With two states voting to approve recreational use of marijuana, Miss Iowa gets asked if this is the right direction for the country?
Miss Iowa (her name, by the way, is Mariah Carey) finished fifth.
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Must-watch video: Miss Iowa gets asked about marijuana use
Three outstanding “End of the World” front pages
You have to be an R.E.M. fan and a fan of trashy tabloids to get the next (fake) front page: Read more…
To mark Keleki’s closing, what’s your favourite local eatery?
The Winnipeg Sun reports that, after 81 years business, the popular eatery Keleki’s is set to close.
Which prompted me to wonder: What are places to eat that are most cherished in other communities around the country? Read more…
Pete, Roger: Tho I love your work, I won’t be at your concert next week
DULUTH, Ga. – Roger Daltrey, left, and Pete Townshend, perform as The Who on Nov. 5, 2012. (AFP/Rick Diamond)
In a few days, The Who will play a concert at ScotiaBank Place, the hockey arena where the Ottawa Senators play and which is a five-minute drive from my home.
Now, my all-time favourite band on most days of the week is The Clash. But on those days of the week when it is not The Clash, my favourite band is The Who. And as The Clash is no longer touring, this tour by The Who is about my only chance to see my other favourite band of all time in live performance.
But I’m not going.
And here’s why. Read more…
John Cleese has advice for politicians (and all of us) on thinking creatively
Fascinating lecture on creativity from John Cleese of Monty Python fame…
To be at our most efficient, we need to be able to switch backwards and forward between [open and closed] modes [of thinking]. But — here’s the problem — we too often get stuck in the closed mode. Under the pressures which are all too familiar to us, we tend to maintain tunnel vision at times when we really need to step back and contemplate the wider view.
This is particularly true, for example, of politicians. The main complaint about them from their nonpolitical colleagues is that they’ve become so addicted to the adrenaline that they get from reacting to events on an hour-by-hour basis that they almost completely lose the desire or the ability to ponder problems in the open mode.
via John Cleese on the 5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative | Brain Pickings.
