Proposition 8 and the sacred-marriage myth

  
I think it is truly hilarious that all these religious types are so opposed to Same-Sex Marriage. “Marriage is sacred” they say. How can they even keep a straight face?
They want to deny marriage to a couple of the same sex because they think that it injurs the mighty institution of marriage. I ask them: [...]

Addicted to Publicity

So news and events on which to comment have basically been spewing all over the place for weeks now. So many things to get me going, piss me off, and really make me want to rant and rave…so many that it’s hard to know where to begin.
But as I pondered, and stewed, fretted, and festered, [...]

Cause every little girl wants to grow up to be a stripper…..

A very interesting report put out by the Quebec status of women, (which still receives funding because apparently women are still considered equal in Quebec) points out a huge problem with marketing sex to prepubescent girls. The report makes several recommendations on how to improve the equality of women by helping young girls to understand [...]

A little VACAY

 
So I am heading to Amsterdam for a little vacay and I hope you will forgive my absence.
Please come back next week.
I promise I will be WELL rested and full of indignation.
Have a great Week!!!!

Killer goes to jail this time

I just wanted to say, I am very happy that psycho killer Thomas Svekla is going to prison, most likely forever. And the coverage of this horrible murder and the sad loss of life of Theresa Innis was so much better than that of Stephine Beck. 
Justice Sterling Sanderman should teach Judge Steven Glithero a few [...]

The opt out revolution is absolute BULLSHIT.

When I first heard about Lisa Belkin’s Opt Out Revolution article in the New York Times, I was angry. Angry at my fellow professional women- all fired up and frustrated that women were leaving professional jobs to stay home. How can we change the world if we just stay home? This made me mad.
But then, [...]

John McCain is a sleazy slut

The Daily Mail has a very interesting article about John McCain and his first wife. Check out: The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind.
Just seems so typical of republicans and their “family values.” It’s such bullshit. They all want women to stay home and pop out their babies but then when they get [...]

Toilet Tales

For your Friday entertainment.
The following is a script for a short film. The entire story takes place in a bathroom. It’s a juicy little tale about a bunch of 20-somethings and their dramas. Enjoy!
TOILET TALES
INT. BATHROOM – DAY
Inside a large, funky, colorful, bathroom of a student type house, Arlee is busy cleaning. She is [...]

Mr. Good Enough????

So this whole “Settle for Mr. Good Enough” advice being spewed by basically single women pushing forty who want babies and think back, romantically in a hindsight is 20-20 kind of way, on Billy and his University letterman jacket and that despite his penchant for funneling beer he probably would have been a great husband [...]

Funky Find Friday: Fornarina shoes

Ummmmmm….shoes.
These Italian beauties are just too hot. Pink and sequined. I Looooovvvveeee them. The Fornarina sport selection is especially fabulous. Not too expensive and nice quality. 
Check them out!

Ten Kick-ass Documentaries you should really check out

1) The Corporation: If you haven’t already seen it, check out this Canadian masterpiece on big business. Visually stimulating with incredible journalistic integrity, this film looks at all sides and interviews experts both for and against the current business models in our western world. The result, really quite mindblowing and extremely informative. NOT TO MISS.
2) Packing Heat: Probably my all [...]

Link between vaccines and autism

A new study, and the most comprehensive ever done, reveals that there is a link between exposure to mercury from Thimerosal Vaccines and autism. 
Read the report at Pharmalot.com. 
It is insane how many research roadblocks were set up by both the government and the pharmaceutical company. It’s time to get to the bottom of this. 
 

Canadian Beer Commercials

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Canadian Beer: A Part of Our Heritage

  The following is a little academic but it is an interesting analysis of how Beer commercials have tried to foster and create a Canadian identity.  
Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity.  All it has is unity.

- Kenneth Boulding, University of Michigan professor of [...]

Unsolicited Advice or Random Rudeness: What to do?

So being a sensitive, over-analyzer as well as a bit of a narcissist, (If someone honks I of course think it’s all about me) I often over-react to comments made to me by strangers. For years, I would fester and wallow. I would stew and stammer out some kind of wicked response. I would feel hurt [...]

The many hats of Canadian Royal Autumn Kelly

    
      
     
Congrats to Pointe-Claire native Autumn Kelly and the Queen’s eldest grandson Peter Phillips on their wedding! 
See we have some celebs. And I LOOOOVVVEEEEE that none of Autumn’s friend’s and family back in Pointe- Claire would sell her out to the tabloids. 

