Today’s News: Ratioed
To begin, I need to give a definition of “ratioed” – Merriam-Webster defines it as “A quantitative measure of how little they like your take.” A tweet is “ratioed” when…
Cathie from Canada
From the Bookmarks
What a week! Here are some palate cleansers I have been collecting: The game will miss these two ❤️@serenawilliams | @rogerfederer pic.twitter.com/G630i4BlSL — ESPN (@espn) September 15, 2022 That is…
Corruption of the Soul
Two very different stories this week, from different countries, and yet there is a connection at their core. Both the DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard stunt and the Poilievre press conference freak-out…
Today’s News: A mind is a terrible thing to lose
Britain appears to have lost its mind over the death of a 96-year-old woman The queen’s funeral is absurdly excessive at this point. — The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 16,…
Today’s News: True Colours
Day Four of Poilievre’s leadership and his true colours are already showing: The nasty politics of the “real Pierre Poilivrer”. This is what he did to one of his own…
Today’s News: Sorting it out
I was trying to sort out the David Akin vs Pierre Poilievre contretemps yesterday and I couldn’t figure out what happened or who did what. I should just have waited…
Notable from the Emmys
We sorta hate-watched the Emmys this year – we hadn’t seen very many of the shows nominated, so the awards didn’t mean very much to us really. I was disappointed…
From my Bookmarks
As I scroll Twitter, I often bookmark interesting comments and funny tweets. But I don’t always get the opportunity to include them in my nightly blog post — sometimes they…
A Community of Healing
It has been just a week since the James Smith Cree Nation was shattered. After the death of Myles Sanderson and his brother Damien, it seems like the world has…
Today’s News: Slava Ukraini
Such wonderful news today from Ukraine – coming so fast now its hard to keep up: Pretty impossible to sleep tonight. The mood. The lyrics: “Russian ship, go f*** yourself!”…
Today’s News: Ukraine, and CNN
Just a couple of highlights tonight — Ukraine’s success, and CNN’s failure. First, Ukraine is kicking Russia out, town by town! Ukraine has broken its silence since the start of…
A Long Covid Compendium
Long Covid is now pretty close to the top of my List Of Diseases I Never Want To Get. For the past several weeks I have been collecting Long Covid…
Today’s News: The Queen is dead. Long live the King.
pic.twitter.com/TXoK0qwny8 — Maggie Keresteci (@MaggieKeresteci) September 8, 2022 What an amazing number of places she went and people she met! This thread shows many of them:
Today’s News: Grieving together
Myles Sanderson was caught today. And tonight he is dead. There was an incredible sense of relief across the province when the arrest was announced: Myles has been captured. Now…
Today’s News: Still at large
We are now in Day 3 following the Saskatchewan massacre and Myles Sanderson is still at large: JUST IN: Mass killing suspect Myles Sanderson is not hiding at #JamesSmithCreeNation, @rcmpgrcpolice…
Today’s News: Continuing the story
The news is fast and furious today as the story about the mass stabbings at James Smith Cree Nation and the town of Weldon continues to be the most important…
A terrible day in Saskatchewan
This morning we woke up to the alerts on our cell phones: Canadian police searched across Saskatchewan for two suspects believed to have stabbed to death 10 people in an…
Weekend funnies
Gordon Lightfoot – 83 years old! – performed at the CNE tonight in Toronto and people loved it, lots of tweets about it. Kiefer Sutherland happened to be in town…
Just following up ….
Tonight, just some follow-ups on some of the stuff I talked about earlier this week: More on conspiracy theories and rage farming: Unbelievable. Do conspiracy theories cluster? Um, yep. –…
Today’s News: Dark Brandon rises
At first I wasn’t sure whether Biden’s speech tonight was a good idea. But seeing the speech and now the reaction to it, I am feeling a very positive vibe.…