One of the strangest things about modern tech is that you can easily hear what a dead murderer thought of himself and others. There are hours of video of this Rudy guy boasting about his video game prowess while calling women “pap smear”. Cops were warned about his violent harrassment
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Children Thrown Away Like Masks
The coronavirus is airborne. Most of our plans are based on it spreading by droplets and unclean hands. #KeepYourChildHome and they'll thank you in later years, even if 2020 and some of 2021 is more difficult. Easier to rebuild social connections than a damaged heart. — Saskboy from #SocialDistancing (@saskboy)
Continue readingScripturient: The Cancer Diaries Part 1
I should have started this a while ago. Perhaps when I received the first news something as wrong. But it took a while to really sink in. And then it was upon me. Although this is personal, I wanted to share it, in the hope others might find it useful.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: ReOpen Rant
You’ve probably got friends on that gosh awful Facebook website who’re clamouring to go back to normal. They want the certainty of a steady paycheque, the regular services, and plentiful entertainment options that Regina offers in a typical year. (You know how the easily bored are always saying there’s so
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Trump Keeps It Clean
We all know what a stable genius the President is, you really have to admire him coming up with quality solutions on the fly during a press conference. Medical doctors are going to try his ideas as soon as they find a volunteer and an unethical doctor to administer them.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Social Psychology & Meditation On Death
Montaigne said of fear, “There is no emotion which more readily ravishes our judgement.” That would seem to be the best explanation of our current mass social psychology: the great majority, including most of the otherwise thoughtful, intelligent, and emminently sane, are temporarily incapable of rational thought, due to panic
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Meditations For Difficult Times
What do you do when the world has gone insane? Well, you stay calm, and keep working for justice, peace, democracy, ecological balance, and freedom. You also have to stay well. That does not mean unthinkingly obeying irrational fascist orders. It does mean managing stress, eating well, getting exercise,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague 2020: Life On The Inside
The WHO’s warnings to close schools at the end of February were accurate. Unsurprising to me, the climate crisis Deniers are out in full force trying to deny scientific pandemic response since their beloved oil markets have tanked completely. It’s not enough for them to kill us with air pollution
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Expectation
How we see our lives and how we expect things to go for us is life or death right now, sanity or madness. This has been an emotionally exhausting week! Not knowing is difficult, and there’s so much up in the air right now. It reminds me of when I was
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #CloseTheSchools, Save Lives
If you're a city leader with influence in a business or government, read this, and in the morning do what you can to limit places people can spread respiratory illnesses. Saskatchewan is out of time in a matter of days, not weeks.https://t.co/YAiqrOfncl@astevensward3 — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) March 12, 2020 There’s
Continue readingScripturient: Of dictionaries, memories, and friends
When a copy of this selection from Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary arrived last week, I was delighted, and immediately reminded of my late, and well-loved friend, Bill. He would have appreciated the book, chuckled over Johnson’s witty definitions, delighted in the words at play. We would have sat around the
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Happy New Year – We Are All Going to Die
Yes, we are all going to die and that’s it, the end. Except for the Christians, of course, they get to go to an afterlife of either heaven or hell. There seem to be two schools of thought on who goes where. One seems to believe good people go to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ACC Longtime Host Bob Kingsley Passes Away
For a lot of years I listened to the American Country Countdown with Bob Kingsley. In more recent years he’s had another countdown show, while Kix Brooks hosted American Country Countdown. Kingsley passed away on Thursday at the age of 80. It’s going to be weird listening to country radio
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Evil Men Destroying Our World Have Names
“What is happening here is a crime” – Brazillian fascist President accusing environmentalists of what he’s done. “I am not looking for who is responsible.” https://t.co/SoBmT90cDf — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) August 23, 2019 Remember to think well of the dead, even if they wished you and yours death with every
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Can We, Should We, Will We Live Forever Online
When typing for this blog I have often wished I could just think my thoughts at the computer and have them type out on the screen. This, no doubt, has much to do with the fact I am a one finger hunt and peck typist (having been streamed into drafting
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: To the Rich Go the SpOILs
Oil and Gas don’t clean up their messes, we the Canadian citizen do. https://t.co/xaSJBNciJz — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) May 7, 2019 == Unrelated, the Bare Naked Ladies song $1000000 mentions John Merrick. “I’d buy you John Merrick’s remains” Just read this story today about John Merrick. How strange I was
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Gone John Himpe
John Himpe was a radio and blogging wizard. Now he’s gone, at a young 38 years of age. Here’s his account of first getting on the Internet: Because there were only so many hours of Internet for the year, I was always mindful of the clock. Many days, spending an entire
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: I Thought I Would Be OK, But I’m Not
My Mom passed away on August 16th at the age of 96. Ninety-six is a big number and a lot of years to live. When Mom reminisced about skiing down her street in Montreal as a child, I observed that her memory was 87 years old. Of course I had
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: The Last Two Weeks. Where To Begin?
I was up at our cottage with my husband on the morning of August 16th when the phone rang. It was my sister. “Mom died!” She was crying and then I was too. I thought it was a mistake. Or a joke. My mother is (was) 96, but she wasn’t
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Miami Bridge Collapses
Why did the ABC bridge have its pivot supports removed before the overhead support cables visible in the finished design were installed? Days ago: Community gathers to watch 950-ton bridge move across Southwest 8th Street Leonor Flores ’98 is a project executive and one of 63 FIU alumni who work
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