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The Next Tommy Douglas? Why I'm Supporting Ryan Meili For Leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party

As you may know, former Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert is retiring from politics and a race for the leadership of the Saskatchewan NDP is currently underway. When the first few candidates declared, I didn’t see anything that seemed different than what you’d expect – a former Deputy Premier, a current MLA, a young man involved […]

Posted 22 March 2009 § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Going to the Candidate's Debate…

There was a forum for the candidates for the NDP leadership tonight at a local restaurant so I headed over to check it out.  Here are some random impressions…– I arrived early and bumped into a young woman who looked really familiar but who I couldn't place.  She did the “you look familiar…” routine with […]

Posted 05 March 2009 § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Obama Comes To…Saskatchewan?

I was happy to see that after a long absence, the Sask Blogs aggregator is back up and running, better than ever. I was perusing it last night and happened upon a post on “Giant Political Mouse“, a lefty web site that focuses mostly on Saskatchewan politics.  This post mentioned that the provincial NDP leadership […]

Posted 20 February 2009 § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (22) °

A Single Reddit Screen Cap Shows Why Our World Is So Messed Up

Posted 29 January 2009 § Main Page § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

A Couple Interesting Inaugural Address Links

The Atlantic Monthly takes a look at the techniques and deeper meaning of Barack Obama's Inaugural Address.The Toronto Star presents word clouds of previous Inaugural Addresses including Obama's.  (Thanks to Sandra M. for this link.) Oh, and my former classmate, Ian L., got a shout-out on the highly-trafficked (and one of the first) Internet blog, […]

Posted 23 January 2009 § Main Page § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

President Barack Hussein Obama

MetaFilter.

Posted 21 January 2009 § Main Page § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Politics IS The English Language – David Foster Wallace on English Usage

“Consider the Lobster” is one of four (how'd that happen?) books I currently have on the go (the others – “Convergence Culture”, one about contrarian management principles which I can't remember the title of – probably “Contrarian Management”, and buzz book of the moment, “Twilight”.)One of the essays in the first book on that list […]

Posted 18 December 2008 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Maybe Saskatchewan's (Dairy Cows Are) On To Something After All

Saskatchewan is the only province in Canada that doesn't observe daylight saving time and the commonly accepted wisdom here is that the reason for this decision has to do with the fact that the time swap would be hugely disruptive to dairy cows – which apparently don't exist elsewhere in Canada.   (Oh, and in […]

Posted 22 November 2008 § Main Page § Saskatchewan § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Obama Front Pages From Around The World – What History Looks Like

He won.  And history looks like this…

Posted 05 November 2008 § Main Page § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Liveblogging The Election

Well, CNN has inspired me to start a live blog which I'll update as the night goes on…feel free to hit REFRESH if you want to hear my deep thoughts as the night progresses…6:17pmCNN has unveiled HOLOGRAMS into their coverage.  Jessica Yellin has just appeared in the studio like some weird Princess Leia!  (Oh God, […]

Posted 05 November 2008 § Main Page § United States ‡ Comments (0) °