Joel Klebanoff: Stuff & NonsenseJoel Klebanoff: Stuff & Nonsense

Watching Atheists

Joel Klebanoff — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:19:00 +0000

I’m an atheist. One should not make that statement without defining one’s terms because there is some disagreement about what atheism means. In my book, and I think most books that bear the word “dictionary” on their covers as well, atheism doesn’t require that you know there is no god, only that you believe there [...]

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Let me live. Or words to that effect.

Joel Klebanoff — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:07:03 +0000

A few minutes ago I saw a picture tweeted by a reporter covering an anti-abortion protest in Ottawa, Canada (my nation’s capital). The picture showed someone who appeared to be well beyond her child-bearing years. She was carrying a sign that had a picture of a fetus and the words “PLEASE LET ME LIVE.” Considering [...]

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60

Joel Klebanoff — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:24:56 +0000

I turned 60 today. You know what they say, “60 is the new 40.” This just goes to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are incurable freaking imbeciles, because that’s a heaping pile of warm crap. (Although, that having been said, I’m approaching the age when staying regular is often an important [...]

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New Socks

Joel Klebanoff — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:42:04 +0000

I recently bought some socks. In and of itself, that is not what one might normally, or even under exceptional circumstances, label “an extraordinary event.” In fact, nothing even vaguely related to anything I’m going to write about today is something that anyone at all would normally, or even under exceptional circumstances, in any way [...]

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Housework-Challenged

Joel Klebanoff — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:22:33 +0000

I hate housework, absolutely hate it. Holding world-championship medals for both indolence and procrastination doesn’t help to get domestic chores done either. What’s more, even if I were a raving male chauvinist, which I’m not, because I’m single I still wouldn’t have a wife or live-in girlfriend to try to slough them off to. Besides, [...]

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Insanely Religious

Joel Klebanoff — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:46:18 +0000

On September 4, 2012, when the results came in after the last provincial election in Québec, a man went to the Parti Québecois victory party, shot two people, killed one person, and set a fire before leaving the scene. He was charged with murder, three attempted murders, arson and a few other things. There might [...]

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First Times

Joel Klebanoff — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:40:31 +0000

I often wonder who was the first person to think of performing certain activities or, rather, not so much who thought of them, but why they did. I also wonder who first thought of some products, but I’ll save that discussion for another day. I’m not thinking of activities that make perfect sense now and [...]

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Smartphone Obsessed

Joel Klebanoff — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:53:54 +0000

For a period of about two years, which ended five or six years ago, I wrote a weekly column of allegedly humorous rants about the use and abuse of digital technologies. Some people say that I wrote the columns weakly, not weekly, but ignore them. Only literate people say that. The publisher of the online [...]

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That Time of Year

Joel Klebanoff — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:25:10 +0000

Well, it’s that time of year again. The weather is what it is. Flowers and foliage are in their current states. Stores are displaying goods appropriate for the season. And people are busy doing what people are busy doing. I would expand on this thought, but I don’t know if you are reading this shortly [...]

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Iron Man (or Woman)

Joel Klebanoff — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:53:35 +0000

Iron is an important element in good health. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, iron deficiency can increase the risk that pregnant women will bear small or early-term babies. It can also cause developmental delays in infants. In adults it can cause fatigue. And in teens it can affect memory and [...]