Category Archives: Humour

Secular Sunday – Atheists Among The Most Likely To Be Vaccinated, Evangelicals Among The Least Likely

Hmm, could the ability to trust science and use logic vs. the ability to believe in conspiratorial fairy tales and misplaced authority be part of this?

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Death Star or Christmas Star? (December 2020)

Saw this cool projection on a house in the neighbourhood last year…

Secular Sunday – To Avoid Controversy, Starbucks Should Put Bible Quotes On Their Holiday Cups

Saturday Snap – Gift Ideas for the Beatles Fan In Your Life (Hint, Hint)

“The Lyrics” is $75 at Costco?  Holy crap!  You can get like eight giant jars of dill pickles for that kind of money! 😉

Music Monday – “Send your letters off to Santa, baby/Tell him all your secret wishes too/Send your letters off to Santa, baby/Hoping all your wildest dreams come true”

It’s not quite December but we’ve already had our tree up for a couple weeks (which was also the timing last year – anything for some extra joy in Covid times!) and spent Sunday morning wrapping presents so I figured it’s time to start sharing some Christmas music too. Oh, and speaking of wrapping presents, […]

Friday Fun Link – Some “Other Duties As Assigned” Library Stories

A recent FB post by someone doing a presentation at a library conference asked for good “Other Duties As Assigned” stories.   A real mix of cool, gross and sad and pretty much everything in between as you’d expect. (I did my own list of these types of experiences a few years ago but its’ probably […]

Denise Batters Kicked Out of CPC Caucus

You love to see it… O’Toole has booted Senator Denise Batters from caucus.Of course, this is unlikely to shut her up. This may only embolden her. It’s also sending a statement as to what kind of dissent he will and will not tolerate, and it’s funny how he’ll tolerate anti-vaxxers but not her. pic.twitter.com/5ptC8NJ3tI — […]

Secular Sunday – Which Holiday Was Started By Devil Worshipping Pagans Again?

Saturday Snap – Swimming Lessons in the Age of Covid

Sasha missed her first week while we were waiting for a Covid test result (luckily negative!) Then when we arrive for this week, it’s a very different experience than ever before – proof of vaccination to enter a city facility, get a stamp to confirm to any other staff that we were screened by their […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – City Hall Swim (August 2009)

Well, almost…