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The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

As we head towards a massively important election on Tuesday, I’ve been thinking about the differences between liberals and conservatives. Here’s a couple videos on the differences and why:

¶ Posted 04 November 2018 § News § Politics § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, unitedstates

Music Monday – “It’s a 24 foot long vessel/Measures 8 feet wide/It’s a 53 year-old camper/It’s made to pull behind.” (also “I can guarantee you, we were the quietest people in the Circleville Public Library” if you click through to the live version!) :-)

I’ve got a new musical obsession after really getting into Kentucky’s own Tyler Childers this past weekend… He’s got a lot of amazing songs but the one I’m featuring for “Music Monday” today, while still unreleased, caught my ear when I found it on YouTube. See if you can guess why? (He’s also got a live […]

¶ Posted 29 October 2018 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – Dollar Street and GapMinder’s Four Income Levels

Dollar Street, from the GapMinder Foundation, uses a well-designed interface to help counter misconceptions about different income levels in the world. Their main point is that people don’t uniformly live in “poor” or “rich” countries like most of us tend to think but that people actually share similar lifestyles, items that they own, and things they […]

¶ Posted 19 October 2018 § Canada § Family § Infographic § Jobs § News § Travel § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, food, history, travel

Brazilian Inmates Can Read Books To Shorten Their Sentences (Not So Much in The US)

This is a pretty cool, innovative program with a lot of potential to pay ongoing dividends. And of course, the US is doing the opposite with prisons in Pennsylvania where inmates are no longer being allowed any form of print book sent by family members or charities but they can buy overpriced, overly restricted ebooks, […]

¶ Posted 16 October 2018 § Censorship § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, freedomtoreadweek, unitedstates

Optimism and Pessimism Around Climate Change

Optimism: The Sask NDP released a very innovative climate change policy as part of their annual convention which would see Crown Corps like SaskPower & SaskEnergy helping individuals, organizations and corporations underwrite a move to a green economy which is the best way forward to get off our current “track” and switch to another that could lead […]

¶ Posted 14 October 2018 § Family § News § Pace § Politics § PopCulture § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – The World’s First Beer Hotel – With In-Room Taps and Shower Mini-Bars – Is Finally Open.

This looks like a fun place to stay!

¶ Posted 12 October 2018 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, travel

We Live In the Craziest Timeline

Wow.

¶ Posted 10 October 2018 § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, television, unitedstates

The Importance of the US Midterm Elections

Good overview of the history and importance of the US’s midterm elections, coming to a state near you in one month!

¶ Posted 09 October 2018 § News § Politics § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, unitedstates

Music Monday – “It’s not such a scary time for boys/They’ve always had the upper hand, they’ve always had a choice/It’s time for women to rise up, use our collective voice/The day to vote is Nov 6th so let’s go make some noise”

As I type this, Democrats have a 75% chance of taking the House of Representatives and a 20% chance of taking the Senate in the US midterm elections which happen in just under a month. In the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh decision, here’s hoping that women (and men who recognize the injustice that was done […]