Wackiness: 60/100
Rationality: 60/100
Constructiveness: 76/100
Leadership: 44/100
You are a WRCF–Wacky Rational Constructive Follower. This makes you Paul Begala. You are unflappable and largely unconcerned with others’ reactions to you. You were not particularly interested in the results of this test, and probably took it only as a result of someone else asking you to.
You have [...]
All this time and money wasted on fashion–do you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best–dressed men and women in the [...]
Published 4 years, 4 months ago 10 commentsRudy Carrasco of Urban Onramps is a well-known and liked god-blogger.
He has set up another blog which is about his son Sam.
Sam has just been diagnosed with leukemia, and is in Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.
I lost a brother to leukemia, and my heart goes out to this family.
A cold hard rain continues to fall and I just awakened after sleeping for 14 hours. It was raining and rumbling when I hit the pillow and it is still coming down. Living outside urban areas gives one an appreciation for the whims of the weather. We’re fairly lucky here, and have escaped [...]
Published 4 years, 4 months ago 7 commentsThe severe weather that hit the Edmonton area moved east quickly and it’s getting time to log off and unplug the computer.
We’re expecting nearly 2 inches of rain over the next 12 hours.
I’ve been outside, the temperature dropped 10 degrees over the past couple of hours and the heat lightening is now becoming storm [...]
Shrek 2 has been banned in Isreal until an offensive line can be redubbed.
The line in the American version is “let’s Bobbit him.” The Isreali dubbing uses the line, “let’s do a David Daor on him.” Daor had just cause to object to the crudity. He represented Isreal in the Eurovision Song contest.
There is historical [...]
A young man falls off a roof and dies.
A tourtist yells at another tourist to stop giving to beggars.
A murder happens down the street.
The general approach, which you find in all the oh-so wise guide books, is that you should ignore beggars, because if you give them something, you’ll only encourage further begging.
Thing is, for [...]
I had a couple of very ugly moments yesterday I wish with all my heart I could take back.
But I can’t.
And I can’t justify, rationalize or intellectualize my behaviour and words.
I really wish I’d done the cyber equivalent of ‘bite my tongue’, and ’sit on my hands’.
But I didn’t.
I let lose in anger and frustration [...]

“We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren’t but only weak ones about who we are. We’re passionate about what we don’t want to become but oddly passive about More
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