I've seen such a wide variety of comments on Remembrance Day (and/or the various other names it's called by in other countries) on my Facebook feed today. Some are moving, some are thought-provoking, and some are -- well, varying degrees of saddening, and not necessarily in any way their posters intended.

I've always felt conflicted about ( Read more... )

Alert to dog owners in Toronto - in case you haven't heard, there's been another case of dog poisonings in a public park. This time it was Dog Hill, in High Park -- someone laced the drinking water provided for the dogs there with antifreeze, and two dogs died.

Full storyThis comes after a few years ago, someone left bits of meat laced with ( Read more... )

I am having one of those days where I just don't understand the human race, or at least the portions of it I most frequently come in contact with. It just seems like there's been a huge string of conflicts and blow-ups lately among people I know, and so many of them just seem unnecessary ( Read more... )

I'm having an I-hate-the-human-race day.

• Two people I know and like appear to have just had a massive falling-out with two other people I know and like. I've had that happen so often it's like deja vu every time. Inevitably I get caught in the middle, and it's never pretty.
  
  
• The other night I had to drop everything I was doing, late at night, to ( Read more... )

I have a splitting headache from the tension, and have hardly gotten any work done today. But I have had more news ( Read more... )