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The Need to Read: Books Remain One of the Best Ways of Engaging With the World, Becoming A Better Person and Understanding Life’s Questions

This is a great article from the Wall Street Journal which is extra relevant in the post-factual world of Donald Trump (who, just today, is now claiming he not only won the electoral college but also won the popular vote and Hillary only won due to millions of people voting illegally. This is insanely incorrect and therefore, […]

¶ Posted 27 November 2016 § Censorship § Library § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, language

Shitty News Countdown

10. Buying a drink at a local drug store recently, I got asked if I qualified for the “55+ Senior Discount”? (Apparently I should’ve bought a kit to dye this 43 year old’s grey beard!) 9. The Sask Party has announced a massive one billion dollar deficit which echoes the fiscal mismanagement of Brad Wall’s […]

¶ Posted 23 November 2016 § Canada § List § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Why Trump Will Smash Hillary (May 2016 video)

I had this bookmarked a long time ago but never got around to watching it. But it’s very prescient knowing what we know now…

¶ Posted 22 November 2016 § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Everybody knows the war is over/Everybody knows the good guys lost/Everybody knows the fight was fixed/The poor stay poor/The rich get rich.”

Leonard Cohen is dead and Donald Trump is President-elect. What a strange world we live in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkR1BkMUeE “Everybody Knows” – Leonard Cohen

¶ Posted 21 November 2016 § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “From the Monogaleh valley/To the Mesabi iron range/To the coal mines of Appalachia/The story’s always the same/Seven-hundred tons of metal a day/Now sir you tell me the world’s changed/Once I made you rich enough/Rich enough to forget my name”

Still recovering from the US Election results, I ended up listening to Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad” album this morning which seemed like a good fit with what happened in the Rust Belt last week (tellingly, in the New York Times story in that last link, the man who inspired the Springsteen song I’m posting […]

¶ Posted 14 November 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, language, music, unitedstates

Two Competing Views of the US Election Result

“I Voted For the Middle Finger, The Wrecking Ball” – The Atlantic I am tired of the machine rolling over us—all of us. The Clinton machine, the Republican machine, the big media, investment banking, hedge fund carrying interest, corporatist, lobbying, influence peddling, getting elected and immediately begin fundraising for the next election machine—they can all […]

¶ Posted 13 November 2016 § Library § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, history, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – 19 Totally Real Conversations Obama and Biden Have Had Since the Election

Not too much funny about the election results but this made me chuckle.

¶ Posted 11 November 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, twitter

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “I’m Voting Obama” (November 2012)

Happier times… And when Cam Broten beat Ryan Meili by 44 votes out of thousands cast after Ryan was widely expected to win, I learned the hard way that you can never count someone out. I never thought Trump could beat Clinton but I never assumed it was a sure thing either. In fact, I […]

¶ Posted 10 November 2016 § MemoryLane § Politics § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, saskatchewan, television, unitedstates

My Electoral Map Projection

I’ve got a couple fun picks (Alaska and Utah go Democrat?) but with how crazy this whole election has been, why not have one last unexpected moment? (If I was being really crazy, I’d pick Hillary to flip Texas – *that* would be something!) You can play too!