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On Tasty Keslerbier And The Fringe Benefits of Global Warming

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by Sean Orr