Perhaps I am doing Ralph Nader a disservice, but…

…has he lost his mind?
Go here, listen/watch, and tell me what you think.
The title came from—Warren Buffett was watching post-Katrina in his living room in Omaha, and he saw these streams of poor people fleeing the floods and the winds, and no food, no water, no shelter, on the highways north of New Orleans. And [...]

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Note to self: check for spam

Hello!
I actually had a blog-related nightmare last night.  I dreamt I was checking my stats, and I was down to the “five people a day” level of traffic.  Five people being the SPIKES.  I can’t say it was much of a nightmare, because my reaction was, “Huh.  Guess I should post more…” and here I [...]

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Hound operation manual

We’re going away for the weekend towards the end of the month – without the dogs.  One of my friends is going to stay in our place to look after them, so I’ve written her a little manual on their habits and routine.  Mostly it’s basic information about feeding and walking and preventing aggression, and [...]

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A quick morning Gus…

I don’t have time right now to produce any interesting content, but I ran across this unbelievable picture from when Gus was a puppy:
My brother-in-law just joined Facebook and posted this to his profile.
OK, better content coming later…just wanted to share this for now…

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Huh?

The first sentence of a serious article about a baby with a fatal brain disorder, taken from The Globe and Mail:
TORONTO — Like a shy but serious girl defending her virtue, the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children stepped out from behind its curtain of reserve Thursday for the first time in the long, sad saga [...]

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Surviving the blackout

Last night me and Ben were having a drink at a little bar down the street.  We were having a heated conversation about, I think evolution – or maybe the place of the artist in society, I don’t remember – when the night outside seemed to get a little darker.  The bar owner, Hamid, pointed [...]

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Does this make sense to you?

Item #1: Screenshot from my Ipod

Item #2: Screenshot from the computer

Yes, that’s right, I can get an actual physical copy of the book for EIGHT DOLLARS LESS than the ebook. 
Never mind that making a hard copy of a book employs thousands of people in different fields – cutting down the trees, transporting the trees to [...]

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Richard Dawkins: The Borat of Atheism

I’ve been watching Richard Dawkins’ Root of all Evil? (in case you’re wondering, the answer is “Religion”).  His basic documentary style is to find the craziest person possible and get them to yell at him.  There’s this guy he interviews in Jerusalem, a New York Jew turned Israeli settler turned radical Muslim, who is beyond belief. [...]

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I think I’ll just tag everything with “X Files” from now on

Well, my living-in-the-X-Files-save-me,-David-Duchovny dream has had the most pageviews of anything so far…I think I’ll just tag everything “X Files” from now on, it seems to be a popular tag.
Not that I’ve seen the movie or anything.  Or plan to.  I prefer my rosy memories of the early-mid nineties intact, thank you very much.

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