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"Half-robot Borg tries to sabotage a rocket flight." - from the Globe and Mail TV guide

I got on the subway, saw an empty seat, and sat down. This lady got on shortly after me, but there were no seats so she stood up in front o...

A number of political issues are often grouped together under the general category of "women's issues," but many of these issu...

This phrase, like the words courage and cowardice, is often misused as a commentary on virtue. People accuse others of taking the easy way ...

There are quite a few countries in the world with five-digit populations. Tuvalu has about 10,000, San Marino has about 20,000, Monaco has ...

Some people believe "If I can achieve success, anyone can," and if someone doesn't achieve success it's their own damn fau...

In courtroom dramas, two things always happen: 1. Everyone takes an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 2. ...

On TV, they have what appears to be a temporary studio set up in what appears to be a hotel room. They're sitting in hotel-looking chai...

I'm finding myself tempted to buy a purple jacket (for outerwear), but I'm hesitant. The colour looks really good on me, as deep je...

In the shower this morning, my brain started playing a barbershop arrangement of King Herod's Song from Jesus Christ Superstar ( lyrics ...

Why do y'all refer to your amendments by number only? It makes them very hard to learn and seriously hinders my Jeopardy game!

Last night I closed my windows overnight for the first time this fall. This morning, I notice airplanes sound more noticeable than usual. ...

Two sentences whose denotations are almost exactly the same, but whose connotations sound almost exactly opposite: 1. It's not like I h...

1. Three or four years ago, when the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" first entered common parlance, my first reaction was ...

And I thought the kids that trapped me in the elevator were bad. This kid (and the associated parenting) is much, much worse. Now I'm fa...

A Globe and Mail commentator insists that Kimveer Gill is not a victim. This happens whenever there's a big atrocious crime - someone cu...

As a translator, I spend a lot of my time looking at bilingual websites, as they make for excellent parallel texts. This being Canada, we h...

I find I'm getting way, way, way fewer Zonealarm alerts than usual. When I first set up this computer a year ago, I got so many alerts ...

There are people who think that making birth control available, will make people more likely to have sex. I think I have come up with a tho...