Monthly Archives: December 2005

Alaska Airlines gets blogged

A pilot was a passenger on Alaska Airlines Flt.536 out of Seattle when there was a loud pop and cabin decompression occurred. Thing is, he had a camera, and he has a blog. The plane landed safely, and according to … Continue reading

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China’s blogs

Recently I read somewhere that China employs 45 thousand people full time to monitor the internet. Over Christmas, The Sydney Herald carried an interesting article on China’s bloggers. But with anything between 2 million and 8 million active web logs, … Continue reading

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Life Happening

It’s been a hard couple of days for people I care about. I got a phone call yesterday from a friend who had just taken his wife into emergency. She is a nurse, he was a pharmacist. They were concerned … Continue reading

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Liberal exec slurs just about everybody

Mike Klander is a executive in the Liberal Party in Canada, one of the Ontario senior liberal attack dogs, and the riding president in Toronto Danforth, who has really pulled a nasty one. Klander set up a blog. Then he … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas!

Don’t expect too much of Christmas Day. You can’t crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. Oren Arnold God, this is Your season. Enable each visitor to this blog … Continue reading

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Christus natus est

looking back…looking forward Quartus I don’t understand why they are so upset! We don’t have the money to pay for the doctors. (That’s why the hospital emergency rooms are closing.) We don’t have the money to pay for the books. … Continue reading

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Jews for Jesus

A US evangelical organization called Jews for Jesus is suing Google. Really. You can’t make this stuff up. Christian evangelical group Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc., saying a Web log hosted through the Internet search leader’s Blogspot service … Continue reading

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The criminalization of poverty

This from the Toronto Star blog: After a single Quebec father of three was fired from his job at Zellers for taking discarded chocolate bars from a garbage bin at a St-Hyacinthe story, the media understandably swarmed on the heartbreaking … Continue reading

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