Tag: economics

The Guardian Posts An Overview of the Playing Styles of All 48 World Cup Teams and Capsule Profiles of All 1248 World Cup Players

An incredible bit of sports journalism by The Guardian here. A short summary of the playing style of all 48 World Cup nations and a short profile of

Original Star Wars Movie Being Re-Released in Theatres For Its 50th Anniversary

Easily the movie I’ve watched the most times in my life. In the olden days when you would rent a VCR and get four movies to watch over

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…

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Should I Tip In USD or Local Currency While In Mexico?

I’ve never done this before but my original post from March 2019 is displaying weirdly and I’m too lazy to dig into my blog’s plug-ins and undercarriage to

Secular Sunday – “You Die At The End of This…[Don’t Take] It Seriously Like There Is Any Way To Win In All This”

Seems cynical on first glimpse but it’s true – how many people seem to think they are going to “win” life by getting more money or traveling more

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

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

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!:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Film Tax Credit Cuts Protest (May 2012)

There have been a lot of mistakes, a lot of missteps and a lot of deficit budgets. But cutting the Sask Film Tax Credit is arguably the single

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