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Best Overall Team in Regular Season, Tampa Bay Lightning, Swept In First Round of Playoffs

I occasionally do a post with my picks at the start of the NHL playoffs. I forgot to do so this year but it’s probably not worth it as quite a few series aren’t going the way I’d expected – my Calgary Flames are struggling after winning the Western Conference title in the regular season, […]

Posted 16 April 2019 § Canada § News § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I have lost my way/But I hear tell/About a heaven in Alberta/Where they’ve got all hell for a basement”

These aren’t my photos but I thought this montage of Alberta shots – in all its natural beauty and manmade ugliness – was appropriate with the big election coming up tomorrow. “All Hell For A Basement” – Big Sugar

Posted 15 April 2019 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “There’s the progress we have found (when the rain)/A way to talk around the problem (when the children reign)/Building towered foresight (keep your conscience in the dark)/Isn’t anything at all (melt the statues in the park)/Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky”

This song is usually interpreted as being about acid rain but on the day Saskatchewan (and three other provinces) has a federal carbon tax enacted, I thought it was appropriate… “Fall On Me” – R.E.M.

Posted 01 April 2019 § Canada § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Comparing The Cuts: Cornwall Alternative School and Saskatchewan’s Public Libraries #skpoli

I was having some bad flashbacks over the past few days after the Sask Party released their budget last week that included an unexpected, unnecessarily cruel cut. But instead of cutting funding to public libraries and threatening to destroy a 100-year old, world-leading system like they did two years ago, the Sask Party targeted Cornwall […]

Posted 27 March 2019 § Library § MemoryLane § News § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Democratic Presidential Candidate, Andrew Wang, on Universal Basic Income

The guy seems like a longshot but so did Donald Trump four years ago!  

Posted 19 March 2019 § Jobs § News § Technology § United States § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

I Mean, There’s A Lot You Could Say About Trump’s “State of the Union” Address…

…but this really sums it up:

Posted 05 February 2019 § Humour § Meme § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Paths to Victory for 2020 Democratic Hopefuls

So it looks like there could end up being a few dozen people running for President as a Democrat in 2020. Based mostly on my own reading and research plus a fair bit of gut feeling, here are quick summaries of who I think could win (and how), ranked roughly by how I see their […]

Posted 03 February 2019 § List § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – What’s The Worst That Can Happen If Your Mom Is A Nurse and Your Dad Is A Librarian?

I can only hope our son escapes the indignity of becoming Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada! 😉

Posted 26 January 2019 § Family § Jobs § Library § Pace § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

.@aoc_dances Is My New Favourite Twitter Account Today

So you may have heard that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had an “embarrassing” video of her dancing in a college video (which, in turn was a remake of an earlier mash-up) highlighted recently but that it didn’t go as well as the anonymous right-wing troll who tweeted it had hoped. Unsurprisingly, instead of embarrassment and scorn, […]

Posted 08 January 2019 § Humour § Internet § Meme § News § PopCulture § Technology § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Five Topics of The Holidays

I realised that our social calendars this holiday season were as full as they’ve been in years due to a little miracle called “Pace Gets His Home Alone & Babysitting Certification”. So compared to other years where we had the hassle and expense of lining up babysitters if we wanted to go out, this year, […]

Posted 06 January 2019 § Jobs § Library § List § MemoryLane § Shea § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,