So hi everybody. Looks like you have been pretty busy while I've been...not so busy ( Read more... )

My sister has introduced me to Flavia de Luce - an 11 year old sleuth and girl genius. She has a delightful obsession with poisons and a lurid imagination. There is none of the coy twee-ness or forced "girliness" of some of the older series I've read in my time.

The books, by Alan Bradley, start with "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie". I ( Read more... )

Poll Can I get an AMEN??

So, one day after International Women's Day, the New York fucking Times and other major news services (re)publish a story about the horrific gang-rape of an 11 year old girl in Texas in which they focus on

1. how unfortunate it is that all the rapists' lives are ruined, and
2. several reports by cockroaches dressed as humans that the 11 year old ( Read more... )

Have you seen this handy little chart on Republican "cost-cutting"?

This is what class war looks like

I wish I knew someone who could crunch the numbers like that for our Fed and Provincial budgets.

I've heard and read some comments suggesting that we don't need an International Women's Day anymore for a number of reasons. Most often it's one of the following:

• women are not a minority
• women are already equal
• why should there only be one day?
• why are we treating women as "the other" from men, instead of dealing with all humans equally
• you're ( Read more... )

( Four of my favourite recipes for Christmas Cookies - two old and two new. )

How to make fake Shamrock Shakes at Home ( Read more... )

CTV deserves nothing but praise for their coverage of the Olympics. They own several channels, and made use of all of them, ensuring that you could watch the entirety of any event you wanted. Over the internet, you could access live feeds of all of the channels, as well as the world feeds which provided up to the minute results, all the scores ( Read more... )

( Do you think this guy leaves red footprints? )