impudent strumpet

I vaguely remember reading, either in a text I was translating several years ago or in my research for this text, that part of the reason wh...

There's a "write a letter to your 13-year-old self" trend going around the blogosphere. I recently wrote a letter to my 18-ye...

Train of thought arose from this story , where a judge threw out a summons that a police officer issued to a guy wearing saggy pants. I firs...

They're about to introduce new drinking and driving restrictions for people aged 21 and under, where they must have a blood alcohol lev...

I blogged before about how amazon.ca is now using UPS for its shipping, apparently in addition to Canada Post. I find this horrendously in...

1. Why are people saying "affirmative action" all the sudden? The phrase "affirmative action" has been in headlines rec...

Some people want to ban burqas/niqabs because they think the wearers are being oppressed into wearing them, and they think banning the garme...

One of my biggest pet peeves is people who cannot see the point of view of a mindset that they themselves have had. For example, parents wh...

I'm not in a position to evaluate the test itself. It pings my bad idea radar, but I can't make any definitive statements without mo...

This post was inspired by this David Eddie column , where a woman who has been in a committed relationship for years finds herself thinking ...

This is not a proper medically approved method. This is a method that works for me. I'm inclined to freak out at the prospect of anyth...

"The police are just decent, hard-working people doing their very best under difficult conditions." When decent, hard-working poli...

This is a rerun straight from the braindump . As was I working on deconstructing and reconstructing it coherently, I realized this needs to ...

Dear Governments: Please give us food price controls! This week I was thrilled to buy my very first basket of Ontario peaches of the season!...

An assortment of sexy tunes to end off the week:

I've seen variations on this (clearly sarcastic) statement in many of the places where pictures/videos of G20 vandals are posted. What I...

My first impressions of the Senate came when I was a child (somewhere in the 9-12 age range) from overhearing the adults around me. It was ...

As I've blogged about before , my experience with the Senate (like my experience with the House of Commons) comes in one-sentence slices...

This post builds on ideas from my G20 braindump and occurred to me while reading this post from James Bow , but can be read without prerequ...