After being President of the United States for almost four years, President Obama still refuses to release his college transcripts (via I Hate The Media): Ed Henry, FOX News: “I don’t know how many years, maybe you do, George Romney released of his college transcripts, but Republicans like to complain that the President has not [...]
Entries from January 2012
Why the secrecy? He already has the job.
January 19th, 2012 · No Comments
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Generating outrage.
January 12th, 2012 · No Comments
What’s wrong with this paragraph in an editorial in The Record? Cures for addiction are seldom pretty. And the cure for a government addicted to overspending is surely so. Drummond appears poised to prescribe massive budget cuts in most provincial ministries — some as deep as 30 per cent — over the next five years. The [...]
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Leaving well enough alone.
January 4th, 2012 · No Comments
This article in the National Post caught my attention today: People from well-educated families are almost twice as likely to suffer from some dangerous food allergies as others — possibly because their bodies’ natural defences have been lowered by rigorous hygiene and infection control, suggests a new Canadian study. I’m not a scientist at all [...]
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A country rife with racism and discrimination?
January 2nd, 2012 · No Comments
I came upon this site via a Twitter link today, but I’m really not sure if it is serious, or just some sort of very bad joke. Teaching For Change is apparently an organization that, in their own words, seeks to to transform America into a more “equitable, multicultural society” by implementing “social justice” education [...]
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Words
January 1st, 2012 · 1 Comment
I love words. I’ve always had an affinity for words; knowing them, defining them, and using them, especially in unusual ways. I enjoy using 50 cent words as we called them when we were kids – those big words that people rarely use – secure in the knowledge that I also knew the simpler way [...]
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