impudent strumpet

There's been some debate recently here in Toronto about whether our city councillors should get a pay raise. On one hand, they already g...

Certain social conventions become detrimental once you start losing your faculties. For example, some people, if they need something, drop ...

Building on my last food incentives post , I'm defining "unhealthy food" to mean food where the percentage daily value of satu...

I'd say about half the time I call a business or office where an actual human answers the phone, I don't understand what they say wh...

I blogged recently about how various patriarchal cultures are operating suboptimally essentially as a result of the patriarchs' insecu...

Why do people eat unhealthily? Because it's cheaper, because it's easier, and/or because of personal taste. We can't do anythi...

I always advise fellow translators to use a more specific preposition than "regarding" (or synonyms thereof). I feel that "r...

Last week, I blogged about how my grandmother gave me strategies for tricking your friends into thinking you're drinking when you'r...

I've read in a number of places that one approach to improving school performance is to offer money to schools who improve, or offer the...

I realize it's insanely presumptuous for a socially awkward dork like me to even think about improving on Miss Manners, but I think I ha...

I've noticed an awful lot of people like to make sweeping declarative statements about which childcare choices are good or bad. But one...

Picture a small child taunting his friend, tongue sticking out, thumbs to temples, fingers waving, saying "Neener neener neee-ner!...

Last night, I somehow ended up watching a bunch of Springsteen videos on youtube. Then I had dream based on the Dancing in the Dark video ,...

Human Resources Minister Diane Finley has accused the Liberals of wanting to revive a national child-care program so that parents don’t have...

A recent study suggested that elders have more trouble identifying social gaffes than younger people do. What I'm wondering: does this ...

Just over a month ago, many people were complaining that the True Spirit of Christmas has been lost in a sea of rampant commercialism. Yeste...

My high school history teacher passed away recently. I think he was a good teacher, so while trying to think of something to write in his o...

In the dream I was having just before I woke up, I needed to exchange cell phone numbers with a strange man. I didn't like him, he didn...