impudent strumpet

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Friday, September 30, 2005

Church politics again. Yawn

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So apparently the Catholic church is considering denying communion to politicians who support laws that are contrary to Church doctrine. (I ...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

One-upped by Dilbert

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I recently thought of a witty response to that most annoying of job interview questions: Q: What is your greatest weakness? A: I don't...
Monday, September 26, 2005

The Last Honest Man : Mordecai Richler: An Oral Biography by Michael Posner

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Whenever I read a biography of an author, I end up finding the author to be an unpleasant person - not the kind of person I'd want to kn...
Saturday, September 24, 2005

Bouchard Père & Fils Mâcon-Lugny Saint-Pierre

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I never understood what floral meant in wine descriptions until I tried this wine. It is extremely floral - smells almost like perfume, whic...

Attn: Sympatico users

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Any of the Sympatico users reading this currently having trouble retrieving email via Outlook? I'm trying to figure out if it's a p...
Thursday, September 22, 2005

Psycho-sociology experiment, anyone?

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I invented an experiment in the shower this morning. Now all I need is for someone with suitable knowledge to actually do it and write it u...
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Robert's Rock Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon

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I like this wine because it's less tannic than expected.  It has a bit of a smoky undertone to it.  While this is the exact same flavo...

Best. Invention. Ever!

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Where do I sign up? The only problem I can see is that you'd have to wear it all the time, which could get uncomfortable.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Open letter to Margaret Wente

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Dear Margaret Wente, In your column today, you wrote about the sexual habits of American teens. I'm not entirely sure why you decided ...
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Sunday, September 18, 2005

Thoughts arising from Bowling for Columbine

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I mean this seriously and totally non-judgementally: These people seem to think that they need guns to protect themselves. Who do they think...

Thought of the moment

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Suppose the messiah was born today, conceived through immaculate conception and born in a virgin birth. Suppose they then did a DNA test on ...

KWV Chenin Blanc

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I like this wine. It tastes like a little bit of everything - it goes down smooth, but also has some complexity. In the mouth it's a p...
Thursday, September 15, 2005

Life imitates parody

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The Onion, February 18, 2004 Press release, September 15, 2005
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Rules I would make if I were omnipotent

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1. Anyone who uses any sort of allusion to participation in a sex act as an insult or a negative adjective receives a lifetime ban from ple...
Tuesday, September 13, 2005

On religious arbitration

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The media's coverage of the Sharia law issue in particular and religious arbitration in general is a tragic failure of semantics. The re...
Sunday, September 11, 2005

Things I Don't Understand: anti-medical-testing sentiment

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Ontario recently increased the number of genetic tests that they do on newborn babies, but there are some people who are opposed to this. I...
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Friday, September 09, 2005

Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick

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I'm not quite sure what to make of this book. I'm not quite sure why it has the title that it does. Any assessment that I might ma...
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Thursday, September 08, 2005

Vendange Chardonnay

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This is one of those new tetrapak wines. I have to admit, I felt funny buying it. Like I was being all uber-cheap or something (although i...

Things They Should Invent: cliché carbon dating

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When was the last time a safe or a piano fell? When was the last time people regularly set pies out on windowsills to cool? When was the las...
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