impudent strumpet

I tend to learn about books/TV series/other creative works because I've seen it around, people are talking about it, it seems vaguely in...

When we talk about beauty standards - and, especially, when we talk about beauty standards for women (so much of the beauty standard discour...

EBay uses an automatic bidding system. Every bidder enters their maximum bid, and the system automatically places incremental bids on each b...

Sitting here watching the second wave of the pandemic spiral with those in power doing little to nothing, I find myself increasingly surpris...

I recently saw a random internet stranger say "If I had $[specific dollar amount] it would solve all my problems." If I were han...

We tend not to like to talk about class (in the socioeconomic sense) here in Canada. We tend to be more comfortable thinking of ourselves as...

The notwithstanding clause enables provincial and territorial legislatures to override Canadians' Charter rights and freedoms. This is...

From The Ethicist: I have a rental property, and the neighbors next door are extremely racist. We didn’t know this when we bought the ho...

One of the risks of going to a hospital is that you might pick up a hospital-acquired infection, like MRSA or C. Diff. At the root, there ...

The first panel of this The Knight Life comic: "Whenever gun nuts think their weapons will get taken away, they buy tons more!!...

A while back, this story circulated where a male employee and a female employee switched email signatures on their shared inbox: Working a...

When I was writing about the problem of sales commission, I realized that even with salespeople whose sole motivation was to help me find th...

Sometimes it can be logistically inconvenient to go to events alone. It can be a lot easier to go as part of a group, so you can hold each o...

I've been thinking for some time that debates between political candidates aren't particularly useful, because they don't reflec...

With the various US shootings in the news and a constant flow of information about how gun industry money is influencing US politics, my sho...

I was very surprised to hear that they're rebooting Are You Being Served? because that show is very much a product of its time and tota...

If you follow me on twitter, you know I've been getting irritated with the Toronto Public Library having only ebooks and no print copies...

When Robin Williams committed suicide, many people responded with the "Genie, you're free" scene from Aladdin. This response ...

Something I see from time to time in advice columns is a situation where one partner is ready to get married, and the other partner isn'...

I've blogged before about my displeasure with media coverage of Toronto elections.  Apart from the length problem (I still maintain the...