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This post was originally published over at the fraccers site. During the housecleaning process, fracas initially planned to simply move the post to the archives of the fracas blog, but after reading it again, decided perhaps the conversation was still relevant. If you (as a reader of the fraccers site) have already read this post and remember it from 2008, please do feel free to just click away now; I won’t be offended. If you haven’t though, please go on… and please do feel free to create a... Read Full Story

Fracas feels horrible. It’s been three whole years since I’ve celebrated Pi Day , and if you can believe it… I almost let this one go by with nary a mention also! I guess we know who’s not getting a piece tonight! Of PIE that is. I did have grandiose plans of making a pi pie, but alas… it was not to be; fracas is terribly busy with at least 6348 things to do today. It could be worse though… I could be dealing with the kind of ‘pi’ day the poor soul (who wrote the note in the first... Read Full Story

I really don’t know why everyone complains about Lent so much. Fracas has no problem with the whole sacrificing thing. I mean… I don’t even like cheezburgers; giving them up will be a snap! Now, had kitteh here mentioned chocolate or coffee , well… this post would be a tad less chipper. At any rate, I don’t expect to have any trouble going 40 days without a cheezburger. How about you? Do you observe a Lenten sacrifice? What’s yours going to be? Read Full Story

We Pray for Children Ina J. Hughs We pray for children who sneak popsicles before supper, who erase holes in math workbooks, who can never find their shoes. And we pray, for those who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire, who can’t bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers, who never “counted potatoes,” who are born in places where we wouldn’t be caught dead, who never go to the circus, who live in an X-rated world. We pray for children who bring us sticky... Read Full Story

[Some of you may have seen this before. I've re-posted it because every now and then... we all (some more than others) need a little reminder about email safety....] Not too long ago, there was a spell where I repeatedly received virus-laden email with titles such as ‘you look really stupid fracas’ or ‘fracas is a moron’ and the like. The mail consisted of nothing but a link to click on, and noting the .exe extension, it was easy to tell it was a virus. Obviously the creators of such... Read Full Story

Yesterday, I chided myself for poking fun at Charlie Sheen to a friend.  After all, even though this blog has, over the last four years, often been the home of much poking of the fun at celebrities and starlet-hopefuls who engage in everything from going out sans panties and ‘accidentally’ releasing naked photos that were ‘securely locked down’ in the cellphones, to making home-porn they’re sure their ex would never sell, and the old stand-by of getting caught drinking and driving… fracas has... Read Full Story

[This post was originally posted over at fraccers, and cleaning house over there has been a bit of stroll down memory lane, sometimes enjoyable, other times not. I've found this, and wanted to share it with you here. It's really a remarkable little tool that provides some serious entertainment for folks (like me) who are easily entertained with silly things. Perhaps you'll agree. Read on... We’ve all seen that one where there’s a paragraph that’s all jumbled up and yet, we’re still able to... Read Full Story

[This post was moved to the fracas blog from its original home at the fraccers site.] With summer on the horizon, you’ve wondered what would become the next fad in swimwear, haven’t you? Well, fracas has found it, and it has a decidedly Canadian flavour to it! I’ve dubbed it the Bacini … and ‘m claiming it for Canadians because unlike the bacon bra made of strip (side) bacon , this one… baby’s got back! Canadian back … as in bacon… you know… back bacon, which is otherwise known to non... Read Full Story

More specifically, Old Man Winter is stupid. Those of you who’ve read the fracas blog for some time, will remember that I had a tiff with him in the past, so this shouldn’t surprise you. I tried divorce , and when that didn’t even make him go away, I tried my best to hire a hit man . It was all for naught, because here once again, am I making a very valid point about the fact it is March 1st and I am freezing my fraccy parts off. March 1st! You know… the time in the year when a person... Read Full Story

Should you throw the baby out with the bath water? Parenting can be so confusing, can’t it? One ‘expert’ says one thing and then another ‘expert’ says the opposite. Fracas would never really tell you to let the internet parent for you, but here are a few interesting points of view gathered from around the interweave, regarding some common parenting issues. Why not take a minute to share your opinions with everyone here? One View: A Spanking Might Beat Ritalin Nancy Shute’s interview with... Read Full Story