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New: 1. Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb 2. North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea by Andrei Lankov 3. The Orenda by Joseph...

A piece of conventional wisdom I've been hearing ever since I was a child that higher marginal income tax rates for higher tax brackets ...

On his first day as mayor, Rob Ford came into work early and killed Transit City. With all the other things that happened since then, I...

For the last couple of weeks, when I try to type a reply in Gmail, typing is really slow.  The letters are appearing at about half the speed...

My favourite mascara is Rimmel Lash Accelerator.  I needed a new tube recently, and when I looked in the store I was surprised to discover t...

From a blog post by Scott Adams that's otherwise irrelevant to what I'm writing about here: For starters, I don't know any me...

I recently tried a different style of Jockey underwear (updated my comparison post accordingly), and when I looked at the tag to see the st...

Eric Idle retweeted me! Screenshot: The original link can be found here , but it's not as obvious from a direct link to the tweet i...

New: 1. Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story by Robyn Doolittle 2. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling) 3. The Unquiet (shor...

The other day, I had a day where I felt like I got nothing done.  I kept falling down the internet rabbit hole and getting caught up in gami...

From a New Yorker profile of Weird Al : With his parodic versions of hit songs, this somehow ageless fifty-four-year-old has become popul...

With Robin Williams's death in the news, we're seeing a reinvigoration of the notion that if you're feeling depressed or suicida...

Normally when someone commits suicide and the people left behind say "He had so much to live for," they mean normal regular every...

I have contacted Rob Ford in my capacity as a citizen and his capacity as mayor, and not only did he not address the issues I raised, he did...

I have an excellent productivity system when I'm working at home: after producing a certain quantity of work (the quantity depends on th...

This year I've seen quite a few young women, especially teenagers,wearing high-waisted pants with loose shirts tucked in.  This surprise...

New: 1. Love and Forgetting: A husband and wife's journey through dementia by Julie Macfie Sobol & Ken Sobol 2. The Little Prince...

There was recently a story in the news where a walk-in clinic doctor wouldn't prescribe birth control because he had moral objections t...

I'm looking for a word or phrase to express the concept of going straight to boldly/almost-but-not-quite aggressively asserting your rig...