Category: Bad Mojo
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Why now
Why now? Why like this? You’ve had ample opportunity, and you’ve taken none of it. So you hid for a while behind the pseudonym, knowing only I would know who you were. Now you’re not hiding, and I wonder what’s changed with that, but only in passing. Go ahead and spit out your venom. Spew…
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The Devil, You Say
At dinner last night, we talked a little about a lot of things. I fear I did most of the chatting, but that should surprise no one. Your name came up, referentially, after the question of my involvement with a mutual friend. The truth of the matter is I think of you often, and am…
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Nomenclature
there are an awful lot of people marching and gathering together and trying to “take back the word ‘slut’”. They’re going on ‘slutwalks’ and they’re dressing like ‘sluts’. Why are they doing it? Because some dorkbrain of a cop managed to get quoted in the media as saying “if women wouldn’t dress like sluts, they…
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Another small truth
Is that when you *act* like a bigot, under the pretense of “trying to establish a fair playing field”, you become a bigot. I’m not talking about lampooning or being sarcastic or any of the other things we do at the expense of bigotry. This has just really been getting in my buttcrack lately (and…
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Case in Point
Anyone not from central Canada should probably really pay attention to this article about Prime Minister Harper’s latest cabinet shuffle. Contrary to popular belief, a cabinet shuffle actually has very little to do with office equipment and redesigning your floor plan. The cabinet shuffle itself is concerning, but of more interest at the moment is…