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I thought that syndicated cartoonists had to produce their material a long time ahead of its publish date, but this Non-Sequitur cartoon is very topical:

So apparently, there are a group of feminists who are ticked off with other feminists telling them they should vote for Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman.  My question: are there black voters who feel the same about Barack Obama?  If yes, are the group of African-Americans who would vote for Clinton larger or smaller [...]

Until recently, I’d resisted the urge to aggregate the feeds of all my favourite sites into one spectacular page of posts, but I’ve added a few new sites to check regularly which means opening them all in tabs a couple of times every day just to see if any of them had updated their content [...]

There are two ways of knowing things. You can know a lot of things in not too much detail, or know a few things very well. Schools are designed to teach the former in a world that increasingly values the latter. And schools aren’t even the best place to get in-depth knowledge [...]

I thought that syndicated cartoonists had to produce their material a long time ahead of its publish date, but this Non-Sequitur cartoon is very topical:

Every teacher’s convention I’ve ever been to has had a vendor’s area. I’m sure it’s the same at any professional conference… but I’d wager that no other type of conference has such a wide variety of products and services available. Part of that is the demographic: vendors at a teacher’s convention [...]

Did Jesus die for me, or just for everyone?
This is a question that’s been percolating through my mind for the last couple of days.  Christianity has recently popularized the idea of individualized salvation, through things like saying “replace the word ‘world’ in John 3:16 with your name.”  A recent listen to the song “Sea of [...]

Build a museum extolling the virtues of the Young Earth movement, while deriding science…

Until recently, I’d resisted the urge to aggregate the feeds of all my favourite sites into one spectacular page of posts, but I’ve added a few new sites to check regularly which means opening them all in tabs a couple of times every day just to see if any of them had updated their content [...]

I’ve had these headphones for about a month now, so I thought I’d toss up a quick review. In a word: great! These headphones are the extremely improved version of their disastrous iPod Wireless Headset (everyone I’ve ever heard of who bought these had the headband break under the pressure of keeping the [...]

If you haven’t seen it before, the blog “Stuff White People Like” is absolutely on-the-money! A sample:
#7 Diversity
White people love ethnic diversity, but only as it relates to restaurants.
Many white people from cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York will spend hours talking about how great it is that they can get [...]

So after not winning one in Edward Willett’s giveaway, and not finding one at any local bookstores, I finally picked up a copy of Marseguro at McNally Robinson in Saskatoon. I bumped it to the top of my reading pile (only six books at the moment) because I’d enjoyed his previous scifi outing, Lost [...]

This contraption cracks me up - it’s some kind of recursive Rube-Goldberg machine… incredible in its utter uselessness:

Yeah, it’s snowing here again… Mother Nature’s way of saying, “Well, you chose to live here”, I guess… grrr.

Until recently, I’d resisted the urge to aggregate the feeds of all my favourite sites into one spectacular page of posts, but I’ve added a few new sites to check regularly which means opening them all in tabs a couple of times every day just to see if any of them had updated their content [...]

If you haven’t seen it before, the blog “Stuff White People Like” is absolutely on-the-money! A sample:
#7 Diversity
White people love ethnic diversity, but only as it relates to restaurants.
Many white people from cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York will spend hours talking about how great it is that they can get [...]