Tag: Stealing

She wasn’t a teenager. She had teens of her own. Two daughters who went to a private Catholic school. They were a well-respected family in their community. We worked together at a government-run provincial liquor store in Canada. She was the manager’s favourite employee and always pra...

In a country without gold, silver, or even a port, salt deposits from the prehistoric sea under the alps was a precious resource for trade. People received their wages in salt. The city of Salzburg and the Salzkammergut region of the country both take their names from the so-called white gold. It...

This horrendous political trope usually cuts across racial and ethnic lines. Typically, the persons accused are nonwhite and thereby deemed less American. Sometimes this rhetorical device is played towards a third person; one time, an old conservative white lady at an Arizona Trump rally told me tha...

I’ve also seen others do this. Sometimes not expertly at all by simply copying and pasting. Sometimes in artful ways. There is nothing wrong with this. Literature, science, and art all live from building together. It’s more than a cliché: We’re all standing on the shou...