impudent strumpet

Mentioned in passing in an article about the exciting adventure of Calgary zookeepers trying to rescue giraffes from a flood with hippos th...

From Carolyn Hax : Dear Carolyn: My second-grade son was upset yesterday because his best friend at school told him to toughen up (my...

I recently had a comment from a webmaster of a site I had linked to (who appears to check out as a real person) asking me to remove the link...

I'm pretty sure they're shooting a movie in my neighbourhood.  I've seen movie-ish pylons and trucks and trailers, and some ligh...

I previously blogged some ideas for improving the Senate, building on the advantages of the existing model by making it less partisan. Wh...

For as long as I can remember, I've been using zap2it.com as my primary TV guide.  They could be customized to my TV provider so they...

One of the things I like to test translation software with is formal French complimentary closings.  French uses long, gorgeous, wordy pas...

Today is the 10th anniversary of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Ontario! I've already blogged the best tribute I can write t...

In the Toronto Star's ethics column, a reader wrote in pondering the ethics of euthanizing a dog whose medical bills have become prohibi...

A group of houses on my street have been bought by a developer who plans to tear them down to build condos.  I have no objection to that - i...

They make paper shredders that shred paper to different sizes, and the smaller it shreds the paper, the more expensive the paper shredder.  ...

I'm currently reading a book in German (Der Knochenmann by Wolf Haas, published in English as The Bone Man - no spoilers please, I'm...

From The Ethicist : When I was in college, I’d sometimes write a single paper that would satisfy assignments in more than one course. Fo...

I previously blogged about how when I was a kid I thought I'd need to give up my very favourite stuffed toy just because none of the ad...

When Dr. Morgentaler was awarded the Order of Canada, I wrote : What astounds me about Dr. Morgentaler is he had no particular reason to ...

I have a series of posts called New Rules: Natural Consequences Edition , in which I propose natural consequences rules for various behaviou...

Sometimes, when I'm walking down the street, I look around and imagine what a person from the past would think of what I'm seeing an...

I was having some mousing-related ergonomic issues, so I went and bought the Evoluent Mouse-Friendly Keyboard . Ergonomically, it does the...

I previously came up with the idea that they should study how gender imbalance (in this case, resulting from heavy wartime losses of the ma...