To the employers and managers and supervisors who have all told me that my (chronic) mental health issues and the treatment thereof is having a negative effect on my job and their perception of me in some way: go fuck yourself. To anyone who is suffering through our broken (mental) health care system, who is having their worth determined and livelihood threatened by how many sick days it takes for you to feel stable and healthy and whole: I love you. I believe you. Keep fighting. These people may not understand what is happening to you but there are countless others out there who do and we need to stand together and support each other. As I type this, I am in tears, fearful that one more sick day to see a psychiatrist or a GP or to adjust to a new medication will mean the end of gainful employment for myself, I draw strength from all of your efforts simply to survive. –Clever, witty signature

To the driver who shouted "Not a crosswalk" at me as I crossed Almon in a legal unmarked crosswalk: which kindergarten gave you your license? If you don't know basic rules of the road, stay the fuck at home. —Jesus H. Christ

1)  A small, inadequate, and deflated penis is no fun—ever!
2) Your pea-sized brain is an even worse feature than your penis.
–Already Gone

I think most of us can agree that twinning major highways in Nova Scotia, especially the 103, is beneficial. If you disagree you’re either a closed-minded moron or you’re dismissing their worth as a ruse to hide your aversion to any associated price tag, which I will get to later. Case and point: the Cobequid Pass. There were close to 50 deaths in the 10 years prior to its twinning vs. 3 in the 19 years after construction. This lower death rate is not a coincidence. And then you had the ill-informed audacity to say that twinning “does not work” without any credible evidence to back up your sorry excuse for an argument. Sure there will still be accidents on twinned highways but most of them are single car rollovers. Fatalities and critical injuries are what matters. Yes, distracted driving and human error are usually the cause of accidents but highway design is also a contributing factor in the case of head on collisions. If two cars driving 100 KPH collide with each other, the impact speed is doubled and you’re not going to walk away from it. You don’t need to be Isaac Newton to understand this. There is no disputing that twinning almost nullifies the occurrence of head on collisions and significantly decreases fatalities. If there is a Speedy Gonzales on the road, I would feel much better about him or her going by me than towards me. We can toughen laws and educate people until we are blue in the face but there will ALWAYS be people who choose to drive while impaired or distracted and just plain make stupid decisions. Not to mention the fact that even if you have adjusted your driving for adverse weather conditions, accidents can still happen and there is not a lot of room for error on an undivided highway. This utopian world you’re dreaming of where we only have law abiding, attentive drivers on the road will NEVER exist. You know what else will always be a reality? A lot of things aren’t free! Highway twinning costs BILLIONS of dollars and this penniless province just doesn’t have that lying around. It has to come from either increased taxes or tolls. You have no business throwing out the poor card while you buy Starbucks (or Roll up the Rims), lottery tickets, smoke cigarettes or pay interest on your credit card. If you do any of these things and complain about tolls, you’re the epitome of a hypocrite. If paying $8.00 (maximum) per round trip is really going to put you in the hole, you need to get your shit together. There are likely some adjustments you can make to your fiscal mismanagement to allow for tolls in your budget. If there aren’t, you probably shouldn’t be driving at all because that means you’re not in a position to pay for any unexpected car bills. As for me, I’m more than happy to spend money on a toll for a well-maintained highway that is safer to drive on (and I just might sip on a Starbucks while I’m doing it!) because I see the value in them. I don’t want to die because a car is coming towards me due to driver error or circumstances that may be out of their control. Your cheap ass can always take the back road while you risk beating your car to pieces and ending up getting a nasty car bill you can’t afford. —The Toll Troll

The time has come for revolution! I issue this call of arms brothers and sisters. We need to rise up against this menace, this tyranny. We need to let Bobs/Bluebell, Murphy's on the Water and anyone else who has paid for that godforsaken hold music that we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore! —Vladimir

In the spirit of African Heritage Month, I'd like to point out that many drug stores (even the high-traffic one on Spring Garden) with beauty and hair care aisles are failing Black women in this city. I have hair, and it's beautiful, too. At least once a month I forget that you forgot me, and stop in to buy hair products before I remember half-way up the stairs that Black hair doesn't exist in this store. The others aren't better: stop forcing me to vacillate between the diaper isle and the hair care aisle when I need hair products. My hair exists, and it doesn't belong with the diapers. —Like you don’t need my money

I'd like to think I don't bitch a lot but I've just gotta get this one out. I've noticed this winter during a storm, at night, on the highway,  a lot of drivers going cautiously slowly with their four-way flashers on. Meanwhile everyone else is driving cautiously slow. Because it's a storm. And all those bright flashing lights are doing is blinding me and giving me a headache to go along with an already stressful drive. It's not as tho your car is breaking down and going 30 and I'm coming up behind you at 120. Which is what I understood those hazard lights to be useful for. Please people SHUT ‘EM OFF and use them with common sense. —Blinded by the light

You threw me, your assistant and several others the past few years under the bus and you think we don't know and you still pretend to be our friend? Staff laughs at you and calls you their entertainment. Lose our numbers we don't want to hear from you ever again. Everyone quits to get away from you! —You’re a bag of chips

You wanted to live in my house and drive my car. You wanted my husband. I gave him to you and thank you for that! You also tried to take my kids. We all know you have a serious girl crush on me but you can't be me. You got the two-cent millionaire and I got the house the car and a handsome wonderful new boyfriend. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. —Karma is your opponent

I'm a vegan and feel the burden of being vegan in Halifax. I waste time shopping at many grocery stores sense not one can provide all the items I want. My favourite vegan snack is usually restocked a month later after I buy them all causing me to have to shop at nearly 10 grocery stores. Then, I feel the struggle finding a girlfriend since I'm constantly rejected for how I eat. Where is a vegan to go to feel happy in Halifax? —Lonely, hungry vegan