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A Single Reddit Screen Cap Shows Why Our World Is So Messed Up

Posted 29 January 2009 § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

A Couple Interesting Inaugural Address Links

The Atlantic Monthly takes a look at the techniques and deeper meaning of Barack Obama's Inaugural Address.The Toronto Star presents word clouds of previous Inaugural Addresses including Obama's.  (Thanks to Sandra M. for this link.) Oh, and my former classmate, Ian L., got a shout-out on the highly-trafficked (and one of the first) Internet blog, […]

Posted 23 January 2009 § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

President Barack Hussein Obama

MetaFilter.

Posted 21 January 2009 § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

Maybe Saskatchewan's (Dairy Cows Are) On To Something After All

Saskatchewan is the only province in Canada that doesn't observe daylight saving time and the commonly accepted wisdom here is that the reason for this decision has to do with the fact that the time swap would be hugely disruptive to dairy cows – which apparently don't exist elsewhere in Canada.   (Oh, and in […]

Posted 22 November 2008 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Obama Front Pages From Around The World – What History Looks Like

He won.  And history looks like this…

Posted 05 November 2008 § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

Liveblogging The Election

Well, CNN has inspired me to start a live blog which I'll update as the night goes on…feel free to hit REFRESH if you want to hear my deep thoughts as the night progresses…6:17pmCNN has unveiled HOLOGRAMS into their coverage.  Jessica Yellin has just appeared in the studio like some weird Princess Leia!  (Oh God, […]

Posted 05 November 2008 § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

Today's The Big Day!

Yep, Pace had his first visit to his day care in Regina today – monumental!Just kidding.  Obviously, the only story today is that, after months and months of electioneering, there will be a new US President.  And at the risk of jinxing it, the most respected polling aggregator is predicting a 99% chance of an […]

Posted 04 November 2008 § Main Page § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

"Barry's Infomercial"

In addition to going to my usual sources to read responses to the Barack Obama half-hour, less than a week to go “infomercial”, I went to a fairly popular right-wing blog called Little Green Footballs to see what kind of response the speech got there.  Just like my conversation with the library technician from the […]

Posted 30 October 2008 § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

A Trio of Obama Stories

When No One's Watching“Can I Be Your Date?”  Please!Not That It Matters But…(Okay, one more… “A History Teacher Sees The Future“)

Posted 22 October 2008 § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

Five Ways Barack Obama Can Ensure That He Wins The US Presidential Election

After the recent meltdown in the US economy, Barack Obama has opened a wider lead over John McCain than at any point in the campaign and looks all but sure to win on November 4.  Still, you can't count out the Republicans and who knows what may happen over the final few weeks of the […]

Posted 14 October 2008 § List § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °