Making the news rounds today:
A girl here in Quebec died after kissing her boyfriend who ate a peanut butter sandwich nine hours before.
My first thought was, yikes, that sucks! And then, nine hours?? He didn’t wipe his mouth after nine hours??
They’ve found that due to the amount of fat in their buttocks, obese [...]

An addendum, if I may: “I don’t like the idea of being picked as a number” .
Normally I would not start a post off with such a morbid title, but I fail to find humor in the irony of this case. I don’t understand this fascination with “significant” milestones. By putting so much attention [...]

So I know I said I wasn’t going to blog anymore this week, but this happened. While I’m sure the decision to drop drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge from the budget bill had nothing to do with environmental concerns, I’m still glad it’s off the table for now.
What I don’t understand is how [...]

The British Columbia Supreme Court has passed a decision that allows the Provincial government to sue tobacco industries for costs to the health care system.
In a conversation yesterday about this very topic, we were talking about how this new ruling will open the floodgates for other provinces to follow suit. I made [...]

I really don’t mean to blog about American politics all the time. Actually, I don’t mean to be blogging at all since I have other things I need to write first. But, I DO need to catch up on the news and when google news spits out a story like this, It’s just [...]

“Whether it’s race-based or not, if you give your tax cuts to the rich and hope everything works out all right, and poverty goes up, and it disproportionately affects black and brown people, that’s a consequence of the action made,” [Clinton] said. “That’s what they did in the ’80s; that’s what they’ve done in this [...]

Some Kan. Board Members Skipped Readings
By JOHN HANNA (Washington Post, May 6, 2005)
TOPEKA, Kan. — As a State Board of Education subcommittee heard more testimony Friday on how evolution should be taught in Kansas classrooms, one member acknowledged that she hadn’t read all of an evolution-friendly draft of science standards proposed by [...]