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Comment on The infantilization of childhood by MoreCoffeePlease

MoreCoffeePlease — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:55:29 +0000

It’s the same sort of ridiculousness that meant I had to make special arrangements for my 8-year-old (at the time) to walk 1 block home for lunch ALONE (OMG OMG OMG).

I don’t think we’ve discussed the tsunami specifically, but we’re certainly not going to hide it from her. WTF?

Comment on A few good wines by MoreCoffeePlease

MoreCoffeePlease — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:17:48 +0000

I have nothing intelligent to add — just wanted to note that I appreciate the wine posts!

Comment on Real estate geography by Dalton48

Dalton48 — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:41:37 +0000

Add in Leslieville, for everything south of Gerrard and east of Broadview to Coxwell or so, Cabbagetown, which spreads north, south and west of its actual borders, and we’re there along the Bloor line.

Leaside and Lawrence Park essentially battle it out for the north… whatever is not one is swallowed into the other in real estate land.

Comment on Real estate geography by MoreCoffeePlease

MoreCoffeePlease — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:52:04 +0000

We could probably get it down to half a dozen. West to east, maybe Kingsway, BWV, Annex, Yorkville, Riverdale, Beaches with Forest Hill perhaps north of Yorkville…

Comment on The poignant, poignant pain of eating on $225 a month by Paul

Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:42 +0000

What morons! Speaking as a 40-something professional who brought a homemade (gasp) sandwich to work today (OK, I am admittedly cheap, plus it was good), I have very, very, very limited sympathy for this nonsense.

I also think that it’s a good character-building (and time-honored) tradition for students to live below the poverty line – as distinct, in fairness, from graduating with crushing debts.

The Star may be trying to have some fun letting these narcissists make fools of themselves in their own words, although I’m not sure the paper is that sophisticated…

Comment on The poignant, poignant pain of eating on $225 a month by Catharine

Catharine — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:40:43 +0000

The Star intones dramatrically that, “the only sandwich Rachel Crane can afford is home-made.”

Home-made sandwiches! It is hard to imagine such a state of culinary deprivation.

I’m with you, More Coffee — there’s lots to criticize in the OSAP system, but giving students $225/month for food isn’t top of my list. For that you could eat very nicely indeed…assuming access to a kitchen, of course. A freezer would help, too.

Comment on Blame the victim (again and again) by The other reader

The other reader — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:30:00 +0000

Dunno.
In the interest of full disclosure, I need to state that I am a driver.
While I think the horrible pedestrian deaths are a statistical anomaly and while I cannot disagree with the view that the traffic laws should be better enforced, I have noticed (or at least it feels this way to me) that more pedestrians are stepping out into the street without themselves looking, that increased Ipod and phone use makes them less aware of motorized traffic, and there is sometimes (not very often) a certain moral cockiness of jaywalkers (first observed in cyclists0 that does not take into account that the tons of steel and glass cannot stop on a dime or also has a right to the road. Solely blaming the pedestrian is of course plainly wrong, there are terrible drivers out there, but some pedestrians are not completely innocent either.

Comment on Authenticity watch: the child-like child by Dalton48

Dalton48 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:01:38 +0000

This wasn’t meant to be quite so curmudgeonly. The story was obnoxious, but what irritated me was the description of a child’s innocence as “child-like.” Can a child really be described as “child-like”? Sometimes, things really are just what they are.

Comment on Authenticity watch: the child-like child by Paul

Paul — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:32:59 +0000

I’m afraid there’s probably no cure for the instinct to post adorable little anecdotes about the darndest things that one’s kids do and say, reprehensible though it is.

But I agree that doing so in a fake first person stream of consciousness format (twee-ting, if you will) is stepping way over the line.

Comment on Ontario VQA 2008 by lawgeek

lawgeek — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:10:20 +0000

Tried the 2008 Cave Spring $14 off-dry with our Thai takeout this evening. It’s OK, though not very interesting. Better on the nose than on the palate.