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Five Books That Explain Why The World Is Fucked (Uhm, Happy New Year?!?)

Let’s start the New Year off right – with a list of Five Books That Explain Why The World Is Fucked. (via Reddit) (Happy New Year?!?)

¶ Posted 01 January 2019 § Humour § List § News § PopCulture § Sad § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, history, science, weather

Music Monday – “It’s Christmastime in Washington/The Democrats rehearsed/Gettin’ into gear for four more years/Things not gettin’ worse”

“Christmas in Washington” – Steve Earle

¶ Posted 24 December 2018 § MusicMonday § News § United States § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, holiday, unitedstates, xmas

Trump Gets NanChucked

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer = Nanchuck (credit to Don Lemon on CNN for that) and this video is beyond fascinating – that Trump invited the media to watch the discussion, that Nancy Pelosi fact-checks Trump to his face repeatedly, the absolute silence of Mike Pence, the body language of everyone involved, and, most insanely, […]

¶ Posted 12 December 2018 § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, unitedstates

Some Thoughts on the Changing Nature of Intellectual Freedom In Librarianship (Maybe?), The “Neutrality” Thing, and How I Sometimes Feel Like My Grandpa Missing The Boat on Elvis

So I recently got tagged on Twitter by a librarian colleague in Saskatoon (who is both a Mover and a Shaker!) asking if I (and a few other online librarian-types) had any thoughts on the changing view of intellectual freedom within the profession, especially in light of wider changes in society which I took to […]

¶ Posted 09 December 2018 § Censorship § Library § LibrarySchool § News § PopCulture § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, freedomtoreadweek, language, philosophy

Friday Fun Link – Eric Bischoff TEDx Talk on the Similarity Between Pro Wrestling and Today’s News Media

Following up on my post earlier this week about the death of the Dynamite Kid, here’s another wrestling related one… Eric Bischoff started as an announcer in the old AWA then worked his way up until he was head of WCW when it came close to knocking off WWE as the dominant wrestling promotion in the […]