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Secular Sunday – Love Thy Neighbour

Posted 20 June 2021 § Canada § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – The Covid-19 Vaccine Explained

 

Posted 18 June 2021 § Politics § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “Trump Trips Up” (~May 1991?)

I was going through some old papers in a box under the stairs recently and came across a folder of articles I’d clipped and saved, long before most articles from popular magazines were available online from databases or from the magazine’s own web site like they are today. Had to chuckle for a couple reasons: […]

Posted 17 June 2021 § Humour § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § Photo § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wouldn’t It Be Funny If Anti-Vaxxers Were Just People Who Are *Really* Scared of Needles?

 

Posted 15 June 2021 § Internet § Meme § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Secular Sunday – An Addiction Model May Explain A Lot of Our Current Societal Issues (That Don’t Normally Seem Like Addiction Issues)

This is a fascinating thread which encompasses a lot of interesting ideas – tribalism, how people get sucked further into wilder conspiracy theories, and even whether QAnon is showing signs of moving from a fringe political theory into a full-fledged religion. it’s conceivable to conceptualize political tribalism (& perhaps even cultism), through an addiction model […]

Posted 13 June 2021 § Internet § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Legends of Hockey: The New York Islanders

When I started following hockey as a young kid around the age seven or eight, the Islanders were the best team in the league. (Interestingly, I clearly remember friends who cheered for Boston, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Philadephia but no one else seemed to have latched on to the Islanders which is another reason […]

Posted 09 June 2021 § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

107 Year Old Irish Farmer Reflects on Changes He’s Seen (1967 Interview)

The single best presentation I did in library school was on the evolution of streaming video online and how it’s biggest benefit was how online video eliminates constraints of both time and distance that all previous dominant mass communications mediums – radio, television – suffered from. Like most 70s kids, I was pretty obsessed with […]

Posted 08 June 2021 § Internet § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Technology § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Let’s get friendship right/Get life day to day/In the forget yer skates dream/Full of countervailing woes”

“It’s A Good Life (If You Don’t Weaken)” – The Tragically Hip with Feist

Posted 07 June 2021 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Secular Sunday – Residential Schools: A Timeline

*Literally* the first words of this timeline discuss the central role of various churches in the creation of schools that took Indigenous children from their parents, communities and culture. For more than two hundred years [from 1600-1800], religious orders run mission schools for Indigenous children, the precursors to the Government of Canada’s residential school system.

Posted 06 June 2021 § Canada § Politics § Sad § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Amazon Prime Is An Economy-Distorting Lie

I’m trying as hard as I can to avoid buying from Amazon as I’ve grown to *really* dislike their business practices – from how they treat workers to resellers engaging in fraud to simply the fact that Jeff Bezos does not need one more penny of my money. I mean, Wal-Mart is a shitty employer […]

Posted 02 June 2021 § Internet § Jobs § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,