Category Archives: News

“If adultery is so wrong then these people don’t want to be far-right.”

This parody account of the typical opinionated Trump supporter is one of my favourite things on the Internet…  

How Countries Around The World Have Responded to Covid-19

 

Music Monday – “These white boys with money make the whole world run/Let the wall hit your back/The?blood?hit your tongue/You?and me baby we’re the dangerous?ones”

  “The Dangerous Ones” – Kasey Anderson

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Naive We Were (School Year 2016-2017)

As June comes to an end, I have to post this meme I recently rediscovered. It’s funny how dabbing, fidget spinners and bottle flipping were the biggest issues a teacher had to deal with a few years back! I’m not up to doing a full photoshop job but can only imagine the updated version of […]

The Tragic Saga of Officer Stacey McMuffin

There’s been a huge amount of attention to police budgets and police brutality recently. It’s been so overwhelming that a 15-year veteran of a Georgia county police force had a melt down in a McDonald’s parking lot after her food didn’t come out right away and she thought the staff were likely planning to poison […]

Evolution of Covid-19 Case Numbers in Canadian Provinces

This is a good video but guilty of one of my biggest pet peeves of the data analysis of this entire pandemic – not using per capita numbers as a comparator. Without taking into account per capita numbers and barring some notable outliers (hello Alberta!), of course the most populous provinces are going to be […]

The Economic Impacts of Covid-19

This is a British article but many of the findings are going to apply for countries around the world – from increased unemployment to reduced airline traffic to positive environmental impacts and more.

“Coronavirus Is FAKE NEWS!”

Coronavirus is FAKE NEWS pic.twitter.com/YPzxrbaOZf — Brent Terhune Bloomington IN May 3&4 (@BrentTerhune) March 6, 2020   Released on March 6, I think this was the first video that I came across by this guy, maybe a week or two later. And like many people, I initially thought it was a real guy sharing his […]

Music Monday – “Blackbird singing in the dead of night/Take these broken wings and learn to fly/All your life/You were only waiting for this moment to arise”

  “Blackbird” – Paul McCartney

Friday Fun Link – You About To Lose Yo Job (Remix)

The situation in the US with the blatant police brutality and absence of any restraint or empathy in the actions of many police officers. But there are moments of levity including this “dance remix” of a protester who informed a police officer that he was about to lose his job because he was illegally detaining […]