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Amazon Prime Is An Economy-Distorting Lie

I’m trying as hard as I can to avoid buying from Amazon as I’ve grown to *really* dislike their business practices – from how they treat workers to resellers engaging in fraud to simply the fact that Jeff Bezos does not need one more penny of my money. I mean, Wal-Mart is a shitty employer […]

¶ Posted 02 June 2021 § Internet § Jobs § Library § News § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics

Music Monday – “I’m a white man living on a white man’s street/I’ve got the bones of the red man under my feet/The highway runs through their burial grounds…We’re all carrying one big burden, sharing one fate”

“White Man’s World” – Jason Isbell

¶ Posted 31 May 2021 § Canada § MusicMonday § News § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history

Important Reminder For Atheists/Agnostics/Secular Humanists/NonBelievers Filling Out The Canadian Census

If you are “not currently a practising member of” any religion, CFIC encourages you to select “No religion” on the 2021 Census, regardless of how you were raised, previous beliefs, or cultural affiliation. From the Canadian Centre for Inquiry… Most of you have now received your invitation from Statistics Canada to complete the 2021 […]

¶ Posted 05 May 2021 § Canada ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, history, philosophy

Blogs Are Officially Over…

¶ Posted 04 May 2021 § Blog § Humour § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: unitedstates

Reasons To Go Back to School / Reasons Not To Go Back To School

Regina Public Schools to return to in-class learning on May 3, 2021. https://t.co/YZayV5QOJv pic.twitter.com/OHaAUGGPED — Regina Public Schools (@RegPublicSchool) April 26, 2021 Regina Public Schools has announced that students will return to school on May 3 and there is lots of debate on social media and elsewhere about the decision. Five Reasons It’s Good […]

¶ Posted 28 April 2021 § List § News § Pace § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, science

Secular Sunday – No, Jesus Wasn’t White

¶ Posted 11 April 2021 § Humour § Meme § PopCulture § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, history, philosophy

Friday Fun Link – The Big Library: Books About Basic Income

This idea is growing in awareness and after the rush to create CERB a year ago, more and more people are seeing the benefit of some form of a universal guaranteed income. This is a great list of books to learn more about different aspects of the idea.

¶ Posted 09 April 2021 § Jobs § Library § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, Covid, economics, education, health, history

Music Monday – “Do you call it as you see it and you’ve always been that way?/Are you reminiscent of how things were back in the day?/Are you agitated with the young’uns always wanting change?/Well here’s your invite to a group of folks like you and me”

“Support Local” takes many forms. With the lack of live music, why not support a local musician or band by buying their songs (especially a timely one like this one which also has a great video!) “Pity Party – Blake Berglund

¶ Posted 05 April 2021 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, music, saskatchewan

Secular Sunday – The Cost of Religion in Canada

A nice confluence of events with it being Easter, me completing my taxes, and the Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) releasing a report on the status of churches as charities.