Are you not familar with Bizarro world ? Perhaps you should watch the clip I posted.
We always complain about ‘the usuals’ at the CBC. The offenders of boring shows that rely on American B-list celebrities or the no-talent hacks that make it on the air and stay there, because the CBC is like a girlfriend that doesn’t want to admit it’s over.
What if things were different I ask myself (and maybe you do too).  Would things really be that much better in Bizarro World ?
Bizarro World At The CBC
Jian Ghomeshi –  |
Bizarro Jian –  |
George –  |
Bizarro George –  |
The CBC building –  |
Bizarro CBC –  Â |
S & C-  |
Bizarro S & CÂ –  |
Logo –  |
Bizarro Logo -Â  |
Rick Mercer –  |
Bizarro Rick –  |
Don Cherry –  |
Bizarro Don –  |
Kevin O’Leary –  |
Bizarro Kevin –  |
Wendy Mesley –  |
Bizarro Wendy-  |
Peter –  |
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                  Kirstine – 
Bizarro Kirstine – 
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I guess in Bizzarro World this particular blog would make some kind of sense.
How to Train the Aging Brain
By BARBARA STRAUCH
Published: December 29, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/education/edlife/03adult-t.html?hp
Educators say that, for adults, one way to nudge neurons in the right direction is to challenge the very assumptions they have worked so hard to accumulate while young. With a brain already full of well-connected pathways, adult learners should ’œjiggle their synapses a bit’ by confronting thoughts that are contrary to their own, says Dr. Taylor, who is 66.
Teaching new facts should not be the focus of adult education, she says. Instead, continued brain development and a richer form of learning may require that you ’œbump up against people and ideas’ that are different. In a history class, that might mean reading multiple viewpoints, and then prying open brain networks by reflecting on how what was learned has changed your view of the world.
’œThere’™s a place for information,’ Dr. Taylor says. ’œWe need to know stuff. But we need to move beyond that and challenge our perception of the world. If you always hang around with those you agree with and read things that agree with what you already know, you’™re not going to wrestle with your established brain connections.’
Such stretching is exactly what scientists say best keeps a brain in tune: get out of the comfort zone to push and nourish your brain. Do anything from learning a foreign language to taking a different route to work.
’œAs adults we have these well-trodden paths in our synapses,’ Dr. Taylor says. ’œWe have to crack the cognitive egg and scramble it up. And if you learn something this way, when you think of it again you’™ll have an overlay of complexity you didn’™t have before ’” and help your brain keep developing as well.’
Jack Mezirow, a professor emeritus at Columbia Teachers College, has proposed that adults learn best if presented with what he calls a ’œdisorienting dilemma,’ or something that ’œhelps you critically reflect on the assumptions you’™ve acquired.’
Dr. Mezirow developed this concept 30 years ago after he studied women who had gone back to school. The women took this bold step only after having many conversations that helped them ’œchallenge their own ingrained perceptions of that time when women could not do what men could do.’
Such new discovery, Dr. Mezirow says, is the ’œessential thing in adult learning.’
’œAs adults we have all those brain pathways built up, and we need to look at our insights critically,’ he says. ’œThis is the best way for adults to learn. And if we do it, we can remain sharp.’
I was hoping that people would help me with new Bizarro’s or discuss why my Bizarro’s work or don’t work !
Rick tells jokes?
The jokes are somewhere in between the laugh track……
Bizarro Rick Mercer should be Liberace.
Anonymous
Why so hung up about gays? That’s all you ever go on about? Get some good thearapy and a support system that won’t laugh when you come out of the closet.
Wait, but you’re Anonymous. Are you talking to yourself or Anonymous.
I don’t laugh when Rick Mercer tells jokes…should I be Rick’s “support system” when he comes out of the closet?
Steven and Chris, Rick, George, Jian…..why does the CBC only hire masculine men?
Wendy would be Bowie? Don’t tell Jian….ouch!
Shouldn’t a Bizarro Rick Mercer be a straight, funny, black woman like Wanda Sykes?
Wanda Sykes is openly gay.
It makes more sense that way since a carpet muncher would be the opposite of a pole smoker like Rick.
roll up the carpet and get me a light
Thanks for pointing out how male dominated the CBC is! (At least Bizarro world doesn’t take itself so seriously.)
Actually, it would be funnier if it said:
Bizzarro PoonGirl
and then there was a picture of Tod underneath.
Hahahaha!
Bizarro PoonGirl
It was supposed to have a Picture of Jayne Eastwood, but I guess that is not allowed.