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Canada sounds like a foreign country.

And it sounds so bleak.

Lying in bed this morning, I turned on the radio and got Canadian NPR instead of the regular kind.  Here is what’s in the news up North.

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Super Bowl Halftime Announcement

The Super Bowl Halftime performer is “Bad Bunny”.  I don’t know what that is.

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Culture Government

Pete Hegseth pushes around the big brass.

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military top brass to show up for a meeting at Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday.  The generals and admirals aren’t used to traveling on short notice for a reason they don’t understand.  They don’t mind issuing orders like that to the people under their command, but probably don’t like taking orders.

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The Secret Service doesn’t get much attention.

Building an audience on Youtube must be harder than it looks.  The U.S. Secret Service only has 36k subscribers.  Their videos are short, usually a minute or two, but interesting.

An Asian girl eating a bowl of soup can get 4 million subscribers on Youtube.

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Culture Government

Progressive politicians don’t really care about guns.

Federal Charges Filed Against Suspect in KXTV/ABC 10 Shooting

A guy shoots up a TV station in front of several witnesses, gets arrested, and is out on bail the next day. Nobody thinks that gun control is going to help.

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Disney does not want to be the ones that broke America

Disney stars Mark Ruffalo, Pedro Pascal speak out to support Jimmy Kimmel

Celebrities boycott Disney in response to ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel.  Perhaps we aren’t so different.

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Shoe0nHead talks about Charlie Kirk

I’ve been watching Shoe0nHead videos for five or six years.  She only puts out a video every month or so, but she is smart, interesting and has a completely different perspective.  She’s got to be good to post a video that infrequently, and still have 2 million subscribers.

I am disengaged from popular culture, so there is no way that I’ve got the time or patience to participate in internet culture.  She is a good way to learn what the cool kids on social media are talking about.  It’s almost like listening to a good story teller from another country.  And she’s cute.

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Culture Music

A national anthem is just good marketing.

President Trump’s state visit to Windsor Castle reminded me that Wales gets screwed because they don’t have a national anthem anyone has heard of.  Some countries do a good job, so looked them up.

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Culture Government

Nobody does pomp like the British.

Nobody does a big show like England. 

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Culture Government

Fairview Park city council gets less radical.

Fairview Park city council president resigns after comments that showed him to be a cold-hearted bastard who isn’t disturbed by people being assassinated for disagreeing with him.

The story has a happy ending, so that’s nice.