Tag Archives: history

Big Winners of 2018 Midterm Elections

Sure, this clip is from Fox News but with such a beautiful grammar error, how can I not post it? 😉

US Midterms 2016 – Random Thoughts From Tonight

I didn’t live blog tonight but roughly, here’s how my night went… I’ve been waiting two years for this night – yay! I realise I can’t read 10 open tabs in my browser simultaneously – boo! One of the first polls to close, Kentucky District 6 is really tight – if the Dem wins, that […]

The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

As we head towards a massively important election on Tuesday, I’ve been thinking about the differences between liberals and conservatives. Here’s a couple videos on the differences and why:  

Friday Fun Link – New $245 Million Calgary Central Library Opens

As a former Calgarian who often worked closely with the city’s librarians via my role at the Writers Guild of Alberta (a highlight of my time in Calgary was being invited by one librarian to be her “community guest” at the opening of a new suburban branch that features a speech by well-known author and […]

The Five Year Old’s Guide to the Galaxy

Reddit has a sub-Reddit called /r/ExplainLikeImFive where the goal is to convey complex ideas in a way that even a child (or a typical Redditor?) can understand. Someone compiled some of the best explanations the site has provided in a single post.

Saturday Snap – A Versatile Sign @officialRPL Regent Place Branch #yqr #ReadAboutWeed #GuideToGanja #MaryJaneMonographs #GetBuzzedonBooks

Usually, the “Homegrown” sign at my library helps identify a display of Saskatchewan books or perhaps a display of books about gardening or agriculture or something along those lines. But with the legalization of marijuana this week, we found another way to use this sign… 🙂

Friday Fun Link – Dollar Street and GapMinder’s Four Income Levels

Dollar Street, from the GapMinder Foundation, uses a well-designed interface to help counter misconceptions about different income levels in the world. Their main point is that people don’t uniformly live in “poor” or “rich” countries like most of us tend to think but that people actually share similar lifestyles, items that they own, and things they […]

We Live In the Craziest Timeline

Wow.  

Music Monday – “It’s not such a scary time for boys/They’ve always had the upper hand, they’ve always had a choice/It’s time for women to rise up, use our collective voice/The day to vote is Nov 6th so let’s go make some noise”

As I type this, Democrats have a 75% chance of taking the House of Representatives and a 20% chance of taking the Senate in the US midterm elections which happen in just under a month. In the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh decision, here’s hoping that women (and men who recognize the injustice that was done […]

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