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Vuvuzelas Everywhere

By this point most Americans have once again stopped pretending to be interested in soccer, and those who are still pretending will likely stop doing so in the next couple of weeks when the World Cup is over once and for all.  For those who think that this, this could be the time that America [...]

Different Playbooks

I suppose I should count my blessings that my long vacation from teaching coincides with the congressional recesses, as it means that I can give myself a bit of a break from politics at the same time as I take a break from my primary employment. However, as has been made clear from today’s developments [...]

Fill in the blank

Depending on the situation and circumstances, I can be for or against convenience. As an example, I buy nearly all of my bread from the supermarket, but when I decide to make homemade bread you’ll never find me anywhere near a bread machine, or even an electric mixer for that matter. I do all of [...]

Things that make you puke

I’d like to post a bit of a follow-up to a post earlier this month about a television commercial about workplace safety on Canadian television that features incredibly graphic images of a woman with her skin peeling off as the result of accidentally throwing hot oil all over herself. First of all, if you didn’t [...]

Will they listen now?

Reforms urged after MySpace hoax’s victim kills herself (AP via pantagraph.com) I’ve been following this story as it’s been developing for the past few days. This doesn’t exactly follow the pattern of behaviour I’ve been so interested in tracking recently, since the person who created the fake "Josh" account on MySpace was an adult (and [...]