By Alison@Creekside “The time has come,” the Oliphant said,“To talk of many things:Of envelopes stuffed with wads of cashAnd if they came with strings —Perhaps you only beat the rapBecause the pigs were schwings*.” “But wait a bit,” the Muldoon cried,“Before we have our chat;I have complaints to make,” he said,“Regarding Steve the Fat.”“No Hurry,” […]
crime
O.J.’s final eff up
O.J. Simpson is guilty again!! Or for the first time, depending on which way your 1994 vote swung. After successfully evading all kinds of prison for the alleged murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, O.J. is now headed to the slammer for reclaiming some of his old football junk from […]
Stephen Harper, panicked child
Stephen Harper reminds me of a panicked child, surrounded and overwhelmed in the schoolyard, red-faced and flailing at every perceived enemy and striking not a one. It would be nice if our issues could be solved with quick fixes, but they can’t. For instance, more people in jail does not reduce crime — just glance […]
Thankyou, Robert Fulghum
By Bev Schellenberg Students young and old have returned to school, a yearly phenomenon as certain in September as rainfall in Vancouver. Depending on where you stand on the conveyor belt of life, you likely fit somewhere between ecstatic-that-school-has-begun (as in the case of most parents, some students, and some more senior mall-frequenters) to unfazed-and-basically-unaware […]
Crazy Sue, where are you?
Bev Schellenberg Statistics on car thefts barely blipped on my radar screen until I became a statistic myself. Sure, it was mildly disquieting to discover that since 1996, Canada has held the unenviable title of “car-theft capital of North America”. Or that, according to Statistics Canada, every three minutes another car is stolen, and a […]
Tell it to the boys
From The Calgary Herald, December 28, 2007: “One in five women (aged 16 to 24) never use condoms.” Call me a cynic, but I’m pretty sure most if-not-all women are missing the anatomy required for wearing condoms. Why is it that women are always handed the responsibility to police sex? The article in question is […]
