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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: saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”

“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have? They’re all just words on paper. They’re arbitrary. And they can be changed completely […]

¶ Posted 18 June 2018 § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § Travel § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, language, travel, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Only Ontario Vote (November 2006) #ElectionDay #OntarioVotes2018 #onpooli

With the Ontario provincial election happening today, I’m reminded of the time I unexpectedly got to vote in that province. It was while I was at Western completing my Master’s of Library Science degree and it happened during a federal byelection in London North-Centre which featured Elizabeth May parachuting in to try to win the […]

¶ Posted 07 June 2018 § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § News § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, ontario

Doug Ford or Donald Ford?

Godspeed Ontario!

¶ Posted 06 June 2018 § Humour § News § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, ontario

“That’s why everyone who works retail doesn’t tell you to go fuck yourself.”

(h/t DC on FB)

¶ Posted 31 May 2018 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § News § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, freedomtoreadweek, language

Myth America

(h/t to JB on FB)

¶ Posted 09 May 2018 § Infographic § News § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, unitedstates

Is “A Horse Is Loose In A Hospital” The Best Donald Trump Analogy So Far?

Fast forward to near the end of this clip for the joke…

¶ Posted 08 May 2018 § News § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Yeah, this is America/Guns in my area/I got the strap/I gotta carry ’em”

“This Is America” – Childish Gambino Some of the Things You May Have Missed MetaFilter weighs in Annotated lyrics This Is America: Donald Glover’s Video Is A Gripping Read

¶ Posted 07 May 2018 § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, language, music, unitedstates

Michelle Wolf at White House Correspondent’s Dinner (and Some Thoughts on Transgressive Comedy)

A while back on AskReddit, there was a question about “What will be the “smoking” of the next generation which our kids judge us harshly for?” At the time, I thought that it would be “eating meat” that would be seen by future generations as something that, although enjoyable, had a big negative impact on […]

¶ Posted 01 May 2018 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Why Did #HumboldtStrong Resonate So Strongly?

The outpouring of support after the horrible Humboldt Broncos bus accident that killed 16 people and left 13 more injured has been unprecedented. People from not only across Saskatchewan and Canada but indeed, from around the world, have sent money and condolences. Tonight, the GoFundMe page that originally aimed to raise $10,000 and is about […]