This is really weird, but it turns out that if you give poor people more money, their lives tend to improve. Bewilderingly, when they have the means to afford things like adequate housing, good clothes and decent food, they become healthier, more confident and in some cases, more employable. Like what the hell? Everybody knows …
Monthly Archives: March 2020
For What It’s Worth, The Tab Benoit Edition
Since we’re talking about cool covers of classic songs, here’s Tab Benoit making For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield into quite the mighty blues tune. Thank you Spotify for randomly throwing this one at me one afternoon. You’re some of the best money I spend each month.
Purple Rain, The Dwight Yoakam Edition
I had sort of forgotten about this until the other day when my brother asked me if I’d ever heard it. I thought I had shared it with him a couple years back when I found it, but I guess not. I also thought I had put it here somewhere, but it looks like I …
A-Few-More-Bucks-A-Beer
In some ways, Doug Ford’s buck-a-beer is kind of like unicorns or Bigfoot. There are those who swear it exists in the wild, but most of us have never seen one and we’re pretty sure that those other people might be crazy. And if those other people want to prove to the rest of us …
A Little Thing I Would Love For Apple To Fix
If I make a call and then either hold the phone away from me or set it down thus clearly indicating that I wish to activate the speakerphone, why must the damn thing revert to the earpiece when the person on the other end picks up? Is there a practical reason why iPhones do this? …
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Amish Paradise, The That Sounds Like Neither Weird Al Nor Coolio Edition
Well, this is certainly different. Not sure what I think of it just yet, although changing the music to parody songs so they sound damn near unrecognizable is an interesting concept. There are four more covers like this on an EP called “You Can’t Call Me Al”, if you think this might be your thing.
A Plate To Throw
Ontario to temporarily distribute ‘old’ licence plates while new ones are fixed This is good, but what I don’t understand is why they’re only going to start handing out their stock of old ones on March 5th instead of doing it immediately once they knew there was going to need to be a recall. Giving …