The best part of this issue, if there can be a good part, where a bunch of high school boys surrounded Nathan Phillips to get
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A Puff of Absurdity: 10 Year Challenge
I posted this challenge on social media recently. This is what we do to be sociable: play online games and forward memes. Discussing the world
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Skunk In The Stinky FP
The FP published a ridiculous op-ed by Brad Wall. business.financialpost .com/opinion/ brad-wall-canada-could-impact-emissions-were-ottawa-not-so-obsessed-with-carbon-taxes “So, in Paris we were — without intention — a few prairie skunks
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: On the road to Oz, the Lion starts strong.
Dorothy has already clicked her heels and the Cowardly Lion has been the first to put a paw on the Yellow Brick Road. It is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – George Kennan – On Totalitarianism
“The fact of the matter is that there is a little bit of the totalitarian buried somewhere, way down deep, in each and every one
Continue readingThings Are Good: California Launches Improved Reverse Income Tax Scheme
California’s welfare system (EITC) includes subsidies sent annually for people living without income and that’s about to change. Under new rules the money given to
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Why Protest?
This will be the shortest post ever! Here’s my argument delineated in premises and a conclusion (P=premise, SC=sub-conclusion, C=conclusion): P1. Human beings are wired for
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Continuums: ASD, OCD, ADHD, Alzheimers, and Allergies
Since the Aspergers designation was excluded from the DSM V, many people were, and are, outraged that all cases fall under the Autism Spectrum Disorder
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Fridays for Future
I went to the first #fridaysforfuture protest in our area with my youngest, yesterday, outside my MP’s office. The idea is the brainchild of Greta
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Before Becoming Too Smugly Secular – Sheldon S. Wolin – Democracy Incorporated.
As an atheist it is sometime easy to become hyper focused on what those people over there are doing wrong and how they need to
Continue readingScripturient: Musings on leadership
What makes a good leader? Or a bad one, for that matter? That’s a long-standing debate that reaches back into history.* Of late I’ve been
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Trudeau Dodges and Weaves in Regina
Glad to join PM @JustinTrudeau at a Town Hall meeting with over a thousand participants at the @UofRegina tonight.// Je suis heureux de me joindre
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Taxing the Rich
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshest Democrat to hit the White House, is making headlines for mimicking the dance sequence from The Breakfast Club back in college,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: This Just In: Albertans Still Starry Eyed over Unabashed Corporatism
“A poll that surveyed nearly 1,000 Albertans earlier this month found the United Conservative Party have a large lead over the NDP and would win
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Capitalism’s Limitations
Every year, when we get to the part of my philosophy course where we read some Marx & Engels, and I ask for criticisms of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Challenge of the Left – Looking Good vs. Being Effective
Written by Dr. Caroline Norma her piece is about running up against the male centric Left in Australia. Inside her essay though are a couple
Continue readingScripturient: America’s time machine
We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin… our homes are covered with mortgages, labor
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: The Arc of History – Podcast
All of us can wield a power that those who would divide us will never know: an ability to make common cause out of our
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Advisory: GOPAC Thanks our Outgoing CEO
Serving as CEO of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption was one of the great honours of my life, and I am immensely proud
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: France – The Blue Collar Revolt – Gilets Jaunes
Paul Street writing at Counterpunch: “Yellow vest-wearers demand real democracy – popular self-rule. They have called for a popular referendum whereby 700,000 citizen signatories would
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