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Minot Public Library Adds Another Incentive to Read – Cash!

Minot Public Library is partnering with Bank of North Dakota’s College SAVE program to provide one more incentive to participants in its summer reading program: money. College SAVE is the state’s 529 plan to help residents save for college. Every young reader who signs up for the Minot Public Library’s Summer Reading Program will have […]

¶ Posted 29 May 2019 § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Honu in Kauai (January 2012)

We were invited to a 50th Anniversary of my Hawaiian aunt and uncle (I know, right?) but unfortunately, Hawaiians don’t think of things like “winter” so they scheduled the anniversary for June 2019 instead of January 2019. So that’s one of the main reasons we won’t be attending though we’ll be there in spirit. That […]

¶ Posted 09 May 2019 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, travel, unitedstates

Democratic Presidential Candidate, Andrew Wang, on Universal Basic Income

The guy seems like a longshot but so did Donald Trump four years ago!

¶ Posted 19 March 2019 § Jobs § News § Politics § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, philosophy, science, unitedstates

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 […]