Arts & Culture
Hang the Meat
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Hang
The
Meat—
Up and over the mountain peaks,
Tickle the tips with the tips of my digits.
To the valley I did streak
To nibble the grass with...
Schools are just factories
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Schools are just factories
producing a cooperative work force
fertilizing a crop of young minds
with ideas
genius is limited
those who don't succeed
get weeded out
by numbers without empathy
and by a man in the factory called
the principal
here they...
Hating on Valentine’s haters
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In case you forgot, Feb. 14 is Valentine’s Day. This romantic holiday is filled with roses, poetry, love and flying naked babies. It’s a wondrous time of love being proclaimed and lovers exchanging tokens...
Take pride, Canada
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Canadians claim to be patriotic. We sew our flags on our backpacks when we travel; we chug Tim Hortons coffee like it’s going out of style; we try to convince our American neighbours that...
In a land far, far away
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I am currently sitting in a tiny dorm room in Koper, Slovenia. The heat has turned itself off, I have no sheets on my bed, and the hot water tank is dripping. Ah, the...
The actual food of love
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Imagine a scene where a couple is seated at a table. They stare into each other’s eyes. All that tragic misunderstanding is behind them, and they are a few lines away from the part...
The limits of ‘progressive’ movies
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A couple months ago director James Cameron came out with this movie called Avatar. You may have heard of it. On the surface, its success story is your standard tabloid fare — a Hollywood...
