Tag: history

Monica Lewinsky: The Price of Shame

This TED talk has been making the rounds since being posted a week ago and is approaching one million views on YouTube. It’s very interesting for Lewinsky’s observations

What Two Famous People Were Alive At The Same Time That Would Surprise People

Charlie Chaplin and 50 Cent. Neil Armstrong was 17 when Orville Wright died. Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were the same age. More…

#JeSuisCharlie (And Some Tangents About Language, The Nature of Offense and the Unintended Consequences of Trigger Warnings)

Trigger Warning: This essay contains ideas you might not agree with. You’ve probably heard about the terrorist criminal attack today in Paris that targeted journalists and cartoonists with

Music Monday – Honoring Our Parents: The Legacy of Residential Schools

There’s a popular story making the rounds on social media to help people in positions of privilege understand exactly what the concept means and what it affords them.

The True Meaning of Christmas That Everyone Forgets

Someone on my Facebook posted a rather profound article about how the arguments between “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Holidays” are misguided. The article points out the fact that

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Hammond Family (circa 1950s?)

  One of my cousins has received a number of old photos from her mother (my dad’s oldest sister). My cousin has posted a few of the photos

A White Paper for Scotland (Guest Blog Post)

So I haven’t paid too much attention to the Scottish Independence referendum (I think my first real glimmer of awareness is when Ryan Meili picked “Better Together” as

The Falling Man: The Most Famous Image Most People Haven’t Seen

Originally published in 2011, an article about an infamous photo of a man in mid-flight after jumping from the World Trade Centre also raises some interesting points n

Holiday Weekend Catch-Up

I took a couple days off on Monday and Tuesday to have an extended long weekend to go camping with Shea’s and my folks and to attend Shea’s

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