This will be the first in a multi-part series in Dispatches from Canada about how we organize our country politically, and how we operate our system of parliamentary democracy. This post is going to be about the fundamentals, with the more esoteric stuff saved for later posts. Think of this as a foundation for the posts that come later.
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This takes Soon Cow to a new level. Scientists are genetically modifying cows to produce “Human” milk.
Before you know it, we will alter cows to gestate our offspring.
Arnold “I never groped that gal” Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver call it quits.
Maria was a fool to leave the family manse. Never give up the house gals! Throw HIS ass out. Oh and Maria? Eat something.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Both the book and its two movie counterparts have many perceived villains. But, when you think about it, none of them are actually villains in the first place. Slugworth, the obvious culprit, is actually just a moral test placed in the children’s way by Willy Wonka. You could also consider Willy Wonka a villain; but in the end he is just trying to find an heir to his empire. The true villain in the series is Grandpa Joe.
We already know that Sarah Palin is an Internet troll, but it sure does feel nice to have a journalist confirm it. According to today’s piece in The Atlantic, Palin “obsessed over her image” and “orchestrated a campaign to inundate newspapers with phony letters praising her.” A particularly odd obsession, considering that she actually got stuff done for Alaska.
Editor’s Note: This report on the situation in Alabama was written by Writesforfood, please show her some appreciation for sharing with us. Also, thanks to Michelle Lepianka Carter of The Tuscaloosa News for use of these amazing photos.
On nice, sunny spring mornings in my town, I used to wake up to the sound of lawnmowers and leaf blowers.
Not anymore. These days, the sounds that wake us are those of chainsaws firing up and heavy equipment rumbling past the house.
In a 2002 study done at SUNY Albany, 293 college women answered questionnaires about their sexual histories and took the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a commonly used criterion for gauging depression symptoms. Women who always had sex with men without using condoms had significantly lower levels of symptoms of depression than those who never or infrequently had unprotected sex, as well as those who abstained from sex entirely. There was no noticeable difference in depression between condom users and people who didn’t have sex, indicating that intercourse itself wasn’t the mood-boosting factor.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a teenage girl who was dismissed from her high school’s cheerleading squad after refusing to cheer for the young man who raped her. (He is a member of the basketball team; he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor to avoid jail time.)
Not having a mom on Mother’s Day is like being newly single on Valentine’s Day.
You don’t want to be that bitter person… but you are.
You don’t want to resent other women for having a mom to love… but you do.
You wish you could stop feeling sorry for yourself … but you can’t.
If you guessed Blacks, Gays, Jews, Mexicans or women, you’d be wrong. At least according to Rep. Chris Smith (R, Outer Mongolia).