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I'm a father of two, husband, an IT professional, old-school hacker, reformed photojournalist, autodidact, beer brewer, beekeeper and a general pain-in-the-ass. I prefer the more general term of "weirdo".

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Pop quiz: how many Mounties (both regular RCMP and riot squad) does it take to escort an Owelympic torchbearer?

It’s hard to say. I couldn’t count them all. This video is from Oct 31 when the torch went through Cowichan, BC. This isn’t a dignified run like it has been in the past, it’s a freak show: a dozen motorcycle cops, three van-loads of riot police, 6 or 8 cops on mountain bikes, who knows how many police in cruisers, corporate vehicles straight out of the Santa Claus parade from hell AND six cops running with the torchbearer!

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I’d like to add a step to the thinking of all scientific researchers. Make them ask themselves this question: “Just because I can do something, should I do it?”

It might prevent some of the scary shit coming out of academia. Like this: Read the rest of this entry »

Oh. my aching sides … I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. I never had the Chinese government pegged for a bunch of comedians, but they are.

Periodically, I pick up The Epoch Times at lunch time. It’s a multi-national newspaper/news organization founded by practitioners of Falun Gong in 2000. Originally used a primarily an Anti-Chinese government propaganda paper, it’s progressed into quite a decent newspaper. In an age of lazy-ass reporting, that’s saying something.

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It’s 24 years late, but 1984 has arrived on Queen’s University campus:

Your friend’s new fuchsia fedora might be hideous. But don’t call it gay, or you might get a language lesson from the conversation cops.

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