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Secular Sunday – By Any Standards, The Catholic Church Is A Corrupt Organization

Imagine for a moment that a big, admired multinational corporation, one selling a beloved product, was employing large numbers of male pedophiles and rapists, operating in rings all over the world, and that their crimes had been uncovered in Australia, Ireland, Canada, the Philippines, Belgium, France, Austria, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, Britain, Germany and the […]

¶ Posted 26 August 2018 § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, history

Retro Friday Fun Link – Fred Armisen Does Accents To The City Level

A Netflix interview between Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman led me to this…

¶ Posted 17 August 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – The Kids Celebrating Their Heritage at #Mosaicyqr

Should’ve called it “The Escape Castle“? What I imagine a Scottish princess would say… And of course, haggis!

¶ Posted 02 June 2018 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Friday Fun Link(s) – Game of Scones: The Royal Wedding That Once Upon A Time Might Never Have Been Allowed

Metafilter has tons of links, trivia and commentary about tonight’s (tomorrow’s?) Royal Wedding. If you read nothing else, you should check out the NYT FAQ for sure!

¶ Posted 18 May 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history

Music Monday – “I am a poor boy too/I have no gift to bring/That’s fit to give a King/Shall I play for you/On my drum?”

Continuing our December Music Monday theme of re-imagining well-known Christmas songs, let’s go to the ultimate fitting cover – Ringo Starr doing “Little Drummer Boy” (Hmm, I also unintentionally ended up featuring Christmas songs/covers by two of the four Beatles. Perhaps that should’ve been the theme as well?) “The Little Drummer Boy” – Ringo Starr

¶ Posted 18 December 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, music

Music Monday – “Karma police/I’ve given all I can/It’s not enough/I’ve given all I can/But we’re still on the payroll”

“Karma Police” – Radiohead

¶ Posted 06 November 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

“In a word, pleasure. It’s like my pleasure in other people’s leisure.”

¶ Posted 27 September 2017 § Humour § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, language

Dates of When Various Countries Adopted Universal Healthcare and When They Gave It Up As A Total Disaster

¶ Posted 01 August 2017 § Canada § Infographic § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, history, unitedstates

Europe’s Top Things To Do According to Trip Advisor

(via Reddit)

¶ Posted 19 July 2017 § Infographic § MemoryLane § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, holiday, travel

Music Monday – “Take me to the place where you go/Where nobody knows if it’s night or day/But please don’t put your life in the hands/Of a Rock ‘n’ Roll band/Who’ll throw it all away”

Yesterday’s “One Love for Manchester” concerts, pulled together only a couple weeks after a terrorist bombing at an Ariana Grande concert are being compared to the 1970’s “Concert for Bangladesh“, the 1980’s “Live Aid“, the 1990’s “Tibetan Freedom Concert” and the 2000’s “Live 8” as another in a long line of notable benefit concerts – this being […]