Campaign survival tool: a PVR so you can skip the endless Liberal commercials we taxpayers are paying to air. Or, one of these magic instruments:
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Things we know, or should know
All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten. …simple instructions for a good life, all worth remembering.
Deep-seated seething fury is 2016 frontrunner
Now that Ted Cruz has dropped from the race, it is time to consider the Presidential candidate suggested in 2012 by one important American media outlet. The Onion After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot […]
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Flaws of classic cars
In moments of honesty, we older folks will admit the cars of our youth are better in memory than they were in reality. I knew a man who lovingly restored an early […]
British satire continues
I enjoy Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, a BBC Two satirical program now in a third series. BBC TV is not readily available in North America without use of a proxy server but […]
David Mitchell on investor immigrants
Through the magic of search engines, this item, first published August 2012, draws regular attention from readers. Mitchell is talking about Britain but similar rules for moneyed immigrants apply in many nations, […]
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"Cardboard box? You’re lucky…"
Vancouver firm promises to build home in Third World for every local condo sold, The Province, Feb 2014 “Two Vancouver businessmen have started a real-estate gifting program with the lofty aspiration of […]
Premier Clark ditches coal & LNG for renewables
Christy Clark announced today that British Columbia is terminating coal exports and ending negotiations to provide free land, power, natural gas feedstock, shipping facilities and other capital and operating supports demanded by […]
A changeup – on Major League Baseball
Mother Jones asks, Is Your Team’s Owner a Major League Asshole? Tim Murphy, Ian Gordon, Tasneem Raja, and Sarah Zhang provide information to help us judge. Here are a few examples: Houston […]
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I’m a regular online listener to BBC News Quiz, a panel show created by John Lloyd 36 years ago. It has been hosted by Danish/British author and presenter Sandi Toksvig since 2006. […]
Can we start again?
I’s bin livin my life wrong for three score and more years. I shoulda listened to that fire and brimstone Baptist preacher when I was a kid in East Vancouver. Instead Bobby […]
Suspended coffees
From the forum at Urban Diner, a Vancouver-based online magazine for food and restaurant lovers around British Columbia. By Publisher Paul Kamon: “We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine […]
Good news
People using the Internet are familiar with scam, spam and phishing. For me, it seems to have accelerated in the last 2 weeks. Apparently, I’m a rich, respected person, even among people […]
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