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Music Monday – “You’ll be doin’ all right, with your Christmas of white/But I’ll have a blue, blue blue blue Christmas”

This is a fitting song for my last Melancholy Christmas Music Monday post this month – both for the sad lyrics but also how its being performed in front of and indirectly evoking Barack Obama (and heck, if you squint, even the “Christmas of white” could be a reference to Trump’s support among white working […]

¶ Posted 19 December 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, holiday, unitedstates

10 Crucial Decisions in the 2016 Election That Reshaped America

No matter who wins elections, it’s often the behind-the-scenes articles and books that come out afterwards that are the most interesting in revealing the strategies, infighting and plain lucky breaks that make things go well or go, well, just about as bad as they went for Hillary Clinton a month ago. This is a very […]

¶ Posted 11 December 2016 § List § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Map of the World’s Rudest Place Names Is A Thing of Beauty

Inordinately proud I’ve been to some of these places.

¶ Posted 09 December 2016 § Canada § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § Randomness § Travel § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, history, language, ontario, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Is That A Big Orange or a Little Banana? (Jan 2012)

I’ve always loved how cute Pace looks in this photo from our family trip to Hawaii in 2012…

¶ Posted 24 November 2016 § Family § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, travel

Why Trump Will Smash Hillary (May 2016 video)

I had this bookmarked a long time ago but never got around to watching it. But it’s very prescient knowing what we know now…

¶ Posted 22 November 2016 § News § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Everybody knows the war is over/Everybody knows the good guys lost/Everybody knows the fight was fixed/The poor stay poor/The rich get rich.”

Leonard Cohen is dead and Donald Trump is President-elect. What a strange world we live in. “Everybody Knows” – Leonard Cohen

¶ Posted 21 November 2016 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Analyzing the Best and Worst Movie Accents

A Hollywood accent coach made a video then followed it up with a Reddit AMA…

¶ Posted 18 November 2016 § Canada § Jobs § PopCulture § Travel § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, movies, travel

Music Monday – “From the Monogaleh valley/To the Mesabi iron range/To the coal mines of Appalachia/The story’s always the same/Seven-hundred tons of metal a day/Now sir you tell me the world’s changed/Once I made you rich enough/Rich enough to forget my name”

Still recovering from the US Election results, I ended up listening to Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad” album this morning which seemed like a good fit with what happened in the Rust Belt last week (tellingly, in the New York Times story in that last link, the man who inspired the Springsteen song I’m posting […]

¶ Posted 14 November 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, language, music, unitedstates

Two Competing Views of the US Election Result

“I Voted For the Middle Finger, The Wrecking Ball” – The Atlantic I am tired of the machine rolling over us—all of us. The Clinton machine, the Republican machine, the big media, investment banking, hedge fund carrying interest, corporatist, lobbying, influence peddling, getting elected and immediately begin fundraising for the next election machine—they can all […]