Simply unbelievable:  •  Kim Barker, public health adviser for the Assembly of First Nations, told the Senate committee on aboriginal peoples she was “devastated” when she first heard that health officials were spending precious time debating the wisdom of sending hand sanitizer – which can … read more »

Having a back is like having a furnace or septic system. Hard to ignore when it gets whingely. It's been a while. I'll need to re-establish the sitting up regime. The pre sitting up world was very whingely.  •  But enough about me. Maybe I will look into those ferries on Craigslist as the meds … read more »

We like our crises short and sharp. We like to hear about the big problem on the mid-morning news and have a handle on it by lunch the next day. We mock things that don't play out fast as somehow less worthy. But could it be that we have misjudged swine flu due to its lack of lickity-splitness …

I have never fully subscribed to the school that points out others "making too much" of something. Despite my observations on the utter uselessness of Twitter - not to mention a fairly robust if really just recreationally cynical nature - in a situation like this, what can one make of Don Martin's …

I did a little experiment and left #swineflu up on twitter search last night. This morning, there were over 1400 messages there with (a) panic (b) anxiety and (c) the same joke repeated over and over. By the way, let's first all thank the dolt who invented "RT" or the twut that tells you about the …

One of the webby things that is actually good out of all the widgets on the internet are actually those little opportunities to just give feedback. Be honest. Web 2.0 continues to disappoint: being disappointed by your Facebook friends, time suck, workplace inefficiency, being bored by seventeen …

Remember the transfat surprise post and thread that went to a jolly 137 comments about how French fries (i) couldn't be that bad for you or (ii) were Satan spawn? The thread in which the disproportionate risk of getting yourself in a pickle was subject to claims of professionalism but then … read more »

If January were a person I would not like him. The guest that never seems to leave soon enough and doesn't bring enough when he does show. The month that starts with a hangover. The only reason we do not celebrate the end of January is that February is coming up behind. I used to hate February … read more »

Once a jogger told me he was not a jogger, he was a runner. Looked like jogging to me but, as these things must be critical, I now declare that I am never doing sit-ups again. I shall now simply sit up. I sat up 22,810 times in my 2007-08 season but I packed it in for good a month ago after …