Posts Tagged: Group Projects
Group Project: Group Thought
Posted by on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 in - 11 comments
Yesterday Jay wrote the following about his own comment: • “David, my bad... • If the CPC wants to advertise on Pam Anderson's left nipple it's cool with me. (But it was a fun rant nonetheless.)” • My immediate reaction was that he would never have written that if we had been talking about a …
Group Project: The Problem With Making Up Stuff
Posted by on Tuesday, June 5, 2007 in - 30 comments
By focusing so completely on avoiding international law, by presuming what has gone before is inapplicable or wrong, it's tough not to mess things up: • “...the chief military defense lawyer here, Col. Dwight Sullivan of the Marines, said he viewed the decision as having broad impact because it …
Group Project: Giambi's Slip or Blurt
Posted by on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 in - 24 comments
Last night, listening to the ever excellent Tony Paige on WFAN at 3 am, I was listening to callers list any number of reasons to support or decry what Jason Giambi said last week and what should be done about it. It struck me that we've been though quite distinct waves of sports and drugs over the …
Group Project: What Would You Do?
Posted by on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 in - 33 comments
Being not a small person since I was little and perhaps having the look of someone whose soccer training might be transferrable to headbutting in a pinch, I have not had the need to deal with a moment like this since the horror that was the junior high locker room: • “Before I had a chance to …
Group Project: Is Google Evil Yet?
Posted by on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 in - 15 comments
I am as knee jerk as the next guy. I avoid buying Nike and got rid of anything with Eddie Bauer on it years ago. Heck, we were into a ban of French products in the early 70's when I was a kid - due to nuclear testing. But, like any one flipping one way or another according to how the wind blows, I …
Group Project: What If Kaiser Meant More Than A Pickle's Neighbour?
Posted by on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 in - 10 comments
Marvel Comics had a comic series in the 1970's called "What If..." or maybe it was "What If???" I actually have a box of comics within reach that likely has a copy but I am too lazy to reach out my arm to answer the punctuation question. Which goes to show I have my priorities and values right on …
Group Project: What Were We Like And What Are We Like Now?
Posted by on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 in - 15 comments
...and what are we becoming? I know I go on but this new report on the state of privacy and surveillance technologies in the UK reminded me of this one about blogging, especially this passage: • “...before the telegraph, for example, almost all ordinary people read entire newspapers and were …
Group Project: Best Leader
Posted by on Monday, March 5, 2007 in - 21 comments
I found myself wondering again this weekend how it was that Mr. Dion was now the Leader of the Opposition. Maybe it was the news he was going on a nation wide tour and my wonder at what exactly that might do for us all as a nation. I have nothing particular against the man except he appears to be …
GP:¹ The US State Of The Union Speech
Posted by on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 in - 24 comments
We don't have these. We have the Speech from the Throne. We get to be told, not have an explanation given to us. Ours are never remembered as we know to expect them to be diverted from, losing their value faster than an new car driven off the lot. • But we Canadians watch these things southern …
Pick Your Week's Group Project
Posted by on Monday, January 22, 2007 in - 3 comments
How about this? How about on Mondays I post three choices of the Tuesday Group Project topic? • Consider the environment as a national issue. For me this just isn't a pull and, given the obvious rehashing of ideas, not one that should excite the imagination. Can a Federal election actually be … read more »
