Saskboy’s Hairy Fun-Razor for Telemiracle
I ended up with some facial hair in the aftermath of the Movember fundraising blitz that swept the nation. It then turned into Decembeard, then Januhairy, now Februhairy is over…
life
Makes Me Furious
This sort of bullying story should not exist in a budding police state, err, I mean civilized Canada. How are the “bullies” who assaulted this girl multiple times not expelled…
My two favourite grrrls
All in all a pretty good day.
Time + Money ≠ Happiness
Trying to make a decision about your life and how to spend the time you have? Well don’t thinking about spending time, in fact don’t let the idea of money-…
Crèpes – my fabulous birthday
So to cap off a lovely birthday, Irene Mallory and I had a lovely meal at Da Sergio and then went home for presents. The day actually began with presents…
Mend it, don’t end it (email, that is)
I blissfully went through the first half of my life without electronic mail, and yet I cannot imagine living without it now. There are specific tasks for which mail (narrowly…
Education disadvantage
If a cash-strapped province or state had to make painful cuts to public services, the immediately noticeable effect would be the outright elimination of some of them. One would not…
Photos of Martin Luther Kings’s tragic death published by LIFE for the first time
LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky captures the scene at the Lorraine Hotel after the shooting of MLK (detail). Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States, and LIFE…
How do We Define Life?
Most of the news that gets covered here is related to new discoveries and good events happening around the world, but sometimes we need to take a step back from…
Predictions for 2012
The end of the year is finally upon us, and an appropriate post must accompany it. Memes are lame, which is why I never rarely do them. Thus, I am…
Can you share this ?
Dear Massimo, Here is how the Wikipedia fundraiser works: Every year we raise just the funds that we need, and then we stop. Because you and so many other Wikipedia…
On the road again
A long and tiring term is coming to a close. Time to celebrate the holidays, then head out to Vancouver for a few days, to end 2011, and then it…
Conservative MP seeks to open emotive abortion debate
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made it clear his government will not reopen the abortion debate. But Stephen Woodworth, the Conservative MP for Kitchener Centre wants to reverse course. And…
Pointless Gossip
What good is a blog if you don’t talk about what you’ve done? Last night I attended a bachelor party. First we went to Laser Quest and shot up a…
Pizza May Contain Veggies, Boards Contain Nuts
Once upon a time, Saskboy made a pizza. It was not according to the design of the requester, instead it had nutritious onions on it. Saskboy got the cold shoulder…
Tony Campolo on Monday night
(Written Monday and delayed in posting due to Occupy Regina ticketing story. I found it ironic that hundreds woukd show up at a church to contribute to homeless and poor…
Copying time
I got the idea for this (silly) blog post from my primary, inexhaustible source of inspiration, but I swear, I have been thinking about doing a blog post on handwriting…
Welcome to Toronto, mister president
Alrighty then. That’s another website to get redone then. Stuck my hand up once again at the wrong time and I am now overseeing the redesign/reengineering of calm.ca. In truth,…
Ibn- Arabi and Whirling Dervishes of Turkey
I have written many times before that life is very complex and human intelligence has serious limitations to understand it. We still fully have not understood the complexity of an…
Life and death in the digital age…
Life… An Ottawa-area woman live streamed the birth of her third child early Sunday. Nancy Salgueiro, a chiropractor and childbirth educator, gave birth to a six pound, 10 ounce boy…