impudent strumpet

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

Monday, July 31, 2006

Interesting demographic phenomenon

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With the baby boomer population reaching retirement age, we're going to have an interesting phenomenon in the next 10 years or so: a ge...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

One more point about gym class

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An addendum to my explanation of why gym class should not be mandatory: Think of all the things you were forced to do when you were a kid, b...
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Saturday, July 29, 2006

Dual citizenship: points to keep in mind

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With the recent evacuation of Canadian citizens from Lebanon, there has been some debate on Canada's policies on dual citizenship. Coinc...

Free advice

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It's 1:00 a.m., I'm flossing my teeth, and my brain suddenly gives me one sentence that sums up a whole lot of the important things ...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Formula for when teachers can consider former students to be adults

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Cary Tennis had a letter from a teacher who had an affair with a former student, who was legally an adult at the time. This triggered an i...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

How to improve physical fitness among students who don't like phys. ed.

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It seems the media's on about phys. ed. again, this time fretting over the fact that fewer high school students are taking phys. ed. Th...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Worst phrasing ever!

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A brief description of atrocities in Congo, in a mostly-unrelated article: ...husbands were forced to watch as their wives and daughters wer...
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Sunday, July 23, 2006

Community

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For those of you who aren't familiar with Toronto, Eglinton Ave. is a busy street. In five minutes of walking along Eg in the tail end o...
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Things They Should Invent: "How to call the doctor" lessons

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I have no idea how to go about calling my family doctor. I don't know how much information I'm supposed to give to the receptionist...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

I don't blame the evacuees for complaining

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Some of the people who were evacuated from Lebanon complained about how the evacuation was carried out. Some other people have said that th...

Why introverts find social interaction draining

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When I was googling information on introversion recently, I found a number of comments from extroverts who simply could not fathom how intro...
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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Embryo adoption disgusts me

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People should not be allowed to adopt embryos until there are no children waiting to be adopted. Why? Because embryos can wait. They'...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Problem

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The good: Health Canada just approved the HPV vaccine The bad: It's only approved for women up to the age of 26, and it's administ...

Musings

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Have you ever had someone who you didn't know very well, but really admired? Like everything they did seemed so incredibly cool, and yo...
Monday, July 17, 2006

The greatest luxury ever

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The air in my apartment is cool. I have no idea what the temperature is in here because I have the least accurate thermostat ever, but it i...
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Sunday, July 16, 2006

New Rule

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If you say "It's a privilege, not a right," about something that actually is a legal right, you forfeit that right during the ...

Why I don't talk to strangers

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The Globe and Mail's David MacFarlane laments the fact that people in Toronto do not engage with strangers. Well, Mr. MacFarlane, I can...
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Saturday, July 15, 2006

Clever multimedia crossover thingy of the moment

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The plot in this week's Luann (start here and read forward) is playing out in parallel on MySpace - with audience participation!
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Friday, July 14, 2006

Guardian Angels

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I don't trust the Guardian Angels. I've been trying for several days to articulate why, but I'm afraid I can't get any mor...
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