5221…It Is A Pink Sunday
NFL goes pink for breast cancer. All October. I am both a fan and an owner. Well a fan of the NFL and an owner of breasts. I am also…
October 2012
Radicals At The Gate
Just as Stephen Harper radically remade the Conservative Party, Michael den Tandt suggests that Justin Trudeau and his inner circle plan to rebuild the Liberal Party from the ground up:…
Psst! What’s The Latest On TMZ?
In the latter part of my teaching career, I had the feeling that those in charge of education, especially on the local level, were suffering from a kind of drift…
Syria Turkey clash: Crisis deepens as Turkey fires more retaliatory strikes for fourth consecutive day
It seems the Syrian government has been gaining the upper had in the rebellion recently. Perhaps this is behind the opening of a new front? http://bit.ly/QNwNVp via @MailOnline
Used book sale
A wee plug for the…. Pleasant Park and Hawthorne Public Schools Used book sale is back! Saturday, October 27 from 9 to 1 Join us in the Pleasant Park gym…
NDP Possibilities in PEI?
I was wasting time at work tonight when I happened upon a funny circumstance that is probably not too well known, and it concerns the politics of PEI. The thing…
Tory Turmoil In Beautiful B.C.
You heard it here first…It was only a matter of time before John Cummins’ bovine stubbornness and deep-seeded arrogance would be rewarded with a full-on mutiny. And you thought the…
Vic Toews – Christian prison chaplains can pick up the slack with religious minority prisoners
Sack the chaplains – except the Christian ones. Seriously? Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews prison chaplaincy cutback is a really really dumb plan, which is rightfully being opposed by…
Whose Connectivism?
I would like to make just one point, that it is not “Siemen’s ‘Connectivism,'” that he gave a name to a theory and approach a number of us had been…
What are you thankful for? Justin Trudeau doesn’t count….
I have a lot to be thankful for, oh I have minor complaints like everyone, but focusing on all the good things in my life does wonders for my outlook…
Gerry Ritz and the Cold Cut Cannon
Four years ago, during a Listeriosis epidemic that killed 22 Canadians, somebody created a video game called the Cold Cuts Cannon.Where you could fire cold cuts at little Gerry Ritz…
My Dinner with Joseph Kony 2012
KONY 2012 In the above link I present to you a movie that over one hundred million people have viewed over the past six months. The YouTube video created by…
Pakistan drone protest: American Code Pink campaigners join PTI peace convoy
According to Pakistan’s Dawn online news, the Tehrik-i-insaf’s (PTI) peace convoy protesting drone attacks made it to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa town of Dera Ismail Khan late Saturday. The peace convoy was…
Jean Philippe Rushton Has Died
We missed it, but not surprisingly Tom Winnicki didn't. Actually he has been shown to be wrong by a good number of scientists, though we're pretty certain that Winnicki and…
U.S. congressman calls evolution, embryology "lies" from "pit of hell"
This would be amusing in a different context; but seriously “embryology”? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBy3MbP4WDo ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia Rep. Paul Broun said in videotaped remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang…
John Laforet: A Grounding End To My Sailing Season
It hit me earlier this week that the fall is here, and winter is coming, and that means I need to begin making plans to put my sailboat away until…