Issues and Current Events

How do you react when someone compliments you? Do you make a joke out of it? Do you blush and stammer and feel awkward? Do you thank them? Or do you just feel they are telling you what you want to hear to get something out of you? It’s getting harder to give a sincere [...]

I think someone is going to come up with a scheme to bring blogs to email inboxes soon. It seems to be the next evolution in spamming to me. The content management side can’t be beat. But, it is still static. People have to come to you in order to be spammed. How disappointing. Of [...]

There are few things as old fashioned and traditional as a wedding. Even though couples add their own touches with poetry, sky diving and Halloween themes, a wedding is still something self indulgent which we do to celebrate a life change. It isn’t actually necessary, only signing the paperwork for the government is really necessary. [...]

As kids, my sister used to watch horror, along with my brother. They’d get up late at night and turn the TV on with the volume low so my Mother wouldn’t wake up and catch them. My sister would have nightmares afterwards. As an adult, after she was nearly killed by a man who raped [...]

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Yet again I have escaped death! How you may wonder… did I dive with sharks or something adventureous like that. Why no, I crossed the street, with the lights at a well marked pedestrian crosswalk on a clear day. I was even wearing a red coat, almost a bonus stop sign for anyone tempted to [...]

I let him in because I knew a guy was coming to look at the furnace, sometime between 10 and 12:00am. He was there to look at the furnace and let the landlord (my brother) know if we needed a new one or could refurbish the old one. Maybe air conditioning too. So, I let [...]

On CBC News there is a report about networks who want cable and satelite companies to pay a subscription for showing their content. Of course, consumers can be sure this will filter down and we will be paying, not the cable or satelite companies. I think this should mean we will no longer be plagued [...]