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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.

¶ Posted 04 April 2021 § Canada § Infographic § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, economics, education, history, science

Exponential Growth: A Commonsense Explanation

When something is going through exponential growth, even in the early stages, most people completely underestimate how quickly things are going to change, even when the exponential growth has been going on for quite a while. Some humans are really bad at understanding math.

¶ Posted 24 March 2021 § News § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, saskatchewan, science

Leadership

¶ Posted 23 March 2021 § Infographic § Jobs § News § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, philosophy, saskatchewan

Covid-19: A Year in Review

But remembering the past is also a way of believing that this moment will someday be the past. Which is to say, nostalgia for the past is also a way of believing in the future. Daydreaming about the After Times — the Before Times’s mythic counterpart — is in part an exercise in imagining what it will […]

¶ Posted 18 March 2021 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § News § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § Sasha § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, health

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Twitter Account From The First Month of Covid (March 2020)

We’re into the same month as when Covid became real and the world shut-down mid-month so I’ll likely be posting a few different retrospective posts, whether it’s “Throwback Thursday” or not over the next few weeks. For example, here’s all my tweets from March 2020. I loved this tweet (but not that I managed a […]

¶ Posted 04 March 2021 § Humour § Library § Meme § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, history, science

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – #FTRW – Day Seven – Saturday Snap – My 2021 Library #FTRW Display

I always enjoy trying to come up with something creative for a FTRW display at my library and this year was no different. Going back to what I said earlier in the week (in a post that had a display we did just as Covid was starting to turn towards pandemic status in early […]