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Category Archives: United States

Two Big Battles I’m Watching Tonight…

Man, I hope the two Democrats win the Georgia run-off elections and the Democrats take control of the Senate.  After the long delay to confirm Biden as President-elect, this would be the cherry-on-top of delayed results! Less impactful but no less entertaining, I’m also hoping Team Canada can once again win Gold at the World […]

Posted 05 January 2021 § Canada § News § Politics § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

RIP Luke Letlow (Maybe?)

It’s an interesting question about how we should feel when someone makes bad, ill-informed choices that lead directly to their death. *Of course* every death is sad.  *But maybe* it’s not quite as sad when someone willingly makes a conscious choice to avoid even the most basic Covid precautions and then ends up dying of […]

Posted 29 December 2020 § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Google’s 2020 Year in Search (And A Couple Other Year-in-Review Compilations Too)

And since it was such a memorable year, I’ll add a couple other “year in review” compilations…    

Posted 29 December 2020 § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

V-Day!

After a very strange, long, historic year, it feels pretty monumental that the UK is the first country rolling out their Covid vaccine starting today (okay, Russia actually started a few days ago but I think the UK is getting all the attention since that’s the Pfizer one most of the world will be using) […]

Posted 08 December 2020 § Canada § News § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Trump’s Venn Diagram

Posted 18 November 2020 § Humour § Meme § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Multiple Thoughts on Multiple Elections #skpoli #yqr #yxe

In order… SASK PROVINCIAL ELECTION (OCT 26) 1.  In my initial post-mortem, I chalked up at least one big factor in the NDP’s failure to do well up to people wanting the status quo during a pandemic.  (This was bolstered by the BC NDP actually growing their majority a few days earlier.)  But as detailed […]

Posted 15 November 2020 § Canada § List § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Constantly Wrong: The Case Against Conspiracy Theories

Posted 13 November 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “Oh beautiful, for spacious skies/For amber waves of grain/For purple mountain majesties/Above the fruited plain”

“America The Beautiful” – Ray Charles

Posted 09 November 2020 § News § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – “Day Five of Election Night” Dance Party

It was a bit delayed while the counts come in slowly over the past few days. But Tuesday night’s light show has reappeared in our living room as backdrop for a very enthusiastic dance party now that Joe Biden has been annouced as President-Elect of the United States.

Posted 07 November 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Bernie Called It

Pretty much word-for-word… https://twitter.com/onikasgivenchy/status/1323857811734933504 (via)

Posted 04 November 2020 § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,