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December, 2011:

Welcome to the Kobe System

This is the video where Kobe sells out his self respect.  Expect an appearance as Triple H’s tag team partner on WWE to come in the next year or two.

Submission to physical abuse?

I know many of you are John Piper fan boys but this is appalling. Piper is telling women to "submit" to abuse for a season and then go to the church. Really? What about an abuse shelter? What about pressing criminal charges? What about leaving him? Abuse can never be tolerated. Piper talks about abuse [...]

Resolutions

Wendy posted her New Year’s Resolutions so I thought I would post mine. Take the stairs to the top of The Lighthouse at least daily.  This seems like a really good idea now that building is only four stories but when the new tower is nine stories this summer, it could be a really bad [...]

Obama/Clinton 2012

Robert Reich thinks a Obama/Clinton in 2012 is what is needed to save the Obama presidency. My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President. So the Democratic [...]

Why are movie revenues dropping?

Roger Ebert tries to explain. Ticket prices are too high. People have always made that complaint, but historically the movies have been cheap compared to concerts, major league sports and restaurants. Not so much any longer. No matter what your opinion is about 3D, the charm of paying a hefty surcharge has worn off for [...]

I am not alone

Many men hate to shop for clothes so we shop in bulk. I hate to shop. For the last 20 years I only shopped once every two or three years. I would go to the big and tall store and buy only what I could find in 20 minutes, tops – usually a few dozen [...]

Your last day

Former SNL writer, activist, and comedian, Joe Bodolai leaves a stirring suicide note on his blog.

The Star Wars Holiday Special

No wonder why George Lucas wanted it destroyed.

There’s no way like the American Way

Christmas 2011

I hope everyone had a great Christmas.  After a daring battery run to Walmart on Saturday morning, we met up with the Sieberts for coffee/tea and to exchange gifts and Christmas cheer.  After that we headed out to Warman to Lee and Brittany’s place for Christmas Eve dinner to open gifts.  Wendy talked about the [...]

Column: Incentives a better way to deliver holiday cheer

This week’s column for The StarPhoenix A long-standing Saskatchewan tradition is that Social Services Ministry cheques are sent out earlier in December so that recipients can partake in some holiday cheer. It might provide some cheer, but what’s being spent is money for January. A combination of grocery money being spent early on the holidays, [...]

Extreme Table Tennis Shots

I don’t play (well) but you don’t have to appreciate how awesome of these shots are.

Twas the Friday before Christmas

It’s been an interesting week at work and at home.  I might as well first talk about work. For me I should be at home but I am at The Lighthouse.  I have been working with a really paranoid guy and we had been making some progress.  Today some events happened that more or less [...]

Column: Let’s Put More Fun Into Winter

In today’s The StarPhoenix While the winter has been mild so far, it still is winter. That means dressing in layers, being cold and not being able to enjoy so much of what makes Saskatoon great – mainly spring, summer and fall. Even though winter is our dominant season, we don’t do a great job [...]

The Rupture

Some of you knew that Wendy has been quite sick with a violent cough.  She got it from Oliver who coughed so hard he would throw up and get bloody noses from his coughing fits.  While I escaped it, Wendy got the brunt of it and and on Friday night around 3:00 a.m. I went [...]