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1. My very least favourite Canadian tradition is this habit of every Canada Day doing a study that scolds me for not knowing stuff about Ca...

I previously blogged about the concept of ad-hominem self-righteousness. It occured to me today that the real problem is that people who pra...

Have you ever looked at someone and thought "Wow, I don't want to be like that!" and then that desire not to be like that info...

A long time ago, I proposed that we should expect the impossible from our political leaders. I now have an analogy. Imagine you have a heal...

1. If you get an answer right and no one on TV gets it right, take a drink. 2. If you get an answer right and no one else you're playi...

I've started my Harry Potter reread, which means that this blog is now a spoiler zone for all HP up to the end of book 6. Be warned. 1....

1. The music: "I'd Be Good For You" from Evita. The images: a montage of photos from the courtship of a newlywed couple who ...

The premise: The French taunting scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail was really just a massive miscommunication. The execution: Firs...

This morning on the radio, they mentioned that they're asking us to minimize electricity usage between noon and 8pm. So I waited until ...

I got an Outstanding on my Grade 3 WOMBAT!

Wente does it again. "Most of the policy-makers knew next to nothing about the villages where 90 per cent of the Afghan population live...

People in many parts of the world carry things on their heads. So why doesn't anyone do this in Toronto? We have immigrants from all ov...

The man behind me in line put a bunch of things on the conveyer belt, including a pile of women's fashion magazines. I was unintentiona...

As Canada's very own no-fly list goes into effect, I'm glad my name isn't Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad. For that matter, I...

On TNG, a crewmember is kissing Data. This makes me wonder if Data is warm-blooded or cold-blooded. It would be weird to kiss someone who ...

There is a bit of a debate in the letters to the editor page of the Star about whether Kids Today are getting too much homework, especially ...

This book sets out a way to cut our carbon emissions by 90% by 2030 without sending us all back to the stone age. The science seems sound t...

I'm surprised to see such big missing information in an article in the Star. But I've read through the article twice and still can...

The problem with Youtube links is that the URLs themselves aren't descriptive, and this is compounded by the fact that people tend to sh...