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Music Monday – “We didn’t come here on the Mayflower/We came on a ship in a blood red moon/We come in the age’s most uncertain hour/And sing an American tune”

I recently replied to a question on Twitter asking “Who is the most poetic lyricist in music?” by saying I wasn’t sure but Paul Simon is the only one I studied in high school poetry class so… On that note, this is a powerful new take on one of his classics, where he doesn’t sing […]

Posted 14 November 2022 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Secular Sunday – The Positions Modern Religious Republicans Hold Are, Quite Literally, 100% Incorrect

  Think about it. They look at the world through the lens of a religion that is clearly a fantasy. Virtually all their decisions are made looking through that lens. Consequently, virtually all of their beliefs, opinions and decisions are objectively wrong. They reject science in favor of their “faith”, so vaccines are from the […]

Posted 13 November 2022 § News § Politics § SecularSunday § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Paid Twitter Verified Accounts Running Amok

"I'm gonna be blunt here: Elon Musk is running Twitter into the ground…and it's the best Twitter's ever been." @trevornoah pic.twitter.com/COQ3V0q06b — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 11, 2022 After paying the rather insane sum of $44 billion for Twitter, Elon Musk had to make his money back somehow. Unfortunately, doing away with the site’s […]

Posted 11 November 2022 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § News § Politics § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean/I love the country but I can’t stand the scene/And I’m neither left or right/I’m just staying home tonight/Getting lost in that hopeless little screen”

“Democracy” – Leonard Cohen

Posted 07 November 2022 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Secular Sunday – When You Learn About Residential Schools…

Posted 23 October 2022 § Meme § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Secular Sunday – None of This Really Matters, None of It’s For Us, and We Don’t Know Why

A bit of a different take on my usual Secular Sunday posts poking fun at religion…a very serious, deep reply to a Reddit question about “What are some dark realities people are in denial about?”

Posted 16 October 2022 § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Some Recent Covid Tweets

One of the biggest stumbling blocks to overcoming Covid is people who act like Covid is already over… When COVID started I thought the best thing to do was to learn all I could about what it was and how to avoid it. I thought that the people I cared about would want this information […]

Posted 12 October 2022 § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Everybody had a hard year/Everybody had a good time/Everybody had a wet dream/Everybody saw the sunshine”

“I’ve Got A Feeling” – Paul McCartney & John Lennon

Posted 10 October 2022 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Regina Public Library Central Library

Posted 01 October 2022 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

DART Impact Video

Follow up to a post from last week… Same video as before of ATLAS observing the DART impact, but tracked sidereally (with the stars). Each frame is about 40 seconds, and the entire sequence is about two hours. pic.twitter.com/p7Sgvfu2CK — ATLAS Project (@fallingstarIfA) September 27, 2022  

Posted 27 September 2022 § News § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: