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Friday Fun Link – All Logos for 2018 US Midterm Candidates

This site is pretty cool, doubly so as it allows you to winnow down logos by colour, typography and other characteristics.

Big Winners of 2018 Midterm Elections

Sure, this clip is from Fox News but with such a beautiful grammar error, how can I not post it? 😉

¶ Posted 07 November 2018 § Humour § News § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, language, unitedstates

Music Monday – “The war has been incited/And guess what, you’re all invited/And you’re famous/Modernity has failed us”

“Love It If We Made It” – The 1975

¶ Posted 05 November 2018 § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

As we head towards a massively important election on Tuesday, I’ve been thinking about the differences between liberals and conservatives. Here’s a couple videos on the differences and why:

¶ Posted 04 November 2018 § News § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – A Versatile Sign @officialRPL Regent Place Branch #yqr #ReadAboutWeed #GuideToGanja #MaryJaneMonographs #GetBuzzedonBooks

Usually, the “Homegrown” sign at my library helps identify a display of Saskatchewan books or perhaps a display of books about gardening or agriculture or something along those lines. But with the legalization of marijuana this week, we found another way to use this sign… 🙂

¶ Posted 20 October 2018 § Canada § Humour § Library § News § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, health, history, science

Brazilian Inmates Can Read Books To Shorten Their Sentences (Not So Much in The US)

This is a pretty cool, innovative program with a lot of potential to pay ongoing dividends. And of course, the US is doing the opposite with prisons in Pennsylvania where inmates are no longer being allowed any form of print book sent by family members or charities but they can buy overpriced, overly restricted ebooks, […]

¶ Posted 16 October 2018 § Censorship § Library § News § PopCulture § Sad § Technology § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, freedomtoreadweek, unitedstates

Optimism and Pessimism Around Climate Change

Optimism: The Sask NDP released a very innovative climate change policy as part of their annual convention which would see Crown Corps like SaskPower & SaskEnergy helping individuals, organizations and corporations underwrite a move to a green economy which is the best way forward to get off our current “track” and switch to another that could lead […]