Monthly Archives: April 2008

Oh well, then

Global warming, RIP? All this good panicking for nothing.

Why traditional TV is doomed

 

Ooooh, nicely put

On Barack Obama: For someone who has devoted his adult life to public service (as he describes himself), he has had almost no impact on his world. The grants that he doled out on behalf of the Annenberg fund would still have been issued to the same people. The bills that he signed on to

They don’t mince words in New York either…

A statement from Edward Cardinal Egan: The Catholic Church clearly teaches that abortion is a grave offense against the will of God. Throughout my years as Archbishop of New York, I have repeated this teaching in sermons, articles, addresses, and interviews without hesitation or compromise of any kind. Thus it was that I had an

Crying uncle

Boo-hoo. Now the Canadian Islamic Congress wants to settle with Maclean’s and Mark Steyn. Bullying is only fun when the victim doesn’t fight back…

Weird, what children do to you…

It’s hard to imagine Madonna as a Mommy (hey, I remember Truth or Dare). But look! Having kids seems to have tamed the old Material Girl… A bit. Madonna has a surprisingly tough take on motherhood – she does not let her kids watch television or eat sweets. “Children need limits, otherwise they go off

This is so not the last one…

Lucky nobody got hurt. These things can get real dangerous real fast.

What can I say? Not all women are as smart as the average snail

So you’re old (sorry, mature), fat (sorry, generously proportioned) and probably bitter as well. Have been for years. Life for divorced baby-boomers isn’t quite as fun as you were led to believe. So you go for a vacation somewhere warm, and almost immediately upon landing are being courted by an unbelievably sexy young man. He

Feminist wants women to be women

Mostly splendid piece by a feminist who has come to see the future ain’t what it used to be. My favourite part comes at the end: Sexual equality is all very well. But real equality comes from making your own choices, not just following the well-trodden path towards careerism, simply because it has been signposted

What would they have done if they’d lost?

Hockey team wins, fans trash the place. MONTREAL — Street celebrations following the seventh-game victory by the Montreal Canadiens over the Boston Bruins turned violent Monday night after vandals torched and smashed more than a dozen police vehicles and damaged local businesses.