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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 § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, unitedstates

List of Flags By Colour Combination (and the Story of One Man Who’s Edited 1/3 of Wikipedia Articles)

This is a pretty interesting Wikipedia article. Also, the news has picked up on the story of one guy who’s apparently edited 1/3 of Wikipedia’s millions of articles and created 35,000 original articles.

¶ Posted 29 January 2019 § Canada § Internet § Jobs § List § Technology § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, education, history, unitedstates

.@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 § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, music, unitedstates

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 § Politics § 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 § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, unitedstates

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 […]