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Category Archives: Wisdom

The Beautiful Delay: Why Soccer Still Grips The Smartphone-Trained Brain

This essay showed up on my FB timeline from some guy called John Gregory I thought it was pretty insightful so am re-posting… After watching Portugal register just one shot on goal during the Portugal-DR Congo World Cup match the other day, I scratched my head over how soccer can be the world’s most popular […]

¶ Posted 23 June 2026 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Pace § PopCulture § Sasha § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, economics, education, television

Secular Sunday – Be Careful Who You Hate

¶ Posted 14 June 2026 § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

Secular Sunday – Who Exactly Is Teaching Kids About “Socialism”?

A bit of a different take on secularism. But since it’s usually heavily religious conservative people yelling “Socialism!” at anything they don’t like, I’ll allow it…

¶ Posted 24 May 2026 § Jobs § News § Politics § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, philosophy

The Butterfly Effect of Trump’s Misadventure in Iran

Just incredible background and context to the butterfly effect of Trump’s egomaniacal disaster in Iran. https://t.co/0WNTcFvv5f — Dean Blundell?? (@ItsDeanBlundell) March 26, 2026

¶ Posted 31 March 2026 § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

Friday Fun Link – A $2.5 Billion Robot, Designed To Function on Mars For Two Years, Is Still Working 13 Years Later!

A $2.5 billion robot has been alone on another planet for 13 years and is still doing science. The scale of that sentence gets worse the longer you think about it. Curiosity landed in August 2012. Obama was president. Instagram had 80 million users. The iPhone 5 hadn’t shipped… https://t.co/AzXQenKDnH — Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) March […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2026 § FridayFunLink § Internet § MemoryLane § News § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, education, science

Secular Sunday – Are You In The Game or Playing The Game?

Easily one of my favourite posters on TikTok. This theory has a bit of the Red Pill/Blue Pill stuff that’s from the Matrix but in a less incel/nihlistic way of looking at things – more like “You know this is all not real. It has no meaning. So just enjoying playing the game.” @nononsensespirituality #nononsensespirituality […]

¶ Posted 22 March 2026 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, philosophy

Friday Fun Link – “Oh Poop!” A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale

With some help from ChatGPT, I/we wrote the following fairy tale… (Any resemblence to people, places or things living or on life support, is purely coincidental.) Oh Poop!: A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale In a broad kingdom, flat as a table and swept by endless winds, there stood an aging castle at the heart of […]

¶ Posted 20 March 2026 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education, health, history, saskatchewan

Secular Sunday – New Extremely Detailed Photo of the Milky Way’s Central Zone

Yay science! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-26/alma-telescope-milky-way-photo/106380644

¶ Posted 15 March 2026 § SecularSunday § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, science

Friday Fun Link – 73 Mitch Hedberg One-Liners

73 Mitch Hedberg One Liners! pic.twitter.com/iSxWln9V3j — Hambone's Word. ?? ?? ?? (@Keithhambone) March 14, 2026

¶ Posted 13 March 2026 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Civic Engagement (February 2004, June 2009, Sept 2025)

I feel so fortunate to have grown up with parents who instilled a love of reading, news, politics and community engagement into me from a young age. Whether it was my dad reading the Leader Post from front-to-back every evening or my mom’s involvement on the Board of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, I have […]