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The Worst Day of Donald Trump’s Presidency?

Trump’s personal lawyer admits to knowingly committing illegal finance campaign finance violations at Trump’s direction while Trump’s former campaign chair is found guilty of multiple counts of bank and tax fraud as well. The BEST people!

Posted 21 August 2018 § Jobs § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Retro Friday Fun Link – The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain

This article should be mandatory reading before someone is allowed to use the Internet!

Posted 10 August 2018 § Infographic § Internet § List § News § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Retro Saturday Snap – Prairie Sunset

When my wrist is healed and I’m up to typing longer pieces again, I’m hoping to write a long percolating post about how the Sask NDP can make in-roads in rural Saskatchewan. But until then, had a great visit at Shea’s aunt and uncle’s on Saturday night…

Posted 04 August 2018 § Family § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Cost of A Broken Wrist? USA = ~$10,000, Canada = $12

Doing a lot of reading about various aspects of the scaphoid bone I broke in my wrist and always shocked to see American sites talking about the cost of healthcare (~$6000 – $10,000 for the x-rays, hospital stay and surgery I had) or how they would forego treatment completely due to a lack of health […]

Posted 01 August 2018 § Sad § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Owning People Online Is The Left’s Path To Victory

  According to recent polling, a staggeringly small portion of the 22-to-45-year-old demographic watches cable news, and in fact almost 50 percent of young people do not watch traditional TV at all, instead opting to get their content from online streaming services, social media, and the like. I’ve been a big believer in the power of the […]

Posted 17 July 2018 § Internet § MemoryLane § News § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Retro Friday Fun Link – Truth Is Better (Scarier?) Than Fiction (aka If This Was a Spy Novel, It’d Be Too Unbelievable)

This story of the FBI tracking deep cover Russian spies is pretty amazing…

Posted 13 July 2018 § FridayFunLink § News § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

“If that’s what you support, you’re an asshole. We don’t want you on our team.”

In this clip, comedian and UFC Commentator Joe Rogan goes off on the idiots of the world who use “well, they broke the law, shouldna fucken come over here” as an excuse to attack poverty-stricken, refugee mothers. Rogan is a Libertarian but he says this is an issue beyond political divides. He points out that […]

Posted 11 July 2018 § Family § Humour § News § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

“Dearest Father…” #SecondCivilWarLetters Wins Twitter on American Independence Day

My Love,Dusk. We're in position overlooking MAGA camp. I see their sentries' red hats in the dim light of their tiki torches and it steels my nerves. At midnight, we strike. May our battlecry, "Happy Holidays," strike fear. Send Kale. – Matthew#secondcivilwarletters — D-Fo (@ThisIsDFo) July 4, 2018   It’s quite clear that the increased […]

Posted 04 July 2018 § Humour § Internet § Meme § News § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Reefer Madness Reaches Canada

From Colbert (with bonus mention of Saskatchewan!)   Late night comedians are having a lot of fun with my home province actually (ffwd to 3:00 minute mark)…  

Posted 29 June 2018 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Protesting at the Saskatchewan Legislature, Then & Now (February 11, 2000) #skpoli #yqr

From my personal journal, February 11, 2000: Settle in to bed (well, a sleeping bag under a cafeteria table) about midnight. Oh, when we get back from grabbing our sleeping bags, I offer to bring a coffee to the security guard and end up having a big talk with him – about how he got […]

Posted 28 June 2018 § Canada § Family § List § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: