The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm- Are Plants Drunk Off the Excess Carbon Dioxide?
- The Articler
- In the Presence of Dentyne
- The Space Yoyo
- Pieing Lou Ferrigno
- Light at the End of the World
- H. G. Wells, the Teenage Sidekick of the Father of Science Fiction
- The Right is Right, But the Left is More Right: A Mathematical Proof
- The Ads About Nothing
- Newfoundland Houndstooth
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Some See Ranges, I See Rings
It was with shock, a few years back, that I found out that anarchists are considered to exist on the far left of the political spectrum. You see, I just presumed that extreme right wingers were the anarchists, with their … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, History, Language, Mathematics, Music, Politics, Science, Stage and Screen, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged Anarchy, Art, fine arts, knowledge spectrum, left and right in politics, political spectrum, primary colours, rings, Science, spectrum
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An RPG of Nerds
Perhaps you’ve heard of one of the English language’s creative sides. That of calling a group of the same animals by a specific word. Like a pod of whales or a gaggle of geese. Some of these can be quite … Continue reading
The Liberation Treatment
News of the Liberation Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) has been getting more and more press in the media I’ve been exposed to. Dr. Paolo Zamboni found that 100% of the MS sufferers he tested had abnormal veins. These veins, … Continue reading
I Believe in Astrology
It’s certainly not the newspaper horoscopes that have me believing. I used to read the newspaper from start to finish and that included the horoscope. I spent years waiting for what was supposed to happen to my fortune and not … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Pseudo Science, Science
Tagged astrologers, astrology, birth date, horoscopes, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, moon and planets, newspapers, Ophiuchus vs Scorpius, predicting tides and year length, sorted by calendar year, stars, symbols, traits of the astrological signs, zodiac
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Blast From the Past II
In the 1993/1994 school year, I contributed political cartoons to my York University student newspaper. So all of the following cartoons featuring Jacques O’ Christmas Tree were published in the Lexicon back then. I’ll try to make the jokes clearer … Continue reading
The Weird, Weird West
We’ve all heard about the wild, wild west of the 1800′s of the US. Canada’s west wasn’t quite as wild back then with more order than our southern neighbours. But up here, what leads to the weird, weird west are … Continue reading
James Moore gets Cartoond
Heritage minister, James Moore, is depicted above. You may ask, “Why did he get Cartoond?” Well mainly because he chooses not to listen to Canadians. On Twitter, he blocked my sister, Laurie, since he decided any critique by her would … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cartoon, Humour, Music, Politics, Stage and Screen, Writing
Tagged Canada, cartoond, copyright, Harold Albrecht, Heritage Minister, James Moore, Laurie Russwurm, Russell McOrmond, Twitter
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Plant a Tree for that SUV
Have you heard about carbon offsets? Companies and countries are playing this new game, trying to lower carbon emissions first, but if they can’t, buying into another company’s or country’s scheme to offset the emissions they can’t cut. Lucky for … Continue reading