Photo Memory of the Week
Music of the Week
Posted: 2022 Aug 13
Poetry of the Week
"And so it criticized each flower,
This supercilious seed;
Until it woke one summer hour,
And found itself a weed."
- Mildred Howells, The Different SeedWords of the Week
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Source: A.A. Milne
Posted: 2022 Aug 13
Tweet of the Week
Ontario provincial police say a truck "fully loaded with chickens" rolled over on the QEW this morning, blocking three westbound lanes. Early reports suggest not one chicken attempted to cross the road.
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) August 9, 2022
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"Of course it’s now, when we’re surrounded by silliness and weakness and self-obsession, that a man gets on stage and plunges a knife into Rushdie, plunges it into his liver, plunges it into his arm, plunges it into his eye. That is violence." @bariweiss https://www.commonsense.news/p/we-ignored-salman-rushdies-warning?r=exstm&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
“I can tell you the fed'l gov't & the prov'l gov't publicly seem at odds with each other but privately they work quite well together. What pisses me off is that public rhetoric is causing investor uncertainty in the int'l markets because they don’t trust Cda to get (stuff) done.”
David Staples: Are we Canazuela? Has Canada lost the capacity to pull off great national projects? #ableg #cdnpoli
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/david-staples-are-we-canazuela-has-canada-lost-the-capacity-to-pull-off-great-national-projects via @edmontonjournal1/3 Quick, who said this? “(C)itizens, you are all first of all equal among yourselves, and your rights take priority over those of the state.The collectivity is not the bearer of rights: it receives the rights it exercises from the citizens.”
If there are degrees of evil, this is the worst one: murdering small children. May Magdalena's memory be a blessing.
11 August 1942 | A transport of 559 Jews deported from #Westerbork in the German-occupied Netherlands arrived at #Auschwitz. After the selection 164 men & 131 women were registered.
The remaining 264 people were killed in a gas chamber, incl. a 2-year old Magdalena Dora Blau.
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