Seasons Greetings!
The Soapbox family and Rudy the rescue dog would like to wish you and yours a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and a peaceful and happy holiday. Some of you may…
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2022 Story of the Year?
Options for top stories of the year? Sooooo many choices. The post 2022 Story of the Year? first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Do kids still play with toys? Yes, MY toys!
The other day, one of my sons asked a seemingly silly question: do kids still play with toys? At first, I thought the question was weird, but as he explained,…
Plague Update: Logic Fails
There’s a cartoon showing how many people still think that COVID-19 is just like chicken pox, and you aren’t likely to get a symptomatic infection another time while healthy, so…
Fusion on Earth is Working, but Decades From Daily Use
There’s a big problem, however. Despite being able to do fusion, it’s not commercially viable, possibly for decades. This isn’t going to save us from fossil fuels in time like…
FTX O’Leary Loves
Watched an AOC Facebook story that mentioned the freshly arrested head of FTX had admitted to donating as much to the GOP as he openly did to Democrats. Is that…
Yes, Virginia, Supermarket Profits HAVE Expanded
Supermarket executives were up on Parliament Hill this week, appearing before the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food’s inquiry into food inflation grocery chain profits. They repeated the now-familiar argument…
Magpie Brûlé is Dead! Long Live Magpie Brûlé!
Time for a New Start It’s been a while folks and it’s been quite the year here in 2022. While it’s still not done, there have been a lot of…
Plague Update: Can’t Handle The Truth
One of the best doctors in the country, not only for the health services he provides, but for his outreach regarding the climate crisis, is Dr. Joe Vipond. Here he…
Ontario’s Bolsonaro Acts on Bill 23, aka the ‘Bulldozer Bill’
Corruption, criminal disregard for the environment, tyrannical blocking of local councils. These are just a few issues with Bill 23 from Ontario’s Bolsonaro. The post Ontario’s Bolsonaro Acts on Bill…
The World Cup is over. For me, anyway
There is a silver lining to Canada’s abrupt and rather humbling dismissal from the FIFA World Cup … I won’t have to watch any more soccer. Oh, I might tune…
Bad days for billionaires
Next time you’re paying $5 for a head of lettuce, consider this – things could be so much worse. You could be a billionaire. I mean, c’mon. These poor schlubs…
Why Drive A Gas Car When There Are EVs?
The following was given as a presentation to the Unitarian Fellowship of Regina. I enjoyed my time this morning after being invited to speak about Electric Vehicles. == Most adults…
A Short Break
Dear Readers: I’m working on a project so there will be no blog this week. However if you’d like to share your thoughts about the UCP’s latest missteps (there certainly…
November
There are things going on. From absurd numbers of kids home sick from school, to the Grey Cup going on today in Regina. The most vocal civilian critic of the…
How TSN is hurting the Grey Cup, and the CFL
Once upon a time, most of Canada would gather around the ol’ RCA (or Philco, or Dumont, or Electrohome) to watch the Grey Cup game, the championship of the good…
Plague Update: Upon Reflection, Let Me Off This Ride
Here’s a frank account of what the last 3 years have held for hopes, dreams, and ultimately failures. I can’t disagree with his points. Here’s my summary. We went into…
On the Hon. Premier Smith, the Hon. Adrianna LaGrange and on the responsibility of MUSH Institutions: Did the Education Minister tell the Premier that Calgary Board of Education (CBE) could make changes?
I would love to be a fly on the wall when Alberta’s Minister of Education tells the Premier of Alberta that Alberta School Boards should be allowed to deal with…
Grounded: one man’s airline hell
My son Scott recently experienced a truly dreadful experience trying to fly out of Ottawa. Here’s his blog … When I was a young man, I visited a friend of…
Methane EMIT
There’s a European satellite watching for methane pollution. It spotted a big leak in Alberta. ISS has a camera called EMIT attached and it can see methane plumes on Earth.…