April 2012
A stolen cellphones database?
An interesting proposal the Toronto Star was advocating for yesterday: Washington’s Federal Communications Commission and the four biggest wireless carriers in the U.S. announced this week that they are creating…
4485…Best Obit Ever
This is viral. Obituary or Memoriam PrintMichael “Flathead” Blanchard | Visit Guest Book Blanchard, Michael “Flathead”1944 ~ 2012A Celebration of the life of Michael “Flathead” Blanchard will be held on…
World’s Scary and Weird Creatures
Guess who is the weirdest of them all?
Wildrose: Noxious Weed
In the most obvious of ways, whatever Albertans decide is really none of my business, that’s the way our federation works. That said, the potential victory of the Wildrose will…
4484…Stephen Harper IS The Prime Minister
Head of the class. Big cheese. Grand pubba. The CBC has found out that Stephen Harper’s Labour Day boo to Manhattan, a three day cruise that included a Yankees game,…
Meet your Wildrose Candidate: Alan Hunsperger
Despite WRP leader Danielle Smith’s flip flopping on abortion: pro-choice? Pro-life? Will she defund abortion? No, wait, she expects you to defund abortion, Smith still wants you to believe that…
digital jigsaw puzzles, this quiet blog, and the current state of my brain
The writing part of my brain appears to be on vacation. It didn’t request time off; it doesn’t have to. It’s the boss. I have a pile of topics I’d…
Shooting the Messenger.
We have all by now seen the Harperregimes modus-opandi whereby they attack the organizations thatdisagree with their view of Canada not by presenting a reasoned anddocumented argument against such opinions…
4483…There Is Joy In Mudville
For the mighty Rangers have struck out. Fuggetabout the F-35 stuff; The Ottawa Sun is planning the parade. The Stanley Cup parade. WFDS
Socking It To The Cities
When Jane Jacobs moved from the United States to Canada, she looked around at Toronto and concluded that Canada’s largest city provided a model for wise urban development. “Here is…
Canadian Greenhouse Emissions Thrown Off By Bugs
Simon Donner has a couple of posts on Canadian Green House Gas emissions and the government’s spin on them. In the first, he notes that: GHG emissions grew by only…
On Israel and Apartheid
Message on a wall at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Last month, university students and activists around the world marked Israeli Apartheid Week, an annual series of lectures and…
The Lonely Old Man and his Music
When I was in university I used to volunteer once a week at a nursing home in Montreal’s East End. Sébastien used to play the piano and sing French songs,…
What Danielle Smith thinks and why Alison Redford’s Tories aren’t fear mongering about it
Typical Albertans react to fear mongering by … well, by anyone, really. We frighten extremely easily out here on the Great Plains. Typical Albertans may not be exactly as illustrated…
In today’s Sun: Danielle Smith is lying
People who don’t live in Alberta should be paying attention to the Alberta election. And not simply because it may be historic, signaling the end of a 40-year political dynasty.…
OMG this is the best band I’ve seen so far this year
SFH and Bjorn are going to lose their shit over this. Godlike genius. Sent by Mraz, via some anonymous person who told him to give it to me. Now, I…
With Adrian Dix, What You See is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
{I can think of four specific instances when Adrian Dix was less honest than I would have been, and less honest than most public servants I have known would have…
starting late on a Saturday night….(okay. completed this time.)
There are a couple of stray thoughts that keep coming to mind in recent months. It begins with something I’ve realized for some time, now. There are certain words that…