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Forget 1984: These Five Dystopias Better Reflect Trump’s USA

With the almost unbelievable events in the US since Trump was elected, George Orwell’s classic novel, originally released in 1949, which details a dystopian future society where the government spies on, controls and lies to its citizens, has hit the top of the Amazon bestseller list. But there are other books that even better capture the dread and doom […]

86 Books Barack Obama Recommended During His Presidency

Another thing I’m going to miss about Obama is that, unlike Cheeto Jesus, Obama was actually a reader. For the record… 1. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer 2. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 3. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing 4. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston 5. Brown Girl Dreaming, […]

¶ Posted 25 January 2017 § List § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, education, language

So Here We Are: Donald Trump Is Officially The President

Colbert also revived his long-lost alter-ego as “Stephen Colbert, Conservative Pundit” for a touching farewell tribute to Obama…

¶ Posted 22 January 2017 § Humour § News § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history

Music Monday – “Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find/I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind”

Meryl Streep gave a great speech while accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes last night criticizing Donald Trump without once mentioning him by name. He reacted like a big crybaby as usual. (Hint: There’s no way on earth that the most decorated actress of all-time is “over-rated” even though that’s the go-to […]

¶ Posted 09 January 2017 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language, movies

Radio Garden: Listen To The World

This should probably be a Friday Fun Link but it’s so cool, I wanted to share it right away. More than a streaming service, Radio Garden allows you to easily move from radio station to radio station around the world in a very intuitive, easy-to-use fashion (although Chrome has WebGL disabled by default so you’ll either […]

¶ Posted 20 December 2016 § Canada § Internet § PopCulture § Technology § Travel § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, language, music, travel

Music Monday – “You’ll be doin’ all right, with your Christmas of white/But I’ll have a blue, blue blue blue Christmas”

This is a fitting song for my last Melancholy Christmas Music Monday post this month – both for the sad lyrics but also how its being performed in front of and indirectly evoking Barack Obama (and heck, if you squint, even the “Christmas of white” could be a reference to Trump’s support among white working […]

¶ Posted 19 December 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, holiday

Friday Fun Link – Map of the World’s Rudest Place Names Is A Thing of Beauty

Inordinately proud I’ve been to some of these places.

¶ Posted 09 December 2016 § Canada § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § Randomness § Travel § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: alberta, history, language, ontario

Why Trump Will Smash Hillary (May 2016 video)

I had this bookmarked a long time ago but never got around to watching it. But it’s very prescient knowing what we know now…

¶ Posted 22 November 2016 § News § Politics § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history

Music Monday – “From the Monogaleh valley/To the Mesabi iron range/To the coal mines of Appalachia/The story’s always the same/Seven-hundred tons of metal a day/Now sir you tell me the world’s changed/Once I made you rich enough/Rich enough to forget my name”

Still recovering from the US Election results, I ended up listening to Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad” album this morning which seemed like a good fit with what happened in the Rust Belt last week (tellingly, in the New York Times story in that last link, the man who inspired the Springsteen song I’m posting […]

¶ Posted 14 November 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, history, language, music

Two Competing Views of the US Election Result

“I Voted For the Middle Finger, The Wrecking Ball” – The Atlantic I am tired of the machine rolling over us—all of us. The Clinton machine, the Republican machine, the big media, investment banking, hedge fund carrying interest, corporatist, lobbying, influence peddling, getting elected and immediately begin fundraising for the next election machine—they can all […]