We all have differences of opinions about food, but none may be as dramatic as the difference between meat-eaters and veggie-eaters. So, you ask, what are omnivores and herbivores thinking at the dinner table? Two intern colleagues decided to find out. (Sorry about the title, but we had to get the word of the week in there somehow…)
by Laura “Meat-Please” Massey and Laurenellen “No-Thank-You” McCann
Cozy.
Why isn’t it spelled C-o-s-y like nosy?
Thu Inglish langwedge iz baphling.
That makes me feel really uncomfortable.
I’ll deal with the unnecessary standards of the English language…
Cozy it is.
I grew up on boats: fishing boats, row boats, kayaks, and sailboats of all shapes and sizes. I learned to sail in a wide, emerald-hulled dinghy that I named Kerbonzo (I really liked garbanzo beans) and cruised Alaskan waters aboard my family’s majestic ketch. In high school, I joined the rowing team and was on the water every day in fragile, aerodynamic shells.
Now there’s a new boat in town, and it belongs to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
Photo from the Globe and Mail
Contrary to popular sentiment, I’d like to report that journalism is indeed alive. It may have a faint heartbeat right now, but the doctor has waved off the paddles.
It’s disconcerting to say the least to graduate from college and have everyone tell you that the industry you’re trying to get a job in is doomed. But there’s a difference between a newspaper that fails due to poor quality and a newspaper that fails due to poor planning for the future. And then there are the newspapers that innovate. Up in Ann Arbor, Michigan where I went to school, The Ann Arbor News transformed into a digital-only news service. After 173 years of print reporting, they stopped their presses.
Local journalism has suffered the most though, as scores of papers, radio stations, and TV stations are falling victim to the lack of money in an industry that is 99% dependent on revenue and 1% dependent on interesting stories. The paradox is, most people don’t pay for said content.
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