And with Canadians. You can’t just decide to start fucking with the Great Lakes and think that it won’t have any other consequences beyond killing some poors that no one appears to give a shit about and who are already being targeted through indifference/disdain by their own damned state governments.

Jesus christ on a cheeto, do Americans realize that the Great Lakes are also Canadian? Fucking Trumpnuts, you can’t just cancel programs that feed into international cooperation with your nearest and dearest you fucking dipshits. I guess the Great Wall of Canada will also extend through the water to make sure that…

Not even a little bit. I assumed all posts that were highlighted in the “you may also like” sidebar were recent, older posts are usually just tagged at the end of a newer post. Oh well... /shrug.

Lol, that guy. I don`t think it`s him (that`s James Le Gros) 

Get educated now, know what your options are, and make decisions about your deal-breakers (while understanding that those deal breakers might mean squat once you’re in the middle of it all). My deal-breaker was no laughing gas (I wanted to avoid barfing if I could at all help it), and no episiotomy ever (they’re not…

In Canada too, in the majority of provinces midwives are registered, regulated, medically trained up the ying yang (pun intended), legally obligated to be affiliated with a hospital, and required to refuse high risk births (e.g. twins, and until recently, breech babies). They operate in partnership with hospitals and…

Clearly I need to learn to Twit!

The US’s northern neighbour...

The post on the floats from Karneval in Germany... 8/

I was in a grad student union for several years and my husband is a permanent employee of one (TAs, RAs and proctors in one grouping, lifeguards in another). There are various ways to maintain membership lists, generally the university needs to cooperate but labour law usually takes care of that (i.e. they are legally…

I’m in Canada but I had to share the magic on FB, make it #1!

I remember thinking it seemed like a really random pairing... I’m so happy for my ears that it wasn’t!

I have always liked what Daniel Lanois does as a producer, and while I always feel like I *should* like what he writes and sings himself, I can’t get past thinking he’s kind of self-important... I saw him in concert a year or so ago and could not stop rolling my eyes at his studiously “laid back”, over-accessorized,…

It’s really, really good....

Ditto on Raising Sand, it’s so good! And Paper Airplane (2011) with Union Station is lovely!

And abusers aren’t always male, and gymnasts aren’t always female...

He is most definitely a sex worker of some kind. The drug use suggests survival or transactional sex:/

When it’s your job most likely...

Him ‘n Prince - who the hell *wouldn’t* be hot and bothered??

You learn something new and good and pure every day!