Math blame, from general to the specific
This article by David Staples in the Edmonton Journal, about dropping math test scores here in Alberta has kicked up some dust locally. Everyone is pointing to ...
Category: Linking, not thinking
Bookmarking an article or event with little commentary
Did someone (else) say ‘bubble’?
This article provides some confirmation of my bubble speculation below; Jan. 16, 2015, ABC News: VC Firms Rain Down Cash on Tech Startups, Is Bubble Brewing? h/...
Looking back at the year that was
Seriously, I’m not going to do what my title says. I put it up there just to fit in with the crowd. 2014? Forget about it. If you’re actually lookin...
A broken model?
Good video from Jan. 14, 2014, by 2veritasium: “The Problem With Facebook” criticizing the business model. (h/t to that guy who recommended it on a ...
No apology necessary… this time
My old boss Ezra Levant (former publisher of The Western Standard, where I worked as a senior writer) can be really on-again, off-again with his show The Source...
To all the girls I’ve loved before, but didn’t stereotype
This post at Chateau Heartiste is being bookmarked because its subject is a video with Nana Mouskouri in it, who by complete coincidence I mentioned in my previ...
Terror and resistance
It is a question that had to be asked. Oct. 9, 2014 Daily Mail: Could terrorists turn themselves into Ebola suicide ‘bombs’? Experts fear ISIS jihad...
Four Strong Winds
Keystone to the south, Gateway to the west, and now Energy East. All we need now is a proposal heading north. Maybe a Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in reverse. Oct....
Grey areas in this cautionary tale
Daily Mail: Scientists warn reading Fifty Shades of Grey can turn you into a binge drinker with multiple sex partners Would it be fair to say that these scienti...
Come, “…learn a lot about tolerance”
Can we adjust the definition of “racist” for a day or two? Hold on, maybe not. Maybe we’ll just print a column with… According to Mary E...