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Monthly Archives January 2026

Secular Sunday – We Have 180 Catalogued Brain Biases That Are Not Compatible With The Modern World

Of particular relevance to the atheist typing right now is the idea that even if you lose religion, you will find some other tribe to give your life meaning – for me, that’s progressive politics and hockey fandom and other things that go beyond “I like this” to the secular equivalent of religious tenants such […]

Saturday Snap – One Way To Know Wrestling’s Fake?

One of their villain characters is called “The Educated” and brings a book to the ring as a weapon (which got used on Friday night to secure the victory!) but the owner of the company is a regular at the library I work at, always brings his kids, is a devoted dad who is clearly […]

¶ Posted 10 January 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Library § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Sports § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education

Friday Fun Link – Kids Intermission Game Hockey Fight at AHL Game

This is both horrifying and absolutely amazing!

¶ Posted 09 January 2026 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Button Maker (November 2013)

Full-on riding the Riders bandwagon the last time they were in the Grey Cup Final!

¶ Posted 08 January 2026 § MemoryLane § Photo § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Sports § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Wisdom Wednesday – Rebuilding The Working Class

Saw the story I’ve copied below online and it made me think of the current Federal NDP Leadership Race where this is a major topic of conversation. It was also in the first provincial NDP Leadership race I was involved in where I got introduced to the term “Granholier Than Thou” as someone who was […]

¶ Posted 07 January 2026 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Politics § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, language, orgdevl, philosophy

Avengers: Doomsday (Teaser Trailer)

¶ Posted 06 January 2026 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: movies

Music Monday – “And every, everybody dies/Fighting for their lives, just trying to survive Well now I know, I know why we say/That there’s a better place that waits beyond the grave, oh…”

Saw this on a Reddit thread about gut punch songs. And if you have a pet, yep – this one will hurt. It’s about putting a pet down but really, any pet you’ve had who’s died, at the end of their natural life or earlier due to accident or whatever, will hit similarly. “Euthanasia” – […]

¶ Posted 05 January 2026 § Charlie Echo § MemoryLane § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Secular Sunday – Carl Sagan on The Earth From Space

30 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took an image of our home planet from 6.4 billion kilometers away. Carl Sagan eloquently described what that image meant for humanity. pic.twitter.com/N1WRuuoTPr — Prof. Carl Sagan (@ProfCarlSagan) December 29, 2025

¶ Posted 04 January 2026 § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, education, science

Saturday Snap – How Sad Is It…

…that the free evening skate time at a local arena has about a million times more diversity than our recently re-shuffled Provincial cabinet which isn’t exactly “From Many Peoples Strength”?

¶ Posted 03 January 2026 § News § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – The Day Charlie Kirk Decided To Only Debate College Kids?

The day Charlie Kirk decided he was just going to debate college kids going forward. pic.twitter.com/lBlZPNhMQi — Boston Smalls (@smalls2672) January 2, 2026