Archive for September, 2010


Little Girl Lost

In some ways I find it astonishing that it’s been 15 years, and in other ways it seems like decades. Fifteen years ago today, my daddy died. So much has happened in the years since, that it must be longer than a decade and a half. It must be 20, 25, 30 years! I’ve lived [...]

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Currently reading (girly edition)

I’ve been stuck in bed for the past three days, nursing a cold with bottles of green NyQuil and red wine. What doesn’t kill you will probably make you sleep for three days while having vivid dreams about lobsters, mining towns and Korean refugees. But I digress… In between epic naps, I’ve been reading. What [...]

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RICO Rossi

Warren Kinsella, who believes that Chinese people eat cats, has decided that another ethnic stereotype would be the way to go in his latest misadventure: The Rocco Rossi Campaign. Skippy sums it all up here. But here’s what it made me think of. Those of you who lived through the Chretien AdScam scandal might remember [...]

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Terrorism Works

Most Western folk are pretty calm and rational about negotiating our way through life. We know that there’s a little give and a little take, and that patience is a virtue. We know that sticks and stones may break our bones, but burning a flag won’t hurt anyone (unless they’re standing too close to the [...]

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Non-essential surgery

The quality of a nation’s health care isn’t just based on whether or not you get through emergency triage with chest pains (you do, and damn fast). There are also the non-essential surgeries and treatments that effect quality of life. hip replacement knee and ligament surgery (no point touting the keep fit model if we [...]

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