Highest Five

Amidst these turbulent economic times, our diets are often at the mercy of our shrunken wallets.  We try to make cutbacks at the grocery store, pinching pennies by replacing name brands with no-name brands, ham with spam, and real cheese with spray cheese.  But why should our taste buds suffer, just because we can no longer afford to bring home the delicious bacon?  Are we to become vegetarians, simply because a head of lettuce is cheaper than the head of a delicious mammal? Heck no!  And with summer right around the corner, it would be a damn shame, a DAMN SHAME to watch your barbecue just sitting there, lid closed, without a single flame to make the beef patties go ‘tsssszzzzz.’ 

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You’re standing around in a forest just minding your own business when, out of nowhere, a giant muscle-bound, toothy creature with claws the size of sharpened bananas enters your personal space (which is a square acre in the woods). What do you do? What have other unsuspecting humans done when they faced their furry foes?

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Supervisors and managers are becoming increasingly aware of the strong correlation between productivity and employee morale. Studies continue to show that employees achieve their highest performance levels when morale is up, the problem is, few of those in managerial positions have adequate experience or training in leadership and interpersonal skills, which are essential to successful employee management.

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Project MK-ULTRA: The CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioural Modification

From 1953 until the early 1970’s, Project MK-ULTRA was the CIA’s code name for a mind-control research program run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. Their purpose was to study mind-control, interrogation methods and behaviour modification. In order to manipulate mental states and alter brain function, doctors administered various types of drugs such as LSD, mescaline, heroin

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They’ve got the info. You want the info. How does one get a person to give up the info, when said person simply doesn’t wanna? The following is a short guide on how to properly interrogate someone, without the use of car battery clamps or soul shattering water drips.

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Whenever I hear someone talk of gourmet food, I immediately get this mental image of a prissy French waiter named Jean-Jacques, working in some fancy restaurant in Vancouver, lifting the dome of some grandiose platter and exclaiming “VOILA!” to a paltry piece of meat, three baby carrots cut in a fancy way and an itty bitty portion of something colourful and mashed. Though I don’t doubt the effort put into this fine cuisine, all I know is that after I’ve eaten my entire meal in two to three bites, I have to head down to the nearest McDonalds and chow down on a quarter-pounder trio, with a cheeseburger on the side to actually fill my hunger. Is this just the reality of gourmet cooking? Is there simply no room for someone like me in the realms of haute cuisine? Well sorry to disappoint you Jean-Jacques, but I am not giving up that easy and what’s more, I’m going to take gourmet cooking out of the posh restaurant and bring it into my own kitchen.

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