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Does it make you uncomfortable?

I once had my heart broken by a redhead. It was a season of madness, during the season of madness that steals through your life in your mid-twenties, if you’re fortunate; never if you’re not. The sort of madness that … Continue reading

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to be or not to be

First, go read this story about some Very Unpopular Decisions the Saskatoon school division has just made. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Now. It’s a pretty dumb idea. It’s dumb because, like the whole “we won’t fail your kid because it … Continue reading

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Eff Ar Ee Ee Dee Oh Em

I wish Ezra Levant would stick to writing stuff rather than flapping his gums. I never really realised how much I can’t stand that guy and his reductio ad absurdum arguments until today*. But this is a good thing! Because … Continue reading

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Sensitivity Training

Every year, hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in elementary, middle, and high schools, for specialists to try to teach children to be better humans. School is more than just learning your multiplication tables and parts of speech (and … Continue reading

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Posted in Bad Mojo, Children, education, Just Wrong, piss in your eye, Rants, Sad, When There's Weather | Tagged , , , , | 26 Comments

http://www.tera.ca

Imagine my surprise (and shame at not having known this before) to have learned that courts in Canada have been overturning decisions in which women have been charged with public indecency for being topless, since 1996! The website mentioned up … Continue reading

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And another thing

This article from CBC about an horrific sexual assault perpetrated by someone who broke in to the woman’s home while she was napping on the couch is terrible. But there’s something I don’t like about it, aside from the nature … Continue reading

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Smarten up

If I could take you by the ear and drag you around the block a few times, I would.  No, not YOU. YOU’RE awesome. I mean that twit. The twit who insists on driving in the bike lane. You see, … Continue reading

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It sounds counterintuitive

*If you don’t want to read religious stuff, go ahead and skip to the last line. We should not only give thanks for the Good Things we experience and receive; we ought also to give thanks for adversity and hardship, … Continue reading

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I can’t believe I forgot to mention this

Neil Gaiman! One thing I forgot to mention last night as we were chatting in The Loft is that you’re my International Literary Boyfriend!! Can you imagine that I forgot that!? Pffft. It’s silly, is what it is. But after … Continue reading

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It Has Left a Lasting Impression

Mister Sexy said he would NOT wear tight-fitting shirts and talk in an Irish accent if I didn’t read John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany . It’s a decision I do not regret. And for more reasons than seeing Mister Sexy … Continue reading

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