Friday, July 19, 2013

Friday night music fix

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"we create our own reality"

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Right-wing nut jobs believe some incredibly weird shit: "Cyclists are responsible for gridlock." Only 1.3 % of Ppl rides a bi...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Another day, another murder

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So another white guy shoots and kills another black kid , what's the excuse this time? MILWAUKEE (AP) — The attorney for a Milwaukee...
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Cultural literacy

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I'm noticing a disturbing trend in the newspaper copy I edit. Writers are assuming a stunning lack of cultural literacy in readers and d...
Monday, July 08, 2013

Leadership

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So today, Toronto got more than 90 mm of rain in a couple of hours and low-lying areas of the city, including major highways and rail links ...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Adios Ernesto

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RIP Ernest Hemingway July 21, 1899 - July 2,  1961 Your reading assignments for today are: Hemingway's 1954 Nobel acceptance s...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Signal to noise ratio

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Look at any newspaper, watch any newscast, and compare the amount of space and time given to actual hard news (breaking events, politics,...

your Sunday sermonette

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

We are a nation of immigrants

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The Pier 21 Immigration museum in Halifax commissioned a Toronto production firm to collect about 100 immigrant stories. This is my son...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Sometimes it is the process, not the product, that matters

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Friday, June 07, 2013

Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words

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Thursday, June 06, 2013

" Some people have a way with words, other people just...uh...don't have a way, I guess"

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So you want to be a writer or an actor or a musician? Go read THIS . Twice. Commit it to memory. Have it tatooed on your chest if necessar...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

from your children's cold dead hands, America

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From the "You've got to be fucking kidding me, America" department: Why try to control the spread of push-button death machi...
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so you think you can play harmonica

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Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Not wishing to speak of ill of the dead is a fine sentiment, unless the dead are horrible villains

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"No man is an island. Every man's death diminishes me, for I am a part of mankind. " --John Donne "There is no...
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Sunday, March 31, 2013

A manifesto for the internet age

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Friday, March 29, 2013

What could possibly go wrong?

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Arizona gun proponents launch free gun program By CRISTINA SILVA, Associated Press – 6 hours ago   TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A campaign p...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

An early April Fool's Day prank?

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Has up been declared down and black become white? How did this Toronto Star editorial end up in the Toronto Sun? But it would be foolis...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

What to watch when you're not watching TV

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What if John Hughes directed Game of Thrones? And speaking of Game of Thrones.... What if geek troubadours Paul and Storm too...
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

I'm sure I'm not the only one...

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Admit it, when you saw this picture on the front of the Globe and Mail yesterday, you too were thinking the caption should have been "D...
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