To Inquire, or Not To Inquire, Don’t Ask The Question
The latest Coyne article seems to be self defeating in its thesis. “It’s not evident what contribution another public inquiry would make,” opines Coyne. For one thing, we could have…
John Klein
Wasteful Destruction in Gaza
The destruction of this apartment tower is ridiculous. How is it in any way acceptable for a state to destroy an obvious civilian complex with weapons of war? We’re supposed…
An Unstealable Bike
Coming soon, in six to ten months, in Spanish first. A bike made with a frame that comes apart and becomes the lock for the bike. If the lock is…
Police Violence Rages in Ferguson, MO
The out-of-control police response to protests against the killing of Michael Brown in a St. Louis, MO suburb, continues. Our reporter @rdevro was shot with rubber bullets/beanbags by police last…
The Ballad of #MikeBrown
a young Dylan would've written a song: THE BALLAD OF MICHAEL BROWN. #Ferguson— Raffi Cavoukian (@Raffi_RC) August 15, 2014 If you go to Quik Trip You’d better take your gun,…
Epic Fourth
Watched “Epic” about little tree people. “Born on the Fourth of July” a 1989 Tom Cruise movie about a Vietnam vet who protests the war. A Marvel Avengers cartoon movie…
It’s So Hot Out That…
It's so hot out you can't even hear the #climatechange Deniers making jokes about "Where's Global Warming?"…— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) August 14, 2014 Yes, it’s so hot out you can’t…
ConCalls: Michael Sona Found Guilty of Being Pierre Poutine in #RoboCon
While Sona’s been found guilty of one charge, questions remain about how he would have managed to have log files removed from CPC Headquarter’s computer database known as CIMS. "There…
Electric Car Cup T5
Tesla having a range of 250 miles makes a cross continent trip possible, especially if you’re as clever as the inventor of the T5. He gave rides to people in…
Robin Williams is Dead
I blame Canada. The world lost a really genuine person who tried at least as hard as Jim Carey and Steve Carell, to make everyone laugh. Aww shucks, Williams was…
Avoid Brown’s Social House
Nicola Tee wrote: Hey! Just wondering why you have the archaic & sexist rule that your waitresses have to wear a minimum 1″ heel while they’re on their feet all…
The World’s End
Rewatched “Cast Away” a few days ago. Also saw “Dallas Buyer’s Club” which is based on a true story of AIDS in the mid ’80s. It starts out in a…
FOAD #Tarsands
With the mountain of evidence piling up against dirty tarsand bitumen extraction, those who’ve sucked on the oilpatch teat too long to maintain any perspective, are desperate to save face.…
Life Saving Is Their Daily Work
I got to tour EMS Headquarters in Regina while meeting most of the EMTs and Paramedics involved in rescuing me from my cardiac arrest incident on July 1st. (Jordan, was…
Everything is Carbon
Everything is carbon. Everyone's fooled when you're part of Shell's team, everything is dying, when you're living big oil's dream. #Lego— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) July 09, 2014 A little spill…
Canada’s Car Culture Criticized
Glad to see some Danes standing up for Canada. A Canadian stands up for the Danes. The Danes stand up for themselves. A few points have arisen as a result…
UN Under Attack
I’ve avoided making many blog posts on Middle East politics because they tend to descend into dogmatic shouting matches on the Internet. I also don’t know every historic, geographic, religious,…
USB Broken
It’ll be hard to justify using USB now. It basically must be assumed to be malicious/infected. It was so nice to have a standard port too! I guess USB condoms…
Credit card fraud fundraiser
I had a mysterious $150 charge on my credit card from June. I called Visa and asked what it pertained to. They said they’d flag it and that they’d be…
Queen City Ex 2014
Buffalo Days is on in Regina, and I went on the opening day in large part because Lonestar was the headline band in the evening. The iFlip acrobats at #QCX2014…