Category: movies / music / tv

  • Abortion

    I’m posting this for Women’s Writes, which Shine co-created and explains like so: “We’re thinking that it would be really awesome if, on April 5, 2010, we all posted on issues that affect women.” So let’s talk about abortion. This is a sensitive and divisive issue, but one that I have no strong opinions about.…

  • On Ann Coulter, Tolerance, and the Subjectivity of Morality

    Ann Coulter, the conservative political commentator from the U.S., recently made a visit to Canada. First she visited my fine school, UWO, to talk then avoid questions and make a few racial slurs. Then she tried to talk at Ottawa, but backed down when she discovered a shocking truth: people here don’t really like her.…

  • Lessons From The Bachelor, Volume 2

    WTF, Jake. Vienna? Really? We drank Old Vienna and watched in horror as Jake chose her over Tenley. I know it is the cool thing to hate Vienna, but the thing is, I really don’t. There’s nothing wrong with being tactlessly blunt in my books, and I’m sure she’d make a perfectly good friend in…