Yet Another reason not to buy goods from China

Reports are starting to emerge about rampant corruption involved in the construction of some of the collapsed buildings following the devastating earthquake in China. 
This should serve as yet another reminder that we should not be getting practically all of our goods from China until there are some major changes. Lead in children’s toys, poison in dog food, Iron [...]

Playstation 3 ad, what’s it all mean?

While a lot of people are blabbing on about how profane the playstation 3 ad is, I personally am very puzzled about what it is supposed to mean:
A) That playstation is so masculine that you practically play with your dick.
B) That because you play so much playstation, you may as well not even have a [...]

Get off the patch already

If you use the birth control patch, you go from a 1 in 200,000 chance of DEATH to a 3 in 200,000 chance.
If you use the patch, you are exposing yourslef to way more estrogen than you need and it will be completely variable. Mood swings much?
When you throw out that patch, where do you [...]

Government-enforced medical treatment

The sad, sad story of the little Hamilton boy with leukemia forced to undergo treatment is also a story that raises many issues. The government has decided that neither he nor his parents can make the decision to stop his chemotherapy. I question whether this is a decision made because the doctors strongly believe that [...]

Free-range Children? How about free-range Parents?

The latest “craze” lifestyle journalists are writing about is the so-called free-range parenting ‘movement’. The gist: after years of over parenting, over-scheduling and over-hand holding their children, some parents are turning their back on the child-centered model toward a more, care-free, unstructured methodology. 
Both the Globe and Mail and the National Post have weighed in on this ‘BIG NEW [...]

Perez Hilton: Selling out???

Is it just me or is perezhilton.com becoming extremely boring and promotional lately? I have a pretty good feeling that he is about to cash in big time. Seems like he has really been tidying up his language and content and maybe even pimping a little for some networks. We’ll see. 
I mean, I love the guy. I [...]

Bridal Shop of Horrors

It’s about that time again. The invites are coming, new friends are announcing, the engagement parties and showers are looming and the stagette planning is well underway.
If you’re married, you get to listen to your engaged friends ramble on about their weddings when really, you’ve been there, done that and really don’t give a shit about [...]

Some reflections on why I hate driving

A Road Worth Taking
I’ll always remember my mother’s reaction when I ran out to the car after taking my driving test. “I passed mom,” I said. “You’re, kidding,” she said. “Right?”
I was not in fact kidding. And after slowing down at every uncontrolled intersection and school zone and somehow miraculously managing to parallel park for [...]

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

“Half of all couples who get married, stay together forever.”
I think these words carry a lot of wisdom because we always hear so much blabbing about how everyone is divorced and how the state of marriage is in shambles and how commitment is over. But really, half of all couples stay together till they’re like [...]

Sniffer Dogs in Supreme Court

Three cheers for Canada’s Supreme Court!!!
They have decided not to allow a breach of our civil liberties because Fido can smell what we were up to last night from a mile away.
I did a little story on cops using sniffer dogs at road side checks in Ontario. I wrote this quite a while back but [...]

Why are Feminists so mean to each other?

I am very sad today after reading Jessica Valenti’s post on her AMAZING blog Feministing.com. Not because I don’t think that it was very heartfelt, honest, reflexive and promising but that it pains me that she felt she had to write it at all. Feminists are mean to each other. Especially in their comments online.
When [...]

Pay Pal Plays Favorites

Pay Pal recently decided that the Federation of Canadian Naturists (nudists) should be cut off.
Apparently Canadian nudists do not deserve the right to use Pay Pal because in the pages of their newsletter you may happen across a family standing on a dock naked, about to take a swim. Oh my God, the profanity. Parents, [...]

Miley Cyrus: Smart Career Move

Everywhere you look and listen today you will hear the tisk tisking of tween sensation Miley Cyrus. From Perez Hilton labeling her SLUTTY to Bill O’Reilly lamenting the loss of her good girl image and speculating on the damage done to her career. I call BULLSHIT.
Now first of all, I am not a fan of [...]

The versatility of the F-Word

You may have noticed that I am a fan of spicy language. Words are just words. Censorship gives them power. Remember when Bitch used to be a dirty word. Now you hear it everywhere.
I recently saw a documentary, aptly named FUCK, that explores the history of the word. It examines how the word has been [...]