Signalling your turns: it’s not actually optional.

Let me begin with a disclaimer: this blog is not directed at you. I’m sure you’re an excellent driver. And, even if you’re not, that doesn’t really affect me unless you live in or around the Greater Moncton Area or intend to visit here in the near future. No, this blog is directed at drivers [...]

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No wonder Baby Jesus shut off comments to his blog.

On Monday, the reliably funny Scott Feschuk wrote a blog pretending to be Baby Jesus liveblogging from the manger. It’s worth a read, if you have the time, even if only for this segment:
11:51 Man, this is awkward. There’s this kid who’s been playing his drum for me for, like, ever. Which is great and [...]

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Rick’s Rants: A Part of Our Heritage

In a week where every day we have seen things never before predicted there is a simple solution.
We need one more historic press conference attended by two political enemies. A joint press conference between Stephen Harper and Stephane Dion.
A historic event where they both apologise to their country and their parties, in that order, and [...]

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Suicide as spectator sport

Many people have heard the story of Megan Meier, the 13-year-old who committed suicide after being tormented online by a teenage boy who told her to kill herself… who later turned out to be not a teenage boy at all but a 49-year-old mother getting some kicks through cyberbullying. (The woman in question, Lori Drew, [...]

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