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 Google chat I was listening to last week; wrote down the title of the vid, didn’t write down the guy’s name). This reminded me of an article link I’ve wanted…
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. Recently, he went overboard-off-the-deep-end with criticism of Justin Trudeau and his family after Trudeau kissed brides or babies at some wedding. But Ezra hits a home run…
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 previous post. Can’t say exactly why I like small coincidences like this, but I do. Two Nanas in two days. So there’s that. More importantly, the article contains…
Breaking Bad spin-off gets an eponymous song promo/jingle with Junior Brown crooning “Better Call Saul”: Saul, Saul, you better call Saul, He’ll fight for your rights when your back’s to the wall. Stick it to the man, Justice for all, You better call Saul. h/t The Ambler (via email)
It’s starts off with a guy swigging from a bottle of vodka and slowly develops into a great free-wheeling discussion about journalistic ethics. I’m referring to the latest Google Chat posted on YouTube by Internet Aristocrat: Lazy Thursday Stream – 10/09/14. The audience gets warmed up with the usual BS about penis size. Then the…
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 jihadists may infect themselves to spread virus in West It’s also a question this publication had unwittingly answered elsewhere the same day. Different motivation, different side, different war, different era,…
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. 8, 2014, Bloomberg: Keystone Be Darned–Canada Finds Oil Route Around Obama
“Daddy, what are spapers? It says here that new spapers are dying. Are old ones dying, too? I googled it and it asks, ‘Do you mean papers?’” Heh. Just practicing writing dialogue. Gonna need a new writing career because there aren’t many left in journalism these days. Today we have this: Winnipeg Sun: Postmedia buys…
You’ve lost that Facebook feelin’ Whoa, that Facebook feelin’, You’ve lost that Facebook feelin’ Now it’s gone, gone, gone, whoa I realize now I prefer to post things on a blog rather than in a social media setting. I like the control. It’s like working in my own shed as opposed to performing tasks out…
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 scientists are not “getting it”? I don’t think so. They get it (but scientists are no longer the new clergy; they’re now the old clergy, grown corrupt)….