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SEAN ORR: Dearth Day And 4/20

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The good news: City’s curbside composting program starts on Earth Day. The bad news: it’s about a decade late. We’ve been shipping tonnes of garbage to Trash Creek for so long that we have to expand onto some land that some Indians think is sacred or some shit. But still, you get to feel good about saving a some coffee grinds and the occasional eggshell.

Legalize It: 420 leftovers. Proof that the Legalization movement is just an intellectual notch above Scientology. Yeah man, legalize it, despite being able to easily get enough high potency marijuana without a hassle to have a massive public smoke-in. Fucking idiots. Hey bro, I have this brilliant idea: let’s make weed twice as expensive, about a quarter of its potency, and so that you need to have a special note to buy it.

Basi-Virk trial delayed again. Oh wow, that piece of shit Campbell is going to get elected another 7 times before we have a verdict. It’s like Soviet Russia, except back then and over there you couldn’t really complain about the corruption because they’d kill you. Plus here nobody gives a shit.

There are 8 comments

  1. No, no, let’s just throw everyone in jail – for pot, for booze, for excessive curling, or maybe for bubble-gum, like they do in Singapore. Keeps the youth (and sidewalks) clean and pure that way. I’ve got stocks in for-profit-prisons, so (like Harper) stand to gain greatly from ratcheting up the police state. Oh yeah, people can smoke pot all they want (that’s what we want them to think) – how else do we pack our prisons (our for-profit prisons, ahem) with cannabis “abusers”? I LOVE privatisation! – Laughing All The Way To The Bank and My Government Police-State Job

  3. Giggle. Ask yourself what’s more puerile, one Sean Orr post or you abandoning us after nearly two years of love because of one Sean Orr post? Hopefully we’ll see you tomorrow, Thomas, cuz we love you like sunsets

  4. Ugh, I really didn’t want to get into the debate, indeed the fact that 420 monopolized both of our daily newspapers was cringeworthy enough. The risk with the legalization movement is that it basically aligns itself with libertarians aka they don’t believe in gun laws either. Even worse, on the other extreme, you have the conspiracy theorists. Grown men sitting around at the Amsterdam Cafe, espousing the theories of David Icke. But yes, of course, I am totally for the illegalization of everything. I am totally for prisons. Talk about puerile. I expected more from the commenters on Scout. Ooooh.

  6. > Giggle. Ask yourself what’s more puerile, one Sean Orr post or you
    > abandoning us after nearly two years of love because of one Sean Orr
    > post?

    Sean Orr. Hands down.

    Language like this:
    > Oh wow, that piece of shit Campbell
    is exactly why Beyond Robson became so bad for so long, and the fact that Scout had generally well written balanced info is what made it good.

    Hopefully there’s enough other content that I can ignore the Sean, but if it starts to dominate I’ve no doubt that I’ll stop reading (as I did with BR.)

  7. Yes! I am the winner! No but srsly, this is the language of my peers. This, to me, is the language of blogs. It’s first person. I am no journalist, I don’t even have a degree. But I get into some hilarious situations and have a twisted take on our suffocating media and mediocre city that has delusions of grandeur. I’ve never professed to be anything more than a sarcastic, heavily cynical, impassioned ranter that at times may be a pundit and at others just plain puerile. But that’s just my frustrations pouring out. I’m not going to write another boring policy paper, that’s what the Tyee is for. I am simply appalled at the level of ambivalence when it comes to this particular court case. It is frustrating as hell that the government can interfere and delete emails and delay and delay, all the while voters are left neutered by a long obsolete voting system, leaving Gordon Campbell to grin smugly all the way to another victory. Was it an intelligent thing for me to write? No. But it comes from anger, and that is something that my generation has been accused of lacking when it comes to politics since we were old enough to vote. If this is how I must relate, by writing garish snipes at our leaders, then so be it. This is Generation Next. We’ve been saddled with an enormous environmental debt; we have little faith in organised religion; we are voracious consumers of information; we have little trust in jurisprudence and consensus, we’re highly cynical of a political system that rewards nepotism and factionalism; we were raised on the Gulf War and Kurt Cobain, 4Chan and lolcats, Coen Brothers movies and manga. We’re the new lost generation. Old media is dying and I’m just a jerk with a blog.

  8. Legalization is also a terrible idea because it would shift the production of MJ from small independent operators (organized crime aside) to large-scale corporate entities (or worse still a crown corporation). A lot of growers are small-scale and live and contribute to BC’s many small communities throughout the interior (less police heat in Falkland BC), a region which has suffered greatly from economic decline in this province.

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