Beyond the Rhetoric

A couple of weeks ago, I launched the Facebook Me and Win contest. The concept was very simple. All you had to do was join the I Read Beyond the Rhetoric Facebook group, write a comment on the group’s wall, and you’d be entered to win a brand new iTrip nano from Griffin Technology. Well, [...]

It’s Memorial Day in the United States today, so a lot of people are out enjoying their long weekends. Last Monday, it was Victoria Day here in Canada and many Canadians were similarly enjoying their long weekends. That is, many Canadians who hold conventional jobs at conventional workplaces were enjoying their much-deserved days off, because [...]

The animal kingdom is filled with all sorts of wonderful and fascinating creatures. You don’t need to venture out for a visit to the zoo or embark on an expensive safari to find wildly fascinating and furry friends though. Sometimes, the most interesting of animals can be found under our own roofs. Anyone who has [...]

Terminator Salvation (2009) When Christian Bale said that Arnold Schwarzenegger was no longer relevant to the Terminator franchise, I almost considered skipping this movie in protest. Shortly after this moment of temporary insanity, I came to my senses and knew that there was no way I was going to miss this summer blockbuster. As the [...]

Not all courier services are built alike. They all claim to do fundamentally the same thing, delivering your parcels in a timely and efficient manner, but do they all actually deliver as advertised? Since I work from home as a freelance writer, I get random deliveries from time to time, typically containing samples of products [...]