Foul Mouthed Maven
A 200 year old female senator is in the headlines for telling aid groups to “shut the f*** up!” concerning their complaints on the Harper government’s foreign policy concerning abortion. …
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Politics
Tastes Like Chicken
A city councillor in London wants to make it legal to raise chickens in residential back yards. …
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Snacking Emergency
It’s not my proudest memory. Back when I was working at CKNX radio in Wingham management brought in a smoking ban. I smoked then. I smoked when I wasn’t even actually smoking, that’s how devoted I was to the habit. I protested the ban saying it would lead to – and this is embarrassing – dizzy spells and feeling ill because I wasn’t getting my regular infusion of nicotine. I wish I was kidding. That was my defence and I lost, rightly. (My apologies to then-GM Al Skelton for the time I wasted being such an idiot!) …
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Something to Think About
Discussing religion is always dicey.  The fact is, no one can really, truly answer a lot of important questions about the universe and our role in it. But many people are unable to acknowledge that and some see any discussion of religion as an attack on it. …
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Tax Credit Wrinkle and Other Matters
Until the speech from the throne last week I wasn’t aware that getting cosmetic enhancements like Botox and liposuction could become tax write-offs. …
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Baby Blues
There was a Family Day rally at Queen’s Park. About 60 couples protested the fact that OHIP doesn’t cover invitro fertilization for those who can’t conceive. The procedure goes for about $10,000. per treatment and sometimes several rounds are needed.  For many couples, it doesn’t even work.  …
The Game of Sex
You can’t say the Middlesex-London Health Unit is shying away from educating teens about sex. …
Bad Advice
I guess members of a US federal task force do not have breasts. Their family members do not have breasts and neither does anyone else they care about. …
IF it is True…..
….it could be the karma that I have long believed would come back and bite former Attorney General Michael Bryant in the butt. …
A Silly Sorry
Federal Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt was forced, some say by the Prime Minister’s Office, to say she was sorry for calling the scarcity of medical isotopes a “sexy” situation for her ministry. What a load of hooey. I don’t think she had anything to apologize for. …
Things That Don’t Make Sense To Me
The California Supreme Court upheld a ban on gay marriage. …
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Please Fence Me In
The broken fence is fixed but only grudgingly so. …
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Bonus Madness
There’s something about some people who rise through the ranks of their profession to the very top, where their word is law and their decisions have a direct impact on the lives of those on lower rungs of the ladder. Some people forget what it was like to be in the rank and file. …
Educating Educators
Quite some time ago I contributed a chapter to a University textbook. It’s now official! The book almost exists! …
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Obama’s Big Day
Barack Obama will be sworn in as US President today. And I’m a little nervous about it. …
The Words of Obama
When will special interest groups ever learn? You can’t change the world by yelling louder or staging stunts that don’t appeal to the masses. …
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