She’s not the Canadian Rosa Parks. She’s Viola Desmond.

Buster Dog is offended by boobs and nakedness. He shakes and stares and grumbles.

They really are! She had her own little bed for daytime naps (pictured) but at night she felt like a part of me :).

One of my favorite books as a kid (which I read shortly after graduating from the Little House series) is Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It’s about a young girl who THINKS she’s living in 1840s Indiana, only to find out that her village is actually a tourist attraction and it’s really 1996. The novel…

I didn’t even really want to be pregnant but damn if I didn’t end up fertilized anyway. I was too depressed to really worry about gender. Now I have a 14 year old and holy fuuuuuuuuuck she’s a handful. Funny and weird and witty, but a goddamn handful. So I’m just gonna recommend that everybody stop having kids and we…

Sudan is the rhino version of King Henry VIII in his declining years, right down to the festering leg and lack of heirs.

Nah.

honey, $36,000.00 is an ~80% raise for me. the list of things i wouldn’t do for that kind of money is shorter. welcome to capitalism.

I don’t know where to start here.

The Crown didn’t have to go with manslaughter, it’s included as an option if the jury doesn’t believe that second-degree murder was proven. Commenter ‘once upon a treetop’ also mixes up some fact with some fiction in his comment. Both of you are engaging in a disinformation campaign with your comments to try to…

I don’t know what the stats are in your neck of the woods, but in Canada, 60% of Natives live OFF reserve. They live in big urban populations, just like everybody else. Integration isn’t the problem, it’s superior and colonialist attitudes of white Canadians.

Hey you should read about Senator Lynn Beyak who thinks that residential schools weren’t entirely bad.

There were marches and protests and demonstrations all across the country. And yes, some Canadians are racist and evil.

Aww, look, someone who has no idea what they’re talking about! So cute.

Republican in the front, skinhead in the back.

I did research on workplace sexual harassment in law school. I’m hardly an expert, but a lot of my research showed that a reason some victims do not come forward is that they do not actually want to ruin their harasser’s life and get him fired. For some victims, they want a more restorative approach (counselling,…

Oh god we had a Guernsey, they *are* nice. We named her Bubbles! She was very gentle, but also had a weird personality. The summer before I moved in with my gran on her farm she discovered a patch of ditch weed and ate it all. Gran said she was never the same, and kept wandering over to that corner of pasture in case…

Yep. I read Shock Doctrine when it came out several years ago and I think about it constantly lately. THEY ARE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE. When everything goes to shit, they can do whatever they want and the vast majority of people won’t notice, or if they do they won’t have the energy to fight back.

Whatever the sister calls her kid they should just refer to it as Sabrina.

When a good friend of mine entered hospice, his wife sent this article to everyone on the visiting list. Since I became seriously chronically ill, I have given it to many people. Maybe they’ll get the hint?

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/07/opinion/la-oe-0407-silk-ring-theory-20130407