How much do you typically have to spend if you are invited to a wedding ?

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Okay, admit it. You tell everyone within earshot that you hate ABBA, but in your heart, you secretly know all the words to Dancing Queen. You could care less about Bjorn what-his-face and all the rest of them, but whenever Take a Chance on Me comes on the car radio, you crank it and sing along. You’re in the shower, and you start humming Super Trooper while you lather up. And the intro to Waterloo gets you tapping your foot on the floor boards of your car while you’re waiting for the light to change on the way to work. It’s okay. You can come out of the closet, or wherever it is that people who say they hate ABBA hide. (more…)

Go ahead. I dare you. Open the grocery flyers that get stuffed into your mailbox

every Friday. Take a gander at what the big corporations and society say is

good for us. Hey, if it’s on sale, it must be good, right? Mmmmm-mmmm-mmmmm.

Push the cart over this way. Come on. (more…)

Want to kick off the fight against obesity ?  Stop cooking things in so much grease, oil and butter.

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The Little Town that Couldn’t

A little town called London Ontario, waaaaaaay up in the Canadian North, woke up one day and thought “I can actually do something”!

It had tried to control this and that and mostly did a decent job. 

When issues arose there would be rancor and uproar for a day or so…then all would go quiet and still, as the Blanket of Silence would again smooth out over the town…the loudest and the last generally getting their way.

None of the nonsense that went on was confined only to little London…similar silliness went on in every corner of every little hamlet as little people fought to fortify their own little fiefdoms.

But now a new challenge came to London. A skirmish…a scuffle…an epic confrontation!

“The battle of the Drive-thru giants”. (more…)

Another round of the show has begun and thousands of hopeful has dwindled to tens of hopefuls.  Hopefully all those hopefuls aren’t too hopeful.

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New legislation in Ontario Canada is trying to put an end to “Power Walls” of cigarettes.  Now, venders have to hide the smokes, and you pick what you want out of a catalogue.  It’s like the “Consumer’s Distributors” of death.  Why are we being such pussies?

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The White House will do its best to deflect on this one, but former press secretary, Scott McClellan appears to have a whole lot to say that isn’t kind to the soon-to-be former President.

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