Foolish words that still resonate
Foolosopher. What a wonderful word. Not much in use these days, but it ought to be. It is a portmanteau word, first used in English way back in 1549*, according…
humour
I’m Drilled On Mars
I’m excited to learn that my name is selected as a site on Mars. I am unable to easily find which John Klein it’s really named after, but I’ll take…
Snow Day Entertainment
The world is full of some really dumb, really lucky people. -srbp-
Late night
Andrew Sullivan posted this today as people have been having fun riffing off Chuck Hagel’s name. Video is a brilliant bit from Monty Python. Note to self: Ensure I subscribe…
A News Hope
I missed this Rap News from last May. You won’t want to miss it. If it’s confusing though, you’ve got fifty minutes of documentary catch-up, plus some news footnotes to…
Late night
Louis ck does Lincoln. I hadn’t seen this until tonight. Very fun.
Lake Superior State Unicorn Hunting Regulations
Lake Superior State University apparently has a sense of humour. On the school’s website you can find an interesting regulation relating to an endangered species on campus: Unicorn Hunting Regulations…
A Council Christmas Carol – Part 2
STAVE TWO (continued from Part 1). THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS. I awoke in the dark, late Friday night. Winter days are so short that sometimes it seems a…
happy howlidays!
Love and happy holidays from all of us at chez wmtc. In 2013, raise your voice! Howl for peace, howl for justice. Howl for change.
A Council Christmas Carol – part 1
STAVE ONE. It was one of those long winter days. I was back in town late, that Thursday, well after dark, driving down the main street watching the heavy snow…
Elizabeth May’s Diabolical Plan to Change Canadian Politics
Elizabeth May’s diabolical plan was tucked away in plain sight, in a tiny publication on Vancouver Island: “What I want to be able to do is get better research and…
Times are tough all over
But apparently they are so tough in the United Kingdom that the Prime Minister has resorted to a version of the Nigerian scam. From the SRBP e-mail inbox: Our ref:…
Conservative Rorschach Test: Part Five #nlpoli
“Quebec” -srbp-
The Spirit of Christmas
@saskboy I think the news story is the PERFECT example of why helping the homeless is generally a waste of good will and effort.— Adrian MacNair (@unambig) December 03, 2012…
How to Survive the Mayan Apocalypse
How will anyone survive the “end of the world” predicted for December 21, 2012? Easy: by breathing. That’s because it won’t happen. That the Mayans never predicted it would seems…
Democracy Reruns
When you’ve blogged for as long as I have, I have the luxury of being able to reference my own writing for most subjects I’m interested in. So right now…
If it’s on the Intertubes… #nlpoli
Keith Hutchings is the Minister of Twitter. At least that is what the Wikipedia entry for the Newfoundland and Labrador cabinet minister said on November 21: In GovSpeak, he would…