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[My Internal Monologue Right Now]

There’s lots of stuff going on in the news and politics and the world and on social media that feels interconnected and important and I’d like to talk about some of this stuff too. But increasingly, I don’t know how to do that without offending someone. Or saying the wrong thing. Or being attacked for even having an […]

YouTube Policy Changes – Censorship or Just Good Business Practice?

I think I’ve mentioned before that one of my highest marks in library school was, ironically, for the one class I took within our faculty but outside our department – a “History of Information” course that was offered through the journalism school. My final presentation in that class was about the future of online video […]

¶ Posted 10 October 2017 § Censorship § Internet § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, language, television, youtube

Music Monday – “Yeah, the lord is my refuge and fortress/My God with whom I trust/But I’ll never know why the wicked/Gets to prey on the best of us”

Hard to believe it’s only been a week since the worst mass shooting in modern US history. So many stories, speculations and even songs coming out over the past week. Here’s a new one from Eric Church, the Friday night headliner at the Harvest 91 Festival who had actually jumped into the crowd during his set […]

¶ Posted 09 October 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, music, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – All The People Who Are Not Jagmeet Singh

Because all brown people look the same to white people (even CBC reporters who should know better!), the good people at Vice have put together a guide to all the people who are not Jagmeet Singh.

¶ Posted 06 October 2017 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, ontario

New Trump Poll Out Today

¶ Posted 03 October 2017 § Humour § Infographic § Meme § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Me and monkey/Like Butch and the Sundance Kid Trying to understand/Why he did what he did/Why he did what he did”

The worst mass shooting in recent US history (so far) happened yesterday and I don’t even know what to say anymore. Should I talk about gun control? Mental health & personality disorders? Gun control? Media narratives? Gun control? Deja vu? Gun control? Disinformation? Gun control? Or should I just throw up my hands at the futility of trying to say […]