sduford on Jul 19 2008 | Filed under: Miscellaneous, Panama, Rant, Travel
If you’ve ever tried to find a good map of Panama, you most likely came off disappointed. They are difficult to find, and most are not very good at all.
There is one map of Panama that is excellent. Well, it is actually a map of Costa Rica on one side, and Panama on the other. [...]
sduford on Feb 01 2008 | Filed under: Politics, Rant, Science
Maybe I should create a series on Stephen Harper and his striving to imitate Bush. It seems like not a week goes by these days without Harper and his government doing something appalling.
Now he’s decided to take another page from Bush’s book and censor scientists from Environment Canada so they will not say anything that [...]
sduford on Feb 01 2008 | Filed under: Media, Rant
By now I’m sure all my readers know about my dislike of the media, especially in the USA, but increasingly in Canada too.
This morning, CBC New World, a national cable news network, is spending 5 minutes our of every half-hour on that little insignificant and dumb brat called Britney Spears.
Meanwhile, on top of all the [...]
sduford on Jan 27 2008 | Filed under: Politics, Rant, Science
Our little bully of a Prime Minister is continuing to do his best to imitate the big bully to the south of the border. This time he has, just like Bush did before him, decided to kill the National Science Advisory office.
Harper, just like Bush, has obviously no need for a reality-based Science Advisor who [...]
sduford on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Media, Rant
The media is once again showing its total ineptitude today. I’m watching TV this morning and no matter what news broadcast I tune to, they are spending 75% of their time on the death of Heath Ledger.
Now don’t get me wrong, he was a brilliant young actor and his death is tragic. But his death [...]
sduford on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: Rant
Our Conservative Government led by mini-dictator Stephen Harper is once again getting on its knees and kissing Bush’s butt.
A government published list was correctly identifying the USA as a country where one can get arrested without charge and then tortured. The US Government cried foul and the US ambassador called this listing “absurd”.
If the US [...]
sduford on Jan 09 2008 | Filed under: Media, Rant, Science, Skepticality
Here’s a good example of the media’s ineptitude at critical thinking and providing valid information to the people. Start by watching this video of a news report: Fuel from Salt Water! Yes it does sound crazy, no it won’t change the world.
The reporter, obviously having no understanding of basic high-school science, buys the whole [...]
sduford on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Media, Miscellaneous, Politics, Rant
I’ve long been arguing with my American friends and acquaintances that their main stream news media is so desperately deficient, the average American is woefully uninformed about the real world. This was painfully apparent in the aftermath of 9/11, when virtually all the American media went totally numb, and refused to show any news report [...]
sduford on Dec 06 2007 | Filed under: Politics, Rant, Science
I am appalled by our Prime Minister’s behaviour on the environment. Clearly, he is driven purely by the money boom in his own Province of Alberta where the race to exploit the oil sands faster is causing billions of dollars to flow into the province. But oil sands processing is causing an environmental disaster of [...]
sduford on Sep 11 2007 | Filed under: Politics, Rant
On this 6th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, I hope that politicians and other people in positions of power will go beyond the photo-ops provided by the moments of silence, the candlelight vigils, and the distribution of useless remembrance ribbons.
Let’s hope they will do something to help the thousands of workers who toiled in and [...]
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