The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm- Has Liz II Been Cheated Out of an Era?
- Boy is My Face Red
- Liz: ‘No Fascinators at My Diamond Jubilee’
- New Improved Birth Order Theory
- The Ligh-yer Based Professions and the Unending Copyright Wars
- The Ultimate in Anti Intellectuals – Cats
- Stories that are Setting Driven
- Poor Harper – He’s Jonesing Right Now
- An Offbeat Strategy for an Offbeat Party
- The Leap Week Calendar
Category Archives: History
Has Liz II Been Cheated Out of an Era?
On this coming Monday, February 6, 2012 it will be 60 years since Queen Elizabeth II began reigning over Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. This diamond jubilee has only happened once before in British history: Queen Victoria … Continue reading
Portents and the Hesitation of Our Ancestors to Call it a New Year
I’m expecting many of you to know about comet Lovejoy – the little comet that could. It had a run in with the sun that it was not expected to survive in mid December. Not only did it survive but … Continue reading
Boxing Week is for Year in Review Stories
Happy blogiversary the second. That’s right, today’s post marks the conclusion of a 2nd full year of posting. Last year, I posted links to the most popular posts I made that year. This year I won’t do that. Why? Because … Continue reading
Time for an Old Fashioned Folk Off
I’ve always wanted to write a novelty song. It at least goes back to my early guitar playing days. Back then I remember coming up with a chord progression that sounded like a “real” song (I hadn’t done so previously … Continue reading
Posted in History, Humour, Music, Politics
Tagged A Horse with no Name, America, Bob Dylan, distinct voice, folk, Folk Off, guitar, Kent State Massacre, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young, novelty song, Ohio, original song, Southern Man, Sweet Home Alabama
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Got a Sinking Feeling About Fort Knox
One of the wild ideas that I’ve heard of to explore the earth’s interior, is to use iron. Spread a whole lot of iron for a breadth of many kilometres and piled a certain height. Once a certain height of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Humour, Politics, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged could Fort Knox disappear?, did El Dorado sink beneath the crust?, exploration of earth's centre, iron piled with enough breadth and height will sink to earth's centre, less gold is needed to sink to earth's centre, new way to make humans extinct?, wild idea
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Contrary Ontario
Greetings from Contrario, the multiple personality province that votes a different way federally and a different way provincially. If the Progressive Conservatives are in nationally this province will vote Liberal for its provincial leaders. If the Liberals are in nationally, … Continue reading
Famine and Cannibalism
In my news watching lifetime there have been three big famines: the Ethiopian famine of Bob Geldof fame, the Malawi famine of 2002 which was given little press, and the current Horn of Africa famine. Despite brutal circumstances and horrible … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged cannibalism, cartoon, dead had honour, developed world, developing world, Ethiopian famine, explorers, explorers quick to embrace cannibalism, Franklin expeditions cannibalism, Horn of Africa famine, Malawi famine, world's population growth is slowing
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Bye Bye to the Space Shuttle Program
During the Space Shuttle’s last flight this week, many have with melancholy said bye to the whole Space Shuttle program with heaviness in their hearts. I’ve had a heavy heart, too, but largely this post says goodbye to a joke, … Continue reading
The Herd Mentality of Baby Boomers
How many baby boomers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A herd. Why did the baby boomer cross the road? Because another baby boomer did. What do you call a lone baby boomer? Nonexistent. I can feel … Continue reading
The 20th Century Showed that Genocide can be Common
First there was the Armenian genocide that started in Turkey during World War I. Then there was the obvious genocide of the European Jew done by Hitler and the Nazis during World War II. Then in the early ’90s there … Continue reading