Share on Tumblr If you subscribe to the blog, please note that for the next week or so we will have periods of intermittent oddness as I add the product catalog to various categories. So, watch the feed. I apologize for any inconvenience to readers but once it’s all done, it will be a...
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Share on Tumblr Love him or hate him or have massive amounts of indifference toward him, no one, absolutely no one, sings like the great William Shatner. In honor of his receipt of the Lifetime Achievement Award from Canada’s Governor General, Shatner sings O Canada in a style uniquely his own! Congratulations, Mr. Shatner!...
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Share on Tumblr The Daily Show – Canadian OilverlordsTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Share on Tumblr
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Share on Tumblr Most folks don’t think much about foreskins, in fact, most Americans are pretty much used to not seeing them in the wild . . . so when a proposed ban on circumcision in San Francisco made the news rounds, most folks dismissed it as odd. However, the ban – a universal...
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Share on Tumblr The global war on drugs has failed and governments should explore legalizing marijuana and other controlled substances, according to a commission that includes former heads of state, a former U.N. secretary-general and a business mogul. A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy argues that the decades-old “global war...
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Share on Tumblr The TSA is in the news again . . . I realize that there are very good folks who work for the TSA in the US and that there are very publicity hungry folks who take advantage of the situation . . . but . . . in my experience, sometimes...
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Share on Tumblr Lorraine and I spent the day at Computex. Brian Share on Tumblr
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Share on Tumblr While I have lived in Taiwan for close to twenty-two years, I am still a small town Kansas boy at heart. I was raised in Abilene, Kansas, and still think of it as my “home” in many respects that count. While, Abilene will always be in my heart and I do...
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Share on Tumblr One of my favorite tales from antiquity is the Epic of Gilgamesh (http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/), not least because it includes part of the saga of the goddess Inanna who became Ishtar who becomes the model for so many goddesses and saints after Her. I’ve long had a fascination for this versatile, powerful, and...
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Share on Tumblr Make the Girl Dance . . . Baby Baby Baby . . . because sometimes you just have to rip your clothes off and walk down the street . . . Yes, it’s a bit on the oldish side now but . . . nekkid ladies walking down the street never...
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Share on Tumblr Okay, I will admit it . . . the absolutely only reason I even became aware of this music video, let alone watched it, was simply because Leonard Nimoy is in the beastie, doing a rather engaging self-parody of himself as a grouchy porn-lovin’ old man. Of course, I am not...
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Share on Tumblr Uh, wow . . . see http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam for the story. - Brian Share on Tumblr
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Share on Tumblr In her regular column at the Huffington Post, Marlo Thomas writes of the free to be program and the long long road ahead as children in the US continue to opt for suicide as an escape from bullying. Thomas notes: According to current statistics, one out of every four teenagers across...
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Share on Tumblr What do you get when you mash John Lennon’s Instant Karma with the film version of The Shining? You get the willies, that’s what. Click the full screen button for playback and turbocharge that bout of uncanny. - Brian Share on Tumblr
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Share on Tumblr Lorraine and her sister, Barbara who is visiting from Australia via Hong Kong, decided to check out a scenic lake near our home. I opted out of the trek up the mountain steps and decided to keep my lazy butt down below. Share on Tumblr
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