Big thanks to the 59 percent of my fellow eligible voters in Alberta who completely failed to show up at the polls last night. I would be much less pissed about the return of Tories if more than a handful of people had bothered to get off their couches and participate in the democratic [...]
Categories: opinionation, out of joint
I assume that the majority of people who come here and continue to read my writing are supporters of freedom of expression. Not just supporters but active participants in freedom of expression. No matter how many ways or for what reasons we might censor our writing, people who maintain blogs exercise the privilege to [...]
Categories: bookworming, opinionation
Snow has been falling for the past couple of days. We now have a significant snow cover. It makes me very happy. And I refuse to entertain complaints. The rules of polite conversation dictate that, in small talk situations, you may not outright declare someone crazy for saying they love winter and all it entails. [...]
Categories: opinionation
In answering this, I feel the need for a bit of qualification. I love a lot of stories on many levels, for many reasons, and the standards can vary a lot depending on my mood. These, however, are my three vital components for stories that I would rate highest on my list of favourites.
Most obviously, [...]
Categories: opinionation
About one year into its existence, My Mental Milkcrate started to become less about my life than about my writing. Some time after that, I remember making a series of decisions about the kind of writing I would post. That I would not censor myself on the basis of good/bad or how successfully I thought [...]
Categories: author's notes, opinionation
