I’d like to request a weekly “This Week in Tabloids” because that was a fun trip down memory lane (Madonna and A-Rod!)

And the LOOK on her face when she realized she’d won gold.

And don’t forget that Penny is only 16 years old! Four medals, which is the most a Canadian has ever won at a Summer Olympics. Watching the two hug in the water after the race would warm any heart. Penny was SO excited.

That video of Mark watching Penny win Bronze is DELIGHTFUL

ALSO, I’ve been reading Nalo Hopkinson lately:

May I recommend Octavia Butler’s Lilith Brood. Sci-Fi by an African American author, and it’s goooood. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6092… for literature: Miram Toews, the quiet brilliance of Alice Munro, and the quiet confidence of Carol Shields (RIP). None of these are on the charts right now, so they should…

Biblical Jesus wasn’t American; can’t vote anyway.

VAGINA. VAGINA, VAGINA, VAGINA.

A tempting assumption, but it came out of Facilities Management, and when the VP External saw it she said no way, sexist, take it down. I reaaaaaaly want to believe that if the Media/PR dept were at all involved it would have never even been filmed.

So many, many layers of wrongess here. The video apparently came from Facilities Management, but I’m not sure why their Media and Communications dept wasn’t involved at all. Here’s the response from the VP of External Relations:

For example, in Making History (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Hi…) someone messes with the well water so that Hitler’s mother never conceives. And you know what? the SAME economic conditions existed, and a more charismatic leader headed the Nazis, England joined in, and boom, the Nazis won the second world war.…

ALSO: It’s called the Ministry of Environment and CLIMATE CHANGE (all caps mine for freakin’ emphasis). Take that.

I wore a wedding ring all the time when I was younger and travelling either alone or with friends. So on the one hand, makes sense. On the other hand, wear all the shiny things!