by Sean Orr | The semantics of war: RCAF seeking kinder, gentler bombs. Does that mean that the bombs we are currently using are designed to kill as many unintended targets as possible? Did they become too smart and go through an existential crisis on the nature of their being and come out of it bitter and angry? Do they require therapy?

Why the playoffs in Vancouver will turn sour: TransLink may close stations if playoffs in Vancouver turn sour. On one hand, yeah totally, just close the entire suburbs. But on the other: fence off Granville Strip, hire security, ID everyone coming in, allow each bar to serve everyone in the street. #socrazyitjustmightwork

Speaking of Granville Strip: Clubbing in Vancouver. “There’s little adventure or even musical variety to be had in a traditional ‘nightclub’ in Vancouver”. Meanwhile, I’d rather party wherever this guy was partying: Arrested Drunk Man Sings “Bohemian Rhapsody” In Its Entirety In Back Of RCMP Police Car

A peek into my stupid brain: Homeless count sweeps Vancouver. You see? I didn’t see the “o” in ‘count’. And I was like, “good for her!”

And another: Aging boomers who can’t drive will be trapped in unwalkable cities of their own making. Wow. Weird. That’s a lot like this Needs lyric: “While the so called well-adjusted are trapped inside the prisons that they made for themselves.”

This Past Tense Vancouver post about Project 200 brings to mind the narrow, white saviour industrial complex of shiny, happy blogs like Vancity Vuzz lamenting that “Chinatown has been neglected for too long” (as though they had anything whatsoever to do with it either way).

Chevy Revolt: Young people terrifying auto makers!. Yeah, well…maybe you shouldn’t have promised all of us jetpacks.

Peak Education: University of Calgary opens the Enbridge Centre of Corporate Sustainability, satire dies.

Speaking of satire: Suck it up, CBC. You should have seen this coming. “CBC represents the Canada that is ‘a northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term,’ as Our Glorious Leader famously described Canada in a 1997 speech”. Hey, does anyone want to start a United Empire Loyalist Club Club for fun? God save the Queen!