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Some Quick Thoughts On The End of The World

Coronavirus I was in a meeting tonight and in the course of about an hour, my phone buzzed to tell me that: 1) Trump was going to start heavily restricting travel from Europe to US; 2) the NBA was cancelling their season; and 3) Tom Hanks and his wife have the disease. It’s a wild, […]

¶ Posted 11 March 2020 § Politics § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, health, history, hockey, saskatchewan, travel

Republican Presidents: Venn Diagram Version

(via Reddit)

¶ Posted 04 March 2020 § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language, unitedstates

Why Does The “Bernie Bro” Myth Persist?

Because the media isn’t doing their job?

¶ Posted 11 February 2020 § Internet § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: twitter

Bell Let’s Talk – Counterpoint

Wednesday was Bell Media’s “Let’s Talk” Day which promotes removing the stigma around mental health by talking about it. While the idea behind it is a good and admirable one, there are also some things that make it quite problematic, especially when its a private corporation rather than government or non-profits working in that area […]

¶ Posted 29 January 2020 § Canada § Meme § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, rant

Music Monday – “I was takin’ everything they had to give/It wasn’t all that bad a way to live/Well I’m in this desert town and it’s hot as hell/But no one’s buyin’ what I got to sell”

“Jerusalem Tomorrow” – David Olney

¶ Posted 20 January 2020 § MusicMonday § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas/We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico/Every one of them except for me survived/And I am still alive”

There are very few songs that can make the hair on my arms stand on end. This song, a reworking of an older song I loved growing up. But instead of focusing on men dying doing manly things as in the original, the update is about women dying in service of larger social issues. Incredibly […]

¶ Posted 06 January 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, language

An Extra Emotional Day in “Hammond Housing”-Related News

Friday turned into an even more emotional housing-news related day then we expected. In addition to being the possession day of our old house for the new owners, we heard that the condo complex where we lived for a couple years during our time in Calgary was engulfed in flames displacing numerous residents only a […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Randomness § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, xmas

Friday Fun Link – How Black Friday Shopping Habits Are Changing

I admit that between things we need for our new house and the usual Christmas pressure to “buy, buy, buy!”, I had a fairly loaded Amazon cart on the go. But I read this article and just couldn’t do it – I mean, I know most corporations treat workers poorly and do anything in pursuit […]

¶ Posted 29 November 2019 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday, xmas

Secular Sunday – I’d Prefer A Sprinkle of Success in the Red Zone

As an atheist, I always chuckle at athletes who inject their religion into the game or somehow seem to believe that god is helping them win or have success or whatever. I have no idea how much the Riders’ new quarterback, Cody Fajardo, thinks god’s helping him have success but given his “sprinkle of Jesus” […]