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New: 1. The Forgotten Sister: Mary Bennet's Pride and Prejudice by Jennifer Paynter 2. Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost Wo...

How were multiple brothers with the same surname addressed? In the early 19th century (and probably some adjacent eras as well), the oldes...

The Ani DiFranco song 4th of July, which tells the story of a child she met while driving through Iowa, contains the following lyric: H...

Every once in a while, I see an article about how sitting is apparently terrible for our health, which makes me think about why and how it c...

I'm waiting to cross a street, and this guy pushing a baby in a stroller is waiting next to me. I can't tell how old the baby is - I...

Someone, at some point in human history, was the first person to clean.  Someone was the first person to discover that water washes dirt off...

17. If you do something assholic out of ignorance, you have to read a book or article or watch a movie or otherwise consume a piece of media...

Some streets (usually small side streets) have a sidewalk on only one side of the street. There should be a rule that, in cases where they...

New: 1. Devoted in Death 2. Wonderment in Death 3. Brotherhood in Death 4. For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice t...

Sometimes the celebrities I follow on Twitter get people telling them to shut up about politics and stick to entertainment. This is someth...

Mailing a package in a Canada Post mailbox Those red Canada Post mailboxes you see on the sidewalks have a small silver flap into whi...

I know this has already been thoroughly commented on in many, many places, but I feel the need to post it here for the record: The CBC...

Glass door with vertical handle Many of the doors I pass through in my day-to-day life are made of glass with a single vertical handle o...

Some clever internet person once said atheism is a religion like not playing golf is a sport . As I've blogged about before , I'm ...

I watched a few episodes of Game of Thrones recently (don't think I'm going to continue - the gory parts visit me in my dreams - so ...

I was heading into my building just as two older gentlemen were heading out. Our respective paces would have had us arrive at the front door...

I previously blogged about how humour is like sex . Building on that: Some people, when they attempt to tell a joke and it doesn't g...

There's been a lot of media talk recently about how declining advertising revenues put various media outlets and websites at risk and ho...

My earbuds stop working every few months. First one ear goes, then both of them.  It seems to happen whether I buy them cheap or mid-range. ...