Category Archives: musings

The wording of ‘O Canada’ needs an update

The Harper government opened Parliament today with a Speech from the Throne that was mostly about the economy, as expected, but there was one rather unexpected development. In a section about honouring Canadian history and identity, there was this bombshell: “Our Government will also ask Parliament to examine the original gender-neutral English wording of the [...]
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Infinite Regress

At the risk of destroying either my website or the computer of anyone visiting, I have created an infinite regress into this article. By embedding an iframe in the HTML code, linking to this very post, it appears there is an infinite number of windows going back into this article. It almost blows your mind, [...]
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Afghan Women’s Magazine

My mother had this “Afghan Women’s Magazine” lying around and the cover was simply too great not to share. Not only is the person on the cover of the Afghan Women’s Magazine not a woman, but he doesn’t seem all that excited about being on the cover anyway, what with his crossed arms and disinterested [...]
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Obama the great compromiser

ISHMAEL N. DARO Opinions Writer After a year in office, U.S. President Barack Obama has shown that even the greatest orators must eventually face the difficulties of governing. Swept into power by an American public hungry for inspiration and a change from the disastrous policies of the Bush administration, Obama was doomed to disappoint his followers sooner or [...]
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Cigarettes just don’t seem as cool as they used to

I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about this poster for Player's cigarettes is off.
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What’s wrong with Discovery Channel?

What ever happened to the Discovery Channel? It used to be an ocean of sanity among the madness of cable television. But after years of cultivating an image as a science and education based channel, Discovery is abusing the trust people have invested in the brand by promoting the most vile, unscientific, ridiculous programming imaginable: [...]
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