11.11: there is no glory in war
Eleven people, on war. * * * * Imprisoned for opposing U.S. involvement in thewar in Europe, Debs ran for President from jail. He garnered 1,000,000 votes, at a time…
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Writing as Therapy
“Writers get a nice break in one way, at least: They can treat their mental illnesses every day.” ~Kurt Vonnegut Photo by Ruslan Alekso from Pexels The post Writing as Therapy appeared first…
The Mother of Confederation
Recently a preposterous letter was printed in the editorial section of the local newspaper. The author stated that the reason you don’t hear about Canada’s ‘founding mothers‘ is because there…
A Collection of Loyal Quotes: Part Five
“A king is a king, not because he is richand powerful, not because he is asuccessful politician, not because hebelongs to a particular creed or to anational group. He is…
Candidates in Airdrie-Cochrane on the Canadian Monarchy
Airdrie-Cochrane is just north of Calgary Perhaps it is because I lived in Alberta a number of years ago or maybe it is because I still have family living there…
rotd: frederick douglass, prophet of freedom
Revolutionary thought of the day: Douglass’s great gift, and the reason we know him of today, is that he found ways to convert the scars Covey left on his body…
My First Hate Mail!
There are milestones in every bloggers life; the first post, firstlike, first comment, first re-tweet, first 1000 daily views. Allhave long-since been surpassed by this blog. But there is onemilestone…
Jagmeet Singh’s Reply to the Monarchist League of Canada
Photo Credit: Yvonne Bambrick Recently, while doing an interview on the topic of the spending of theformer Governor General AdrienneClarkson, Mr. Singh stated that hedid not see the relevancy of…
November 12th, 1918
“If the Allies at the peace table at Versailles had not imagined that the sweeping away of long-established dynasties was a form of progress, and if they had allowed a…
Most Monarchist Comment of 2017?
I have spoken before of how much I like thesite openparliament.ca. There are fewbetter ways to keep track of what Canadianpoliticians are actually saying. I used it agreat deal during…
2 Quotes, 1 Motto and a Photograph
I think that the act of reading poetry nowadays is already an archaic, cultural activity. When we read a poem, it is tantamount to going to pioneer village in order…
The NDP "is not planning any changes to our current form of the parliamentary system"
It is not often I get to talk about issues related to the monarchy on this blog. I mostly keep that on the other blog I writefor. However the Monarchist…
10 Great Socrates Quotes
Socrates lived in 5th century as well. Plato was his student. Great quotes indeed
"humility is the foundation of all learning"
My grandmother had always referred to the universe as the Great Mystery. “What does it mean?” I asked her once. “It means all things.” “I don’t understand.” She took my…
The Thing About
The thing about right wing believers they love a good fight good and evil black and white the extremities heroes and villains sinners and saints But when it comes to…
The Thing About
The thing about right wing believers they love a good fight good and evil black and white the extremities heroes and villains sinners and saints But when it comes to…
Important fake news: Canada, Alberta to erect huge ‘Mother Oil’ statue near Fort Mac?
Screenshot of the WTFAlberta.ca fake news site. Below: Publisher David Climenhaga in his misspent youth, when he still had hair. Painting by Ryn Climenhaga. Alberta Diary is pleased to announce…
Food for thought
Work has kept me away from my latest long fiction project for a while, and this quote keeps floating around my head. (That, and some kind of growling sound…) Alltop…
You tell ’em Kurt
I post this quote for no particular reason. It’s from his collection, Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons. Alltop has some insanely fun links.