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Gossip

I’ve just learned how to gossip. I mean, not *just* now; in the last few months. I was never much for gossip when I was pupating, because I didn’t really get the point. I guess I still don’t…not *really*…I mean, … Continue reading

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It’s just a thing I don’t do

You know when the phone rings and you answer the phone and there’s nobody on the phone so you say ‘hello?’ and wait for someone to answer you on the phone, even though they rang you and should be waiting … Continue reading

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But I love him

I had a strange childhood. A wonderful upbringing, all things considered. My parents didn’t neglect me nearly as much as the parents in Mad Men neglected their children, which is probably a Good Thing (and explains rather a lot about … Continue reading

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It’s time

Yours Truly is just going to have to apologise now for pretty much everything that may or may not come out of her mouth or issue from her fingers in the next little while. You see, I’m planning to shiv … Continue reading

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I have been forcibly ungruntled.

Yours Truly discovered Tuesday, quite by accident, that her favourite (and only) family doctor is closing up shop to take on a new career in surgery. This is fabulous news for him, and poopifying news for Yours Truly. Our family … 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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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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Gender bias

So I’ve run into this a shocking number of times recently, and it’s really starting to piss me off. In all of the correspondence for football, and in much of the correspondence for hockey, people talk about “your son” this … Continue reading

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But what’s wrong with nipples?

Dude. The title is *totally* misleading. This post isn’t only about nipples *at all*. Etymologically, the word “pornography” means “one who writes about prostitutes”.  In modern translation, it means Naughty Naughty pictures. People are Very Upset about pornography. I think … Continue reading

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Welcome to Bass-Ackwards Canadian Policies

When I heard this on the news, I was shocked. I don’t know why I was shocked, because Harper’s Conservatives have rescinded support for women’s groups, gay rights, and Aboriginal education, to name a few of their more dough-brained decisions. … Continue reading

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