Author Archives: Larry Russwurm

About Larry Russwurm

Just another ranter on the Internet. Now in the Fediverse as @admin@larryrusswurm.org

Back to the Future

Posted on 13 October 2010 by Larry Russwurm

Usually I’m all for getting more for my money. However at times issues of quality raise their heads. It was standard during the record era to have less than 45 minute albums. The maximum seemed to be slightly over 20 … Continue reading →

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Inches in Weight Loss: Ripe for Misdirection

Posted on 9 October 2010 by Larry Russwurm

There needs to be some standard for loss of inches during weight loss, because as it stands, this can be used for deceitful results. There is no scientific standard in this type of reporting although it purports to be more … Continue reading →

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Supposedly 2nd Rate Symbols

Posted on 6 October 2010 by Larry Russwurm

It was common in the ’70s and ’80s to hear Canadians self deprecatingly speak of our national symbols as 2nd rate. A maple leaf was somehow less than an oak leaf . A beaver was a lesser beast than an … Continue reading →

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Almost Nazi Swastikas

Posted on 2 October 2010 by Larry Russwurm

I was surprised a couple of years ago when I saw this Boing Boing article about a Swastika shaped building in the US. In the article it was not even questioned that the offending shape must be changed even though … Continue reading →

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Some See Ranges, I See Rings

Posted on 25 September 2010 by Larry Russwurm

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 →

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An RPG of Nerds

Posted on 21 September 2010 by Larry Russwurm

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 →

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The Liberation Treatment

Posted on 18 September 2010 by Larry Russwurm

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 →

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I Believe in Astrology

Posted on 15 September 2010 by Larry Russwurm

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 →

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Blast From the Past II

Posted on 11 September 2010 by Larry Russwurm

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 →

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The Weird, Weird West

Posted on 8 September 2010 by Larry Russwurm

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 →

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