I've never been able to have sex in dreams, but lately I've been doing drugs in my sleep. Really fantastic, withdrawal- and side-effect-free drugs for all manner of purposes, including for babies, which I sometimes am. I am very pleased with this development. It makes up for the lack of sex and drugs in my waking life and my continued struggles ( Read more... )

The news just announced that a report from a Canadian MP and an international human rights lawyer shows strong evidence that claims by Falun Gong of large-scale organ seizure are true. The Chinese government has allegedly been harvesting, without consent, organs such as hearts, livers and corneas from detained Falun Gong practitioners, and other ( Read more... )

I found this entry in the 2004 edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary:

compassion club - a non-profit organization which sells marijuana for medical use.

Which.
Surely the dictionary cannot be wrong. I need to find some source to tell me if this grammatical rule has changed in the last few years. I keep hearing which misused on CBC radio, ( Read more... )

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the cremaster cycle

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Gilmore's sense of his own doomed role as drone is expressed in the ensuing sequence in a recording studio where Dave Lombardo, former drummer of Slayer, is playing a solo to the sound of swarming bees.

"Airport-arranged Chinese doctors-happy to be off-happy sitting on-apply for a passport-sending machine-month meal, send son"

it was a mistake to listen to burroughs while trying to eat.

I have been thinking about people in my life who have hurt me, and contemplating whether or not I forgive them. I realized I don't know what "forgive" really means, rather like I don't know what "love" really means. I wondered if the dictionary would have a clear definition that would answer for me if I could even answer the question, "Do you ( Read more... )

Since January 2002, all immigrant and refugee applicants to Canada have been tested for hiv as part of routine medical assessments. In June of that same year, however, the new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act came into effect. That act has a compassion clause stating that refugees and family-class immigrants can no longer be denied entry to ( Read more... )

Human beings are in revolt against life itself. They don't like it.So said Kurt Vonnegut on CBC radio. I only caught the tail end of the interview. He said that human beings don't deserve to be alive anymore and suggested we all pack it in. It took the interviewer a while to follow him there and he had to repeat himself a few times and spell it out ( Read more... )

[Q] Where does the term baited breath come from, as in: ‘I am waiting with baited breath for your answer’?
[A] The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it’s so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there’s every chance it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of ( Read more... )