What is it about the combination of food and government antics that send journalists into a pun-frenzy? Never mind the Europeans and their food regulations. Here’s what the news ticker looks like regarding the whole White House “Beer Summit” silliness: White House “beer summit” aims to quench racial flap Beer Diplomacy: The Red, Light and Blue [...]
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Check out this three-part series of Climate Wars narrated by the venerable Gwynne Dyer on CBC Radio : http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/climate-wars/index.html (hat tip to Kirsten W) (WARNING: Requires 3 x 50 minutes of semi-attentive listening, so plan/multitask as necessary.) THE BIG PICTURE Dyer examines the geopolitics of climate change, and looks at some of the remedies being proposed for [...]
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Here are two graphs done early this year, regarding U.S. job losses resulting from the current financial recession, as compared to previous recessions. Both graphs use the same data, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but the difference between the graphs is startling. The first graph was put out by the office of a politician, Nancy Pelosi. [...]
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Dragon’s Eggs… they’re just like popcorn, only buttered with a magnesium-aluminum alloy… Tasty! Whistlers… or as D.E.S. would call them, Screaming-Slytherin-Quiddich-Players-From-Hello-Without-the-O Scrambling Comets… cf. Whistlers Salute… used for those grande finales, blinding-Titanium-white explosions of earth-shaking, ear-splitting, bowel-moving power The World’s Biggest Firework Shell… 48 inches of incinerating love… haven’t seen this one personally, but apparently [...]
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Update to last year’s misguided concept of Canadian-American Dual Citizen’s Day, via Facebook: Dan is celebrating Northern North American Dual Citizen’s Day http://danspira.wordpress.com/2008/07/02 Aliza at 8:59pm July 2: Wouldn’t 11:52:30 tonight until 00:07:30 July 3 be the North American Dual Citizen’s minutes of celebration? That’s equidistant from July 1 and July 4. And, everyone deserves their [...]
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Here’s a follow-on to last year’s little video tribute to Canada Day: Living in the U.S. can be a challenge for Canucks. As a literature professor once explained to me, in the American story, a hero’s rite of passage consists of a road trip across the United States and/or losing his/her virginity. The Canadian hero, on the other hand, either battles [...]
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