This month, see our EVENTS page under generationX. And the WORLD HEALTH CLUB Fitness Tip of the Month: don’t pack on the carbs after 5pm. Why not? Because we burn them off more during the day.
Well now, let’s reason together. 8,000 Canadians die annually from hospital infection, but we prefer to spend money on foreign wars. Isn’t it time we called a spade a spade? Politicians like war. War is fun. As a politician, you’re safe at home and you get tons of thrilling press coverage. Which brings us to Khadr, the Canadian kid in US hands at Guantanamo, the boy we hate to think about. If his name were McGrath or Edwards or Cohen or he weren’t tainted with the fearful terrorist propaganda that passes for news these days, would Harper have brought him home for trial long ago as other countries have with their nationals? It’s embarrassing whatever the answer. Though while we’re discussing fun, shall we not also admit that – for some – bigotry is like bullying at school, a joy to inflict provided you’re outside the target group? Living in Alberta, we try to attract quality persons to our political realm by increasing their pay, a strategy which evidently has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams, because we no longer trouble to vote.
More talk about Tasers, as we become a land of Papa Doc and Mugabe enforcers. If we were innocent, we’d be in a bus to the oil fields, right, minding our own business, reading the comics? And if you were a virtuous woman, you wouldn’t be beautiful: what a minefield we create for ourselves in the gender wars, or so this issue of MensaMag lays beneath our hesitant and arrogant feet. Then there’s the deliberate underfunding of health care. In the end, private hospitals and insurance will be necessary because of the policies of the ninnies who run our country. Sigh.
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