By Rod Mickleburgh Like many Vancouverites, I presume, I have a love-hate relationship with the big box Chapters bookstore downtown at Robson and Howe. Stocking the main floor with almost everything BUT books, bringing in the flag-waving American Girl franchise to what is supposed to be a Canadian bookstore, and, worst of all, the shameful […]
Congratulations, it’s a fake
Parenting, from time immemorial, has been considered a noble purpose in life. No major religion is without some form of the exhortation to honour one’s parents. Indeed, in the Abrahamic religions, God is himself a father, while feminists, not content with the subordinate role allocated to women while Yahweh was king, long for a kinder, […]
Babes of Toyland
I’ve been thinking about tech predictions for 2008, and have I got a good one for you. 2008 will be the year of the sexbot! That’s right, cooing, ooing, orgasming sexbots. Okay, maybe they won’t be able to actually orgasm, but women have been faking it since long before recorded history (heck, I wouldn’t be […]