impudent strumpet

I was very surprised to see that some people thought the word "pregnant" shouldn't be used in an elementary school yearbook f...

From Snopes, one of the accused Boston marathon bombers had apparently received welfare benefits while on a terrorist watch list I'm r...

From a Toronto Star article about solitary confinement (emphasis mine): The woman she saw that day looked humiliated and defeated, Pate...

The following is a quote from page 264 of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg.  As usual, any ty...

My mother's Loblaws has Macintosh apples, but mine doesn't.  This means, should my current source of Macs dry up, I may be able to f...

I'm very frustrated by the mixed messages I'm getting about laptop batteries. My recent computer troubles turned out to be due to ...

Mentioned in passing in an article about the 65th anniversary of Israel : Nor will many of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews participate in the...

Apparently many long-term care homes have private washrooms with a toilet and sink in the residents' rooms, but bathing facilities are i...

I recently had a disagreement over a word.  I thought that it was neutral, linguistically unmarked, and derived directly from the verb in qu...

Headline in the Globe and Mail: Corrections Canada seeks a single provider for prison chaplaincy services . Why is this even an option?  B...

From an article about digging the tunnel for the Eglinton LRT : The tunneling crews that built New York City’s subways and sewers aroun...

I was sitting curled up on the couch, reading by the light of the lamp on my end table.  I finished my chapter and got up to make dinner, pu...

In follow-up to my previous questions about routers , I ended up getting a Linksys N300 for no especially good reasons, and I discovered a f...

I was going to close out my Buying Happiness series by writing about how money buys resilience, but the fourth letter-writer in this Carolyn...

I've noticed a new thing on Google search results lately, called "Results for Similar Searches".  If it doesn't think my s...

The pinnacle of branding is when your brand is used as a generic, like kleenex or xerox or google. So let's leverage this and start us...

Google tracks click-throughs.  You can see this when you right-click on a link in search results.  Rather than the link of the target page, ...

I really wish Not Always Right had a comments section after reading this story , where a plot point is an apparent Australian post office ru...

One function I really like about Google Reader is that, when I'm signed in, the Google Reader icon on my Google toolbar turns green when...