The Third Edge of the Sword

A cause to get behind

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:36:59 PST

Happy Flag Day, everybody!

Erdoğan Lied, People Died

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:00:41 PST

Iranian First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi wished recovery to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday.Erdogan was discharged on Sunday from a hospital where he underwent a surgery to his digestive system. He is in good health condition. The surgery constituted the second and the final stage in Erdogan's treatment cycle.Rahimi phoned Erdogan and wished a good health for

CBC Hockey Day in Canada FAIL

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:57:42 PST

Okay seriously CBC, I've been stuck staring at this for 10 minutes now.Oddly enough, the commercials are streaming just fine.

Even the CBC agrees with me that Alberta is not part of Canada

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:57:20 PST

Marketing FAIL

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:08:20 PST

Weather is all relative.

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:14:26 PST

The average daytime high in Edmonton for December 2011 was +5.6. Hell, the average overnight low in Edmonton last month was around -8.It's currently -18 in the city, and thanks to the last few days it still feels pleasantly warm outside.Funny how that works.

Premier Mom

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:18:15 PST

I don't imagine it will stay up long, and I didn't write it, but commenter Raebo on this story quickly nails the fundamental problem with Red Redford:The big problem with Ms Redford is that she is acting more like a mother hen than a Premier.She can't seem to separate her "personal" likes and dislikes from public policy.She says she only has maybe one drink when out for dinner, so she writes that

Vulcans are perverts

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:57:36 PST

Navigating the chubby chicks of Alberta

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:03:42 PST

A handy little chart showing where the Alberta fatties are located (the regular Highway 2 is in blue, the 2A side jaunts are in red). You're welcome, black guys.

From #occupycalgary to #occupyanametag

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:10:45 PST

Occupy Calgary has disbanded following a successful court injunction last week, but they did leave a freestanding piece of public art (in the most generous of senses) behind. The City of Calgary will temporarily put the piece into storage and contact the artist. If it is displayed somewhere, it will need to be treated so that the bare metal isn't exposed to the elements common in Calgary like

New (almost) record breaking black holes discovered

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:56:55 PST

Scientists have discovered, at the centre of galaxies NGC 4889 and NGC 3842, supermassive black holes. 21 billion suns of mass in the former, about 10 billion in the latter.These results are more than just cool and record-setting. Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope over the years have shown that such monster black holes seem to inhabit the centers of all galaxies — the bigger the galaxy

11/11/11 11:11:11

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:31:43 PST

The Onion jumps the shark

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:39:47 PDT

Did Edmonton Oilers rookie Ryan Nugent-Hopkins score a hat trick on October 15th 2011?

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:27:51 PDT

Last night the Oilers lost (surprised?) to the Canucks, 4-3. However, that score flatters the Oilers as Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (RNH to some, heretofore referred to as "The Nuge 2.0") scored all three goals, reminiscent of Doug Weight's playoff heroics in a 5-3 Oilers loss years ago.Or...did he? (The Nuge 2.0, I mean, not Doug Weight).You can watch all three goals in review on YouTube here. At the

#occupymontreal

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:12:05 PDT

This protester at Occupy Montreal shows the expert math skills that make these protesters so imminently employable:

#occupycalgary

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:45:40 PDT

So far today I've had grand sport on Twitter ripping on the idiots at these Occupy events and their foolish signs. For some reason, Calgary's twitpic'ers didn't do much, so I had to grab a couple from the CBC website.Top Canadian CEOs apparently make more than 4000 or so minimum wage lackeys combined. Forgetting the obvious fact that they are (by definition) worth more than 4000 or so minimum

The PC Leadership results as communicated by iphone

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:47:20 PDT

Alberta's newest left-wing extremist darling is now running the joint

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:42:24 PDT

Ed Stelmach, who when he took office quickly became Alberta's most left-wing Premier in history, stepped down earlier this year.Today, Alison "Red" Redford defeated "Red" Gary Mar. As you may have guessed, either of these candidates would have, upon taking office, become Alberta's most left-wing Premier in history.Winner? The chick.Bonus notes: In retrospect you could guess who won by asking

In a season of change, it's good to have something constant and familiar

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:43:42 PDT

Well, it's that time of year again: University and primary schools have started back up, the leaves are changing colours, I'm being invited to about 6 different farms each weekend to 'help with the harvest' (ie. lift heavy things), birds are flying south, and Third Edge of the Sword brings forth our semi-annual joke:I thought the sodomist pride parade was held in June.

Upside down world

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:43:57 PDT

Here's a screenshot from Google Maps (click to view full-size):If you look at the bottom (it's also true of the top), when the 90th latitudinal parallel is reached the world just stops. Yet you can see that South America starts repeating: scroll east or west on Google Maps and the program shows you that the world indeed keeps going. But not so much north-south.Shouldn't the south pole continue

Raj Sherman: the Alberta Liberals' new drinking leader?

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:12:19 PDT

Facebook comment today by "Paul R. Welke" about new Alberta Liberal Embarrassment Leader Raj Sherman:I've heard credible rumours that he's about a seven on the one-to-Ralph scale.This is good news for me, as longtime blog readers are aware, I'm brutally in favour of alcoholic Premiers. It means fewer horrible alcohol-related laws like we saw under the Sober Stelmach Regime.Bonus comment from

30th Edmonton Fringe Festival: Day One

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:20:16 PDT

Little Room: This intense one-man show, starring and written by Jon Lachlan Stewart, is a great introductory play to anybody wanting to know why you bother dealing with the Fringe Festival. Not surprisingly its a few years old now, as it harkens back to the 'good old days' of the early 2000s Fringe. It has energy, a unique storytelling style, and emotional resonance as Johnny struggles with

Fringeopolis: the 2011 Edmonton International Fringe Festival

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:20:45 PDT

Well, the 2011 Fringe is already approaching its final weekend. And where the hell was I? Well, I fringed over the weekend but nothing since. Hey, I just came back from a big vacation, I'm not going into debt President Monkey-style or anything. I did see a couple-three shows already though, and there is talk that I'll be attending another one or two over the weekend. It's a slow fringe year, but

SteynOnHybrids

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:12:28 PDT

Er, people, not vehicles. From Mark Steyn's latest Happy Warrier column:From London’s Daily Mail: “Scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories.” You don’t say. Now why would they do that? Don’t worry, it’s all perfectly legit, the fruits of the 2008 Human Fertilisation Embryology Act. So some scientists have successfully fertilized animal eggs with

Twitter Lied to Me

noreply@blogger.com (Feynman and Coulter's Love Child) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:45:53 PDT

Chairman Mar? The reddest, most tax-spend-happy, of all the PC leadership candidates? What on earth does he have in common with Scott Hennig of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation? They both breathe oxygen?