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New:   1. When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson 2. The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell   Reread:   1. Indulgence ...

Recently in the news: a proposal to tax the childless in order to incentivize people to have children .    That will never work.   Here ar...

New:  1. The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson 2. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Jen Gunter Rerea...

As I've mentioned before, I routinely use plastic grocery bags as garbage bags. However, as I've been streamlining my shopping durin...

The other day I saw someone tweet that cis Gen Xers need to talk more about how homophobic society in general was in the 80s and 90s. So my ...

I was talking to my doctor about the risk assessment of getting dental care (given that I'd need to remove my mask to do so), and he sai...

In 2009, City of Toronto workers, including garbage collectors, went on strike because the employer was trying to take away their sick days ...

New:   1. The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion by Matt Whyman 2. Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men...

With reproductive health in the news lately, I'm seeing a lot of people diligently endeavouring to make their statements about bodies an...

In my work life, MVP of all computer tools since my head injury is the Read Aloud function in Word. (Similar functions exist in other softwa...

Recently in the news: a plan to bring back Grade 13 .   We had Grade 13 (then called OAC, which stood for Ontario Academic Credit) when I wa...

New:   1. Nighttown by Timothy Hallinan 2.  Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland by ...

Five years ago, I blogged about the delight of having new Fluevogs and new Star Trek . This year, Fluevog is making the uniform boots for St...

1. Remove all names.     Lately, I've been seeing people talk about expanding the Sunshine List to include all public servants at all pa...

New:  1. Lightfall: The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert 2. Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb 3. she walks for days inside a thousand eye...

We live in a complex and imperfect world. This sometimes results in having complex and imperfect thoughts, feelings and opinions that aren...

This post is a review of a bra. The content contains non-sexual descriptions of breasts, and the links contain catalogue-style photos of bra...

New:   1. Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson 2. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead  3. Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson 4. The Sc...

(I know I already posted this on 2/2/22, but today is even twoier and it's a Tuesday!)