Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Introducing The Sunday Journalist  C. Mark Cooper As you can tell - there wasn't much going on in 2022 for my Blogging. I did (and still do) most of my posting on Facebook. Both  Quotes of the day  and  Column of the day  are part of what I have been doing as a hobbyist communication and content creation blogger. But I have been spending more time reading and cross-posting than creating. Passing on other people's writing rather than creating my own. While it gave me a more significant following and audience than posting in the  Cole's Notes   Blog, I was doing it the lazy way by using my iPhone to curate and post on Twitter and Facebook. I was spending more time browsing Facebook and Quora than doing any writing for myself.  So today - I'm starting to revise this Blog and my online profiles to reflect my new Pen name. Well, back in 2020 - I was working two jobs unrelated to journalism and had reached the age where I look back on what I'm doing wit...

Coleman , Last week, there was a story in the news that, at first glance, may seem unrelated to Alberta's fight for fairness. However, when we dug into the details, we realized that it could have major implications for our province and our relationship with Ottawa. On the last day of May, British Columbia Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Sheila Malcolmson, and her federal equivalent, Carolyn Bennett, held a joint press conference in Vancouver to announce that the federal government would be giving the British Columbia government an exemption from the enforcement of Canada's federal drug policy. This is an exemption that the British Columbia government has been pushing for, for quite some time, and means that in British Columbia, it will no longer be a criminal offence for Canadians over the age of 18 to possess up to a cumulative 2.5 grams of opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA. Now, whatever your opinion on t...

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 Well - that was a bit of a break. I'm getting back into routine of things now, and found my blog has been sadly neglected.  This is a test post to shake the dust out of the software and get things moving again.

Cole's Note from The Sunday Journalist I realized that in 2020 and 2021 where madness reigned in the Journalism profession - and in the governments in Canada so I stopped blogging as the Sunday Journalist. As a result - I turned to lurk on Social media - mainly watching the Covid Theatre and reading the non-mainstream media.  While there I ran across a unique columnist/blogger and author - thezman.  So for my first post for 2022 - I'm reproducing what I think is his best post of the year.  If you agree - buy him a beer.  

 Dilbert of the Day Einstein's Chalkboard "The three rules of work - out of clutter, find simplicity From discord,  find harmony  In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity" - Albert Einstein.   “Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." -- Albert Einstein       Some Thinking on Stuff. Right now - I'm in the middle of reviewing and updating all my computers. All my Windows-based machines are in the process of being reviewed and updated to the 20H1 versions where applicable and checking to see if they are going to be able to be updated to the new Windows 11. I'm decluttering my IT life as well. Or trying to. Right now - I have four Laptop computers and one desktop PC, which are running Windows 10, which were the iStudio101 assets for doing my consulting on IT. Since the Lockdowns started taking effect in late 2019, my consulting business moved to my living room and died. My main IT work was helping folks get their PCs up and ...

Annus horribilis Annus horribilis is a Latin phrase, meaning "horrible year". It is complementary to annus mirabilis, which means "wonderful year". As usual, this cartoon nails it. My year has been like this. Stuck in March of 2020 under lockdown due to hygiene socialism. The year 2020 was when all levels of government, politicians, media, academics, companies and social media went insane. Future historians will shake their heads at the madness that came from the fall of Journalism. It has been replaced with the dumpster fire of the "Woke revolution" sensitivity and the Cancel Culture of the Internet Mob.  The loss of credibility of all levels of government and mainstream media and the outright suppression of opposing viewpoints have been the hallmarks of this past Annus Horribilis. On the plus side - I finally got the first flu shot on May 4 - and now I’m scheduled for the second on August 4 - yeah.  I probably get a bunch of anti-vaxxers calling me an id...