Like everyone I have an embarrassing and guilty pleasure. I’m not proud of it, but if there is an addiction I must live with, I guess I can resign myself to this: The Bachelor. I don’t watch a lot of television, but you can bet every Monday between 8 and...
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Category Archives: Achtung
>Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays
> Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself… ~Norman Wesley Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas,” 1976...
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>Social Media: An Epidemic of Narcissism – Achtung!
> With the advent of Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, youtube, Linkedin, and blogging, we have entered the dawn of a new era. Social media: providing outlets for self promotion, repeated 5 minutes of fame and pure self indulgence. As a social media junkie, I by no means count myself out of...
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>Uninvited to Queen’s Park: Who IS Ontario’s Minister of Sport??? – ACHTUNG!
> On October 20, 2011 Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty unveiled his new cabinet and no Minister responsible for sport was named. The Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport has disappeared, vanished into thin air and has returned to a title of just Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. (I guess...
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>Don’t Forget to Feel Your Boobs – Achtung!
> As we leave the month of October and usher in the month of Movember where men eagerly sport their “stache” in support (and hopefully fundraising for a charity) for men’s health, let us not forget the teachings of October. While October does include Halloween and Thanksgiving (in Canada) it...
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