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Author Archives: Larry Russwurm
We Need More of the Mentally Ill in Our Schools
I’m expecting that title to inflame some of you. Maybe then you will get the idea what the NRA did to me when they suggested the answer to school shootings is more guns in the schools. I came up with … Continue reading
Posted in Humourless, Politics
Tagged 5 injured at gun shows today, anosognosia, armed guard plan, Calfornia tragedy mostly averted, Columbine tragedy, crisis lines, mentally ill, National Rifle Association, negotiating classes, negotiator, NRA, NRA conned Philadelphia and New Jersey, NRA made verbal personal attack on president's family, proper vetting necessary, psychiatrists, psychiatry, psychologists, psychology, treated mentally ill negotiator
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Did the Centre Coast Win the Rap Wars?
Now I’m hardly an expert on rap music and can probably only name 20 of its artists so no matter what I say in the following, I will not have proved my premise. Still I do listen to the media … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Music, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 90s rap rivalry, alternative hip hop, centre coast rap, Chicago, Detroit, Drake, east coast rap, Eminem, Great Lakes, hip hop, Kanye West, noughties, Rap music, Teens, Toronto, west coast rap
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I Thought It Was a Starvation Strike
Some of you may have heard of the Canadian aboriginals protest Idle No More. It is a protest put in place to get some movement on aboriginal rights and to help enforce some signed treaties and land claims. The most … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged aboriginals, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, Canada, Governor General won't, healthy person can last a month with no food, hunger strike, Idle No More, international publicity, Irish Nationals hunger strikes were consecutive, liquids allowed in hunger strike, maybe I can finally fast a day, Prime Minister will attend, salt allowed in hunger strike, Spence allowed fish broth and vitamins and medicinal teas, starvation strike
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Is There Some Science Behind the Chinese Zodiac?
Long time followers of this blog may remember my Traiters post of a couple years ago. In that post I said that the trait part of astrology may have some truth to it. (Note: I didn’t and don’t believe in … Continue reading
Posted in Humourless, Pseudo Science, Science
Tagged astrology, astrology Venn diagram, Chinese Zodiac, Chinese Zodiac repeats every 12 years, Chinese Zodiac still not science, do animals of Zodiac coexist or hate each other?, economic cycle, recession babies have different traits, traiters, traits
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It’s 2013, Now We Can Bat our Lashes
One of my biggest disappointments of 2012 is that I didn’t come up with the bat moustache/soulpatch/goatee that came in Bob Kane versions and the stylized latter day Batman design. But this is a new year and I can try … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Humour
Tagged 2012 bat moustache craze, bat, bat emblem, bat eyelashes, bat eyelids, bat lashes, Bob Kane emblem, eyelashes, lashes, latter day batman emblem, moustache
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Faves of 2012
It’s the end of 2012 so let me share a couple of stats with you. I’ve received over 80 000 unique visitors in the three years I’ve had this blog. And in the last year I’ve contributed a 100 new … Continue reading
Meet the New NRA: Militant Socialists
The NRA has a new idea that was brainstormed last week following the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. You’ve undoubtedly heard their call for MORE guns. More specifically they want an armed guard in every school. This will, according to … Continue reading
Posted in Humourless, Politics
Tagged armed guards in schools, armed guards would get much more than minimum wage, guards need to be vetted, gun control is more sensible, less guns, more guns, National Rifle Association, Newtown shooting, NRA, presumably the government pays, security theatre, socialism
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C’mon, High School Teachers, Teach Sensawunda
For this post, I was just going to bitch that the fiction gatekeepers in high school, the teachers, seem to ignore genre fiction. But then I thought back to my education more carefully and realized that grade 11 was a … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Asimov, Bradbury, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, genre fiction, H.G. Wells, Hari Seldon, high school english teachers, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne, Larry Niven, literature, optimism, Orwell, pessimism, psychohistory, Ringworld, science fiction, sensawunda, sense of wonder, The Foundation Series, Utopia
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The True Chretien King Maker
Many have lamented how the left and centre of the Canadian political spectrum have been left out of power for many years. There have been calls for the left leaning NDP and centrist Liberal party to merge in order to … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged Conservatives, F-35 boondoggle, Greens, Jean Chretien, Liberals, natural ruling party of Canada, NDP, Paul Martin, Preston Manning, reason Harper uses smear campaigns, smear campaign, Stephen harper, two right wing parties would assure the left and centre a win, Wildrose Party
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