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The Beautiful Delay: Why Soccer Still Grips The Smartphone-Trained Brain

This essay showed up on my FB timeline from some guy called John Gregory  I thought it was pretty insightful so am re-posting… After watching Portugal register just one shot on goal during the Portugal-DR Congo World Cup match the other day, I scratched my head over how soccer can be the world’s most popular […]

Posted 23 June 2026 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § PopCulture § Sasha § Sports § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Secular Sunday – Happy Parents’ Day?

I didn’t post this on Mother’s Day so I’ll post it on Father’s Day instead – a woman sneaks into a right-wing mother’s group on FB and starts posting about ICE and children being separated from their families. https://www.threads.com/@theletsnotdate/post/DYLoyAnjU_m  

Posted 21 June 2026 § Family § Humour § Politics § Sad § SecularSunday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Forlorn Link – Rest In Power, Bruce.

Not really a link and definitely not fun like my usual Friday Fun Link posts. But a friend posted the below on Facebook in reaction to the suicide of an Alberta man who was about to suffer from changes to that province’s disability support program. It hit me harder than it might have for a […]

Posted 15 June 2026 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Secular Sunday – Be Careful Who You Hate

Posted 14 June 2026 § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Moral Injury

Someone recently told me about the term “Moral Injury” which is similar to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and also comes out of studies of the military. But where PTSD is about something that damages a person’s loss of sense of personal safety after a traumatic event or series of events, Moral Injury can occur when […]

Posted 10 June 2026 § Jobs § Politics § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The Guardian Posts An Overview of the Playing Styles of All 48 World Cup Teams and Capsule Profiles of All 1248 World Cup Players

An incredible bit of sports journalism by The Guardian here. A short summary of the playing style of all 48 World Cup nations and a short profile of all 1248 World Cup players. Bookmark and refer to the resources when watching the obscure matches: https://t.co/tdLGq8en0o — Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) June 4, 2026

Posted 02 June 2026 § List § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I say, “High”, you say, “Low”/You say, “Why?”/And I say, “I don’t know”/Oh, no!”

Awesomely fitting farewell from Stephen Colbert and “The Late Show”… “Jump Up/Hello Goodbye” – Stephen Colbert, Paul McCartney and Friends

Posted 25 May 2026 § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Secular Sunday – Who Exactly Is Teaching Kids About “Socialism”?

A bit of a different take on secularism.  But since it’s usually heavily religious conservative people yelling “Socialism!” at anything they don’t like, I’ll allow it…

Posted 24 May 2026 § Jobs § Politics § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

The Butterfly Effect of Trump’s Misadventure in Iran

Just incredible background and context to the butterfly effect of Trump’s egomaniacal disaster in Iran. https://t.co/0WNTcFvv5f — Dean Blundell?? (@ItsDeanBlundell) March 26, 2026

Posted 31 March 2026 § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Secular Sunday – The American Taliban Is Now Running the Pentagon

…and really the whole US government.  <ThisIsFine.jpg> The American Taliban is now running the Pentagon byu/Neptuneblue1 inatheism  

Posted 29 March 2026 § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,