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just saying by paul sullivan

Paul Sullivan is a Vancouver-based journalist, owner of Sullivan Media consulting, and editor-in-chief of Orato.com, the citizen news website.

Watching the Super Bowl, no questions asked

February 01, 2012

Like 40 or 50 million North American males, I’m an expert on the Super Bowl, the U.S. football championship so big that, like a Rocky movie, it needs to be described using Roman numerals.

Just so we’re clear — they’re cats

January 25, 2012

OK, class, today’s question: How did we get from seeing eye dogs to emotional support animals?

The worst is behind us

January 18, 2012

If you’re reading this, it’s confirmed: you survived what is held to be the most depressing day of the year.

Fat chance for ministry of childhood obesity

January 11, 2012

What’s the matter with kids today?

Hey Bill, what’s your beef?

January 04, 2012

It happens every year about this time.

Never mind the zotz, this isn't the end

December 26, 2011

Another year, another year-end story.

R.I.P. fearless Hitchens

December 21, 2011

It’s tough, writing an appreciation of Christopher Hitchens, the brilliant essayist and author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and the memoir Hitch 22, to name a couple.

Aren’t you people supposed to be strapped for cash?

December 14, 2011

Here’s a Christmas question.

Bah, humbug? Blame Dickens for Christmas

December 07, 2011

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Low consumer confidence easy to swallow with bacon jam

November 30, 2011

Think you’re hip to the hottest consumer trends?

Watch yourself, now everyone else can too

November 23, 2011

There was a time that if you wanted to stand naked on your patio, only the guy with the binoculars across the street would catch you in the act.

Can’t buy me love but it can get me an old tooth

November 09, 2011

The world is now crazier than anything John Lennon could imagine when he wrote that song.

My protest will last longer than Kim’s marriage

November 02, 2011

That’s it. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.

Ward off the common survey

October 26, 2011

It’s confirmed. The world is a dirty, messy, germ-infested place.

To infinity and beyond

October 19, 2011

Space really is the final frontier — for tourists at least.

What will germinate in your capsule?

October 12, 2011

What else is out there buried in a box from the past that could have interesting consequences?

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong

October 05, 2011

There’s a new protest movement in town. It’s called Occupy Wall Street

A torture apologist and a traffic obstructor

September 28, 2011

Yesterday, at the end of a long day of strategic communications, the usual route home was blocked by police barriers, the sort of thing traffic reporters call a “police incident,” a long, unexplained delay leading to gridlock.

Ginger-sperm ban turning some heads

September 21, 2011

Redheads are special. I know. I’ve been married to one for 33 years come Oct. 6. They’re fiery, fierce, funny and fantastic.

100 acres of infidelity

September 14, 2011

Quick quiz: Who is the most admired person on Earth, living or dead?

Awaiting Earth's inevitable hiccup

September 12, 2011

Did the earth move?

The kids are alright

September 07, 2011

As you wave goodbye to the kids today, staggering under the weight of their 30-pound backpacks, stuffed with textbooks, iPads/ iPhones/iPods, healthy lunches (which they’ll pitch as soon as you’re not looking and head for the nearest cheeseburger), gym clothes (which are clean for at least one day this year), and various waiver forms, consider the investment that’s climbing out of the SUV.