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Category Archives: Wisdom

“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 […]

Carnival Scam Science

I wish I’d watched this video before we took the kids to a local carnival a couple weeks ago. I’ve always known the games were rigged towards the operator and had a general sense of how they are – mostly by playing with the size and shape of the game pieces – smaller rims, longer […]

¶ Posted 26 June 2018 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, science

George Carlin on Cynicism

¶ Posted 19 June 2018 § Meme § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

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 § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, language, travel, unitedstates

Doug Ford or Donald Ford?

Godspeed Ontario!

¶ Posted 06 June 2018 § Humour § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, ontario

“That’s why everyone who works retail doesn’t tell you to go fuck yourself.”

(h/t DC on FB)

¶ Posted 31 May 2018 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, freedomtoreadweek, language

Do Your Backups!

I’ve been battling against technology recently – last weekend, my otherwise reliable ~2011-era Macbook Pro started doing a boot loop over and over. I’d seen this happen before about a month ago but after a couple loops, it seemed to come back to life so instead of taking it into the shop for a check-up, […]

¶ Posted 23 May 2018 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Myth America

(h/t to JB on FB)

¶ Posted 09 May 2018 § Infographic § News § Politics § United States ‡ 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 § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language, unitedstates

Opinion Piece: “On Getting Punched In The Face While Working At The Library”

This opinion piece was written by a librarian in Ohio (who happens to be a FB friend though I’ve never met him in person) but it resonated with me – about some of the “social worker”-type situations library staff deal with regularly (including aggressive patrons – knock on wood, the worst I’ve got was threats and […]