There were so many mistakes in iTunes that I spent hours correcting names, tracks, album art, etc., only to have all my work disappear with the next update. I gave up on Apple.

Mark Carney resume vs Pierre Poilievre

The choice is pretty damn clear!
#cdnpoli

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

This is a beautiful tribute.

So anyways…

The TBA folks are boosting this poll…

Sure would be a shame if you voted in it…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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It's been zero days since we've been ashamed of our joke of a premier here in Alberta.

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Not my first fish caught on a fly, but the first one I caught with a fly I had tied was a brown trout I caught on a Mickey Finn. For years afterward, I had to convince people that a brown would take an MF.

It’s 2025 and John Brown’s body lies a-moulderin’ in the grave, but Luigi marches on! - Alberta Politics Happy New Year, I guess. This year may not turn out to be much better than the last one, but I do have a question for the first day of 2025:  What happens to our Canadian public health care system if ...

It’s 2025 and John Brown’s body lies a-moulderin’ in the grave, but Luigi marches on! albertapolitics.ca/2025/01/its-...

The Oval Office.

Despite the optimism of its spokespeople, big Trump tariffs would spell a bleak future for Alberta’s beef industry - Alberta Politics Despite a few squawks about the potential impact of Donald Trump’s promised 25-per-cent tariff on All Things Canadian, at least in its public statements Alberta’s cattle industry has been surprisingly...

Despite the optimism of its spokespeople, big Trump tariffs would spell a bleak future for Alberta’s beef industry. albertapolitics.ca/2024/12/desp...

Putin will eventually fall out of a window and be replaced by someone worse. You heard it here first.

All these followers and I just don't know where they are coming from?

JFC

Image of a block of text from Ursula K Le Guin's "Cheek by Jowl" in which she writes about Watership Down.

I love Tumblr because things like this, Ursula K Le Guin's takedown of Watership Down, come on my dash and it's incredible and eye-opening and I am so angry at myself for not having the critical thinking skills to even have noticed this before...

Fireside Al was the best.

Austria 1938

Alberta Surrenders to the Australian Coal Lobby | The Tyee Smith’s government dumps a load of denial and new risks just before Christmas.

Andrew Nikiforuk: The Alberta government gave its citizens an Australian sack of “modern” coal for Christmas, as well as a load of misinformation accompanied by a mountain of disingenuousness. 🏔 #abpoli

Jordan Peterson appearance in Detective Comics

Chief Actuary’s report on UCP plan to raid Canada Pension Plan fund: Forget about getting 53% - Alberta Politics Let’s cut right to the chase: What the analysis made public yesterday by the Chief Actuary of Canada shows is that if Alberta were to split from the Canada Pension Plan it would only be entitled to 20...

Chief Actuary’s report on UCP plan to raid Canada Pension Plan fund: Forget about getting 53% albertapolitics.ca/2024/12/chie...

It seems easy to trigger the orange one.

Many people are saying it. #PresidentMusk #VPTrump

If this is announcing that the UCP are handing over Alberta’s foothills and Southern Alberta’s water supply to the richest person in Australia…

Make Christmas conversation lit this year.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I got 14/15 too. Not bad for an atheist.

This was obvious from the moment he resigned as top cop.

I like some of them. Chips are on my "shouldn't be eating these because carbs" list. So I only indulge occasionally.

Oh, this could be good!

Yes, I like and remember the Christmas and Great Pumpkin shows, but everything else has left no memories.

On average, there are 56 homicides committed per day in the US. Most of the victims are not multimillionaires. Most of the cases don't make worldwide news. Most don't involve the FBI, nor a $60,000 reward. How we dedicate our collective attention to the life of a 1% says a lot about equality under the law. There isn't.

Anyone with a single billion dollars is sitting on as much money as three people could spend living in ridiculous luxury and extravagance for a century.

In a world where people die of preventable causes from poverty, it's no different than hoarding food in a famine or medicine during a plague.

Attention new followers: I don't know why you followed me. I am not that billionaire. I had the name first. If you continue I warn you to expect irregular posts on Alberta and Canadian politics. And some back and forth with people I know. And occasional bits of schadenfreude. Unfollow if you wish.