the Librarian – The Atlantic makes the connection at SXSW 2011 Behind […]
