Francophobes...  Can anyone actually ellucidate why they hate the French? People in Paris can be snotty.  This is true.  Ever been to Boston? How about Atlanta?

How about, instead of raising the age (unless free universal health care is provided to all citizens) we look at removing the 'cap' to wages that can be taxed. I say remove the cap altogether so that executives and CEO's are seeing the same bite from payroll taxes as are the employees.  This will force business as w...more

This is not a problem with capitalism but with unregulated capitalism.   There needs to be a visible hand to guide the invisible hand and ensure that corporations are limited from behaving poorly in order to gain more profit.

Many of you are not really aware of the reasons for pension underfunding.  Pensions were well funded until Wall Street and the Ratings Agencies LIED to the institutional investors who manage the pensions.    Pensions that were required by law to invest in only certain classes of investments (Those rated AAA and had...more

The divorce rate figure is an example of statistics being misused.   Divorce rate indicates that 40-50% of all Marriages lead to divorce, but the Divorce rate for _First Marriages_ is much lower. Statistics are skewed when you count in second, third, and beyond marriages.   Our high divorce rate is related more to p...more

But she had some of her best acting EVER in that movie!  You know that part, where she dies, and she is laying on a slab in the chapel.... OMG! I couldn't tell she wasn't really dead!

Damn straight the letter writer overreacted.   A simple search turns up 'The Calgary Stampede' being an internationally famous Rodeo held in Calgary in July, during the time the letter writer was in Calgary. They were likely very obviously tourists and the locals just said hello and asked a question.  The guy even n...more

This article is filled with so much _wrong_.

Unnecessary cut.  I live in Aurora, do not think this is necessary or even smart.  It is not glorifying the action nor encouraging repeats.