by bZar | Jun 22, 2006 | Humour
I just watched a video of some of Anne Coulter’s comments about Canada. I just had to revisit this old CBC special as it helps me put her ignorance in perspective....
by bZar | Jun 15, 2006 | Politics
When I was a little girl I believed I lived in a world of moral absolutes. There was right and there was wrong. There were Catholics and Protestants. Cops and robbers. The Freeworld and Commie bastards. I was taught to respect authority and trust in the principles of...
by bZar | Jun 13, 2006 | Life and Reflections
Gather two or more Black women together for any appreciable amount of time and the conversation will eventually get to the topic of hair. I was about six years old when I discovered that one can have either “good” hair or “bad” hair. Curlier or “nappy” hair was bad...
by bZar | Jun 11, 2006 | Childhood Memories
This is what most people remember when they think of Albert Einstein – the perfect caracature of the ‘mad scientist’. Albert, along with Madame Currie and Louis Pasteur were childhood heroes of mine. While other kids swooned over rock stars and movie idols, I’d spend...
by bZar | Apr 13, 2006 | Childhood Memories
Forty years ago this Easter I was convinced my mom had won the Irish Sweepstakes. I didn’t know it at the time but the only way you could get Irish Sweepstakes tickets was on the black market. Mom had been buying them from “a friend of a friend” for years and she’d...
