Head Tale

Tag Archives: economics

A Few Radical Changes That Could Fix The US Political System?

When you think it can’t get any crazier in US politics, it gets crazier. Last week, it was the spectacle of the testimony by Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault ~30 years ago when they were teenagers, Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford. Basically, you’ve got a situation where Republicans, shocked […]

¶ Posted 02 October 2018 § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Well, the hives are gone/I’ve lost my bees/The chickens are sleeping/In the willow trees/Cow’s in water up past her knees/Three feet high and rising”

Frightening: “We’re Moving to Higher Ground” – America’s Era of Climate-Inspired Mass Migration is Here “Five Feet High and Rising” – Johnny Cash

¶ Posted 24 September 2018 § News § Politics § Sad § Travel § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, history, science, weather

The History of the World Trade Center (Documentary)

¶ Posted 11 September 2018 § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, history, science, television, unitedstates

Inside A Google Data Center

¶ Posted 28 August 2018 § Internet § Jobs § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, science

The Worst Day of Donald Trump’s Presidency?

Trump’s personal lawyer admits to knowingly committing illegal finance campaign finance violations at Trump’s direction while Trump’s former campaign chair is found guilty of multiple counts of bank and tax fraud as well. The BEST people!

¶ Posted 21 August 2018 § Jobs § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, unitedstates

Retro Friday Fun Link – Truth Is Better (Scarier?) Than Fiction (aka If This Was a Spy Novel, It’d Be Too Unbelievable)

This story of the FBI tracking deep cover Russian spies is pretty amazing…

¶ Posted 13 July 2018 § FridayFunLink § News § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, history, unitedstates

“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 […]

¶ Posted 04 July 2018 § Humour § Internet § Meme § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, history, language, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Reefer Madness Reaches Canada

From Colbert (with bonus mention of Saskatchewan!) Late night comedians are having a lot of fun with my home province actually (ffwd to 3:00 minute mark)…

¶ Posted 29 June 2018 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, language, music, saskatchewan

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 § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Rider Game at Taylor Field (July 2012)

Thinking of our tour of the new Mosaic Stadium yesterday, here’s a pic from a game we went to a few years ago in the old Taylor Field (not sure how we got such great seats – think we bought them last minute off Kijiji?)