Challenging the Commonplace
Blog URL http://challengingthecommonplace.blogspot.com/
Located Duncan, British Columbia Canada
Tags politics, poverty, homelessness, feminism, health, mental health, equality, justice, electoral reform
The authors engage in "challenging the commonplace" and similar irreverent activities. Most of their ruckus-raising targets the political sphere. In other words just about any topic can come under their sharp critique.
Latest Blog Posts
- One Homelessness Factor Avoided Like Plague on Nov 19, 2009 in Housing Homeless Animals
This story illustrates one major contributing factor to the swelling numbers of homeless in BC. It's constantly avoided by the powers-that-be in this province. Sherry was polite and resolute. I was puzzled. I asked why she was willing to sleep in a...
- OMG! Female Sexual Dysfunction on Nov 19, 2009
So, get ready goils. Here's another Dis-ease being foisted on us by Big Pharma: 'Restless Vagina Syndrome' aka 'Female Sexual Dysfunction'.You are among the "43 percent of American women [who] experience some degree of impaired sexual function,...
- Just Be Yourself, Boys. on Nov 18, 2009 in Gender Wars Life and Living
It seems that young men today are struggling to create a new masculine identity for themselves, one that takes them away from the good 'ole boys idea of a REAL man. And they are brainstorming new ways to be in this post-feminist world. This is about...
- Grandfathering on Nov 18, 2009 in Housing Justice
In BC, the CEOs of crown corporations are getting grandfathered salaries. At the opposite end of the economic scale, renters living with disabilities in this province can be denied rent grandfathering. This effectively prevents these long-term, rel...
- Visiting the Food Bank on Nov 17, 2009 in Healthy Eating Poverty
Went to the food bank for the first time two weeks ago. Had been putting off this visit for the past eight years, during which my household income from self-employment was at or below the poverty gap. Disabilities prohibit regular employment. In Can...
- Good News on Nov 17, 2009
According to researchers at BC Cancer Agency a breakthrough has been achieved in the fight against breast cancer. For the first time in history, BC Cancer Agency scientists in British Columbia, Canada have decoded all of the three billion letters in...
- For Cat - and Rossini - Lovers Everywhere on Nov 10, 2009 in Fun-Humour-DIY
This is one of the better renditions of Duetto buffo di due gatti (Humorous Duet for Two Cats), which has been attributed to Gioachino Rossini, but likely was written by Robert Lucas de Pearsall. Have been playing it all day and it cracks me up each...
