The son of conservative icon, Phyllis Schlafly, Andrew Schlafly has set-up a conservative alternative to the “liberal-biased” Wikipedia called “Conservapedia“. (via MetaFilter which includes some of the funnier excerpts from the site.)
Now, far be it for me to take all the credit for Saskatchewan's first-ever Family Day. But I would like to point out that I made a very accurate prediction, way back in July 2006 about a holiday that was announced in late October of that same year (er, if you ignore the part where […]
Reason magazine recently declared the “end of the post-9/11 era” citing a story linking Zsa Zsa Gabor with Anna Nicole Smith after the latter's death. Hard to argue with that. The whole media frenzy around the Anna Nicole Smith death the other day shows that we're truly back to the way things were on September […]
Saskatchewan Round-UpSask Government Insurance, a crown corporation that provides insurance to all drivers in our province, is offering $180 rebates to safe drivers on their automobile insurance and lowering rates by an average of 5% as well (when we already have the lowest auto insurance rates in Canada – why do you think I love […]
Reading a Joel Stein article in Time magazine led me to this piece he wrote which got quite a lot of attention and controversy early last year. It’s about what a cop-out it is to be anti-war but to say you “support the troops.” When you volunteer for the U.S. military, you pretty much know […]
Early in this blog's history, I came up with a little gimmick where I cover a bunch of miscellaneous things I've come across or want to talk about in conjunction with a holiday (search for “randomness” to see previous entries). I don't think I've done a “random” entry like this in awhile but the New […]
LISNews.org names The Top Ten LIS Stories of 2006 (via Stephen’s Lighthouse) The list is a bit tech-heavy and a bit US-centric but otherwise, provides a good overview of the year in libraryland. (That's kind of a goofy phrase but since a prof used it recently, I've started using it too!)I didn't do this when […]
“Librarians are extremely liberal and, thanks to our tax dollars, insulated from their consumers' preferences.” The National Post looks at the bias against conservative books in bookstores and public libraries in an article titled “Ignoring Canada's Conservative Readers”. (Thanks to Christina W. for the tip!) (By the way, the second last book I read […]
I don't know about you but when I come to the end of something – a job, schooling, a vacation or whatever – I start noticing how things tend to come full circle. Another example of this I noticed recently is that the year started with a federal election at the end of January that […]
Just a reminder that if you like reading this site (or if you don't and want something with more 100% library-related content with zero tangents about baby poop, Fred Eaglesmith and Saskatchewan), you might also want to boomark LibrarianActivist.org (or add it to your RSS reader.) Sabina's back in radio contact after being without Internet […]
