impudent strumpet

The past three years , I've come up with unconventional New Year's resolutions that have proven to be very useful and have had a l...

Scott Adams proposed a tax model where the rich support the poor . I've thought of a modification whereby businesses support the unempl...

The following is a quote from Jared Diamond's Guns, Germ, and Steel, on the subject of why and how China lost its technological advantag...

"Well done!" threshold I once read that if someone who's in jail is pregnant and goes into labour, they keep her shackled whi...

On the Things I Wasn't Expecting list: my new laptop doesn't have VGA output. And my existing monitor only has VGA input. I'd ...

For years, people have been telling me that your 30s are way better than your 20s. Here are some things I can do at 30 that I couldn't ...

From The Star : IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: This year, dealing with two different forces or situations helps you perfect the art of juggling....

I blogged before about how I find that smaller kindnesses are bigger than bigger kindnesses . In my own life and experience, in the way my ...

There are people who think that if things are good for some people, they should be made equally good for other people. And there are people ...

In one of the newly-built condo buildings in my neighbourhood, there's this gorgeous penthouse. Massive suite, south and east exposure,...

It seems the TTC has a $60 million surplus . If they aren't allowed to keep and reinvest the surplus (I've heard that it isn't, ...

Yesterday, my computer froze completely and I had to do a hard reboot. During the reboot, it entered power save (just after the Windows XP s...

Lately there's been an uptick in the number of people writing into advice columns to complain about having given a gift to someone or an...

When I was in elementary school, we'd have xmas carol singalongs. Whenever we sang Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, we'd always sing...

I was saddened to hear of the passing of CityTV's Mark Dailey at the too-young age of 57. Like everyone, I know him as The Voice from ...

Conventional wisdom is that Rob Ford's transit plan is focusing on Scarborough because of the Pan Am Games. But I just looked at a map ...

When I have to explain when to use "that" and when to use "which" to people who don't grok the rule, I've been u...

1. What exactly is an "Alice in Wonderland" attitude towards terrorism? One of the Wikileaks memos said Canada has an "Alic...

There's a rumour flying around that Rob Ford is going to completely kill Transit City . Like tomorrow. Despite the fact that $137 mill...