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Freedom To Read Week 2021 – Day Five – Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Calgary #FTRW Committee Council Presentation (February 2004)

Through my work with the Writers Guild of Alberta, I became involved with the Calgary Freedom to Read Week Committee. I can’t find it online now but my memory is that this committee of writers, librarians, publishers and social activists was formed after some MLA held up some book in the Alberta Legislature to denounce […]

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – Day One – Welcome Back! (And A Child Reads One of the Year’s Most Controversial Books, “Call Me Max”) #ftrw

I’m a huge Freedom of Expression guy and think Freedom to Read Week should be a highlight of every librarian’s calendar. I don’t think I managed to do it every year but ever since I was in library school in 2006 (also the year I started this blog), I’ve tried to do an annual series […]

¶ Posted 21 February 2021 § Censorship § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, freedomtoreadweek, health, language, science

Friday Fun Link – Best of “Flyin’ Ted” Cruz Goes To Cancun Memes

Also this… Aruba, Jamaica, Ted Cruz ain't gonna take yaBermuda, Bahama, just freeze or ask ObamaKey Largo, Montego, baby why don't HE goOh Ted won't take you down to Cancun, Mexico, HE'LL GET THERE FAST, you'll have no water flowThat's where Ted wanna go, while you're covered in snow — Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) February 18, […]

¶ Posted 19 February 2021 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § Meme § News § PopCulture § Travel § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, travel, unitedstates

Trump Impeachment Opening Video

Donald Trump’s *second* impeachment began yesterday and this was one of the first videos shown summarizing the insurrection of January 6 (very telling it comes with a warning!)…

¶ Posted 10 February 2021 § News § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Secular Sunday – Voice Teacher Reacts to Garth Brooks’ “Amazing Grace” at US Inauguration

It’s like Tim Minchin says, “Some of the hymns that they sing have nice chords but the lyrics are dodgy” (though in this case, I’d say “Amazing Grace” is of the few religious songs that totally transcends its genre into an all-time classic, no matter your atheistic leanings!) 😉 Garth was good but this is […]

¶ Posted 24 January 2021 § News § PopCulture § SecularSunday § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, history, language, music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Asessippi Carnage

Four years ago this week, we were on our way to a ski trip in Manitoba. It was hard to know what the next four years would bring but we listened to Trump’s “American Carnage” Inaugural Address on the drive up and that provided a big clue. Such a relief that he’s gone.

¶ Posted 21 January 2021 § MemoryLane § News § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, travel, unitedstates

Inauguration Celebration Libations

¶ Posted 20 January 2021 § News § Photo § Shea § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

And To Think I Knew Him When… ;-) @aarongenest

A former colleague on the Ryan Meili Leadership Campaign v 2.0 (the tall blonde guy in the above picture) recently went viral with a tweet about how he was able to support one of his female employees during Covid. This even included his story getting highlighted on ABC’s “Good Morning America”! I’m not a big […]

¶ Posted 19 January 2021 § Jobs § LibrarySchool § Meme § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, twitter

Music Monday – “I’m gonna tell you fascists/Sure might may be surprised/There’s people in this world/And we’re getting organized”

Happy Inauguration Week! “All You Fascists (Bound To Lose)” – Billy Bragg

¶ Posted 18 January 2021 § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, music, unitedstates

Elizabeth Was Not Ready For The Revolution

I’ve read a lot of articles and commentary about the attempted coup at the US Capitol a couple weeks ago but this might be my single most favourite thing to come out of it: Doubly so for this remix (don’t normally link to Instagram but hard to find it on YouTube and Twitter – maybe […]