From the monthly archives:
Updated below.
An elementary school principal in New Brunswick has decided that O Canada (Canada’s national anthem, for those of you who don’t watch hockey) should not be played or participated in during class time.
Word.
Dumbass.
My suggestion for elementary school principal Erik Millett, the failed Green Party candidate and late-to-the-party hippie, is to suck it up, buttercup. [...]
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The eight year long nightmare the world was having is finally over!
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Actual health experts on abstinence education all agree that teaching it is not effective. That doesn’t discourage the circus known as “abstinence education” in Ohio from participating.
Link to article here.
It’s no wonder abstinence education doesn’t work when even a clown can’t get his costume right. Audience and purpose notwithstanding, any clown who came to my [...]
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Are some people really dumber than a box of hammers?
Yes!
John Rempel said he quit his truck driving job, lost friends, borrowed money and crossed the globe in pursuit of a non-existent inheritance… – Trevor Wilhelm, The Windsor Star
Here’s a link to 419eater.com for some novel ways of responding to these scams — but does [...]
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They’re learning, slowly:
the editor of the Los Angeles Times, Russ Stanton, said the paper’s online advertising revenue is now sufficient to cover the Times’s entire editorial payroll, print and online. – Jeff Jarvis, guardian.co.uk
Link to article here.
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on the road, thanks to cages and the people who drive them:
people reading books and newspapers;
crazies talking on cell phones;
more crazies doing online texting and email;
women putting on makeup;
men shaving;
hungry people eating; and, last but not least,
the stupidity of most automobile drivers.
And now, they’re going to install television?
Give me a fucking break!
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Garrison Keillor gets it right.
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What will it take to get medical professionals to wash their filthy, germ-infested hands before leaving one patient to go to another? This isn’t new, of course. It’s been going on since the middle of the 19th century.
Ignaz Semmelweis in 1847 made the connection, and was pilloried. Joseph Lister, in the mid-1860s, was intelligent enough [...]
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