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Month: February, 2005

Lost Labor

25 February, 2005 (17:33) | Photography, Sociology | No comments

If you love photography , sociology, history or any combination thereof you will love this collection:

LOST LABOR: Images of Vanished American Workers 1900-1980 is a selection of 155 photographs excerpted from a collection of more than 1100 company histories, pamphlets, and technical brochures documenting America’s business and corporate industrial history This collection has been assembled [...]

Friday humour

25 February, 2005 (06:33) | Humor | 1 comment

The maths teacher saw that little Johnny wasn’t paying attention in class. She called on him and said, “Johnny! What are 2 and 4 and 28 and 44?”
Little Johnny quickly replied, “NBC, CBS, HBO and the Cartoon Network!”
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At Sunday School they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings. Little Johnny, a child [...]

Progressive Principles

24 February, 2005 (20:50) | Political | No comments

If there’s anything that has come out of the loss in November it is the need for progressives to clearly define what they believe in. Those things that are not negotiable. Things that can not be tossed aside for political expediency. In a word, principles.
This is a lesson the right wing learned a long time [...]

We interrupt this broadcast for an important announcement

24 February, 2005 (15:02) | Personal | No comments

My day

We now return you to your regularly scheduled madness.
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Gonzo goes to heaven

23 February, 2005 (22:04) | Avery Ant, Humor, Media | No comments

Avery Ant bids a fond adieu to Hunter S Thompson:
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Yet another virus

23 February, 2005 (21:53) | Computer | No comments

Warning from the FBI
The FBI is warning the public about malicious e-mails designed to appear as if they were generated by the law enforcement agency.
In a statement released late Tuesday, the FBI detailed the threat, which attempts to lure e-mail users into opening an attachment containing a computer virus.
The mail is disguised as correspondence warning [...]

Lesson learned

22 February, 2005 (20:08) | Political | No comments

So let me get this straight:

5 years ago the BC Liberal party gets elected and starts cutting costs.
In the process of the above they close hospital wards and make all kinds of cutbacks
as a result of the above, in combination with massive growth in population, the Fraser Valley Health Authority (FVHA) starts [...]

All our Fear and Loathing belongs to us

21 February, 2005 (18:15) | Literarature, Media, Political | 2 comments

When Hunter S. Thompson took his own life yesterday we lost more than a cultural icon. We lost a real journalist. We lost someone who was not afraid to speak the truth about politics and society. Someone whose in your face, outrageous, alternate reality, his blend of fact and fiction, cast a very [...]

The Queen’s Navy

20 February, 2005 (19:19) | Miscellaneous, Sociology | 2 comments

Congrats to the Royal Navy. Not only is the Queen the head of the Navy bit the Navy is now openly recruiting queens to serve in the navy.
It is a liaison that would once have turned many military top brass purple with rage. Five years after the ban on homosexuality in the [...]

Did I Read That Sign Right?

20 February, 2005 (09:56) | Humor | 1 comment

In An Office: toilet out of order…… please use floor below
In A Laundromat: automatic washing machines: please remove all your clothes when the light goes out
In A London Department Store: bargain basement upstairs
In An Office: would the person who took the step ladder yesterday please bring it back or further steps will be taken
In An [...]

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