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Category Archives: United States

Cost of A Broken Wrist? USA = ~$10,000, Canada = $12

Doing a lot of reading about various aspects of the scaphoid bone I broke in my wrist and always shocked to see American sites talking about the cost of healthcare (~$6000 – $10,000 for the x-rays, hospital stay and surgery I had) or how they would forego treatment completely due to a lack of health […]

¶ Posted 01 August 2018 § Politics § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: unitedstates

Retro Friday Fun Link – Truth Is Better (Scarier?) Than Fiction (aka If This Was a Spy Novel, It’d Be Too Unbelievable)

This story of the FBI tracking deep cover Russian spies is pretty amazing…

¶ Posted 13 July 2018 § FridayFunLink § News § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, unitedstates

“Dearest Father…” #SecondCivilWarLetters Wins Twitter on American Independence Day

My Love,Dusk. We're in position overlooking MAGA camp. I see their sentries' red hats in the dim light of their tiki torches and it steels my nerves. At midnight, we strike. May our battlecry, "Happy Holidays," strike fear. Send Kale. – Matthew#secondcivilwarletters — D-Fo (@ThisIsDFo) July 4, 2018 It’s quite clear that the increased […]

¶ Posted 04 July 2018 § Humour § Internet § Meme § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, language, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”

“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have? They’re all just words on paper. They’re arbitrary. And they can be changed completely […]

¶ Posted 18 June 2018 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, language, travel, unitedstates

Roseanne’s Plan To Bump Cosby (1989 vs. 2018 Versions)

It’s 1989 all over again with Roseanne Barr stealing headlines from Bill Cosby…

¶ Posted 30 May 2018 § Humour § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

Myth America

(h/t to JB on FB)

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

Is “A Horse Is Loose In A Hospital” The Best Donald Trump Analogy So Far?

Fast forward to near the end of this clip for the joke…

¶ Posted 08 May 2018 § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Yeah, this is America/Guns in my area/I got the strap/I gotta carry ’em”

“This Is America” – Childish Gambino Some of the Things You May Have Missed MetaFilter weighs in Annotated lyrics This Is America: Donald Glover’s Video Is A Gripping Read

¶ Posted 07 May 2018 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, language, music, unitedstates

Michelle Wolf at White House Correspondent’s Dinner (and Some Thoughts on Transgressive Comedy)

A while back on AskReddit, there was a question about “What will be the “smoking” of the next generation which our kids judge us harshly for?” At the time, I thought that it would be “eating meat” that would be seen by future generations as something that, although enjoyable, had a big negative impact on […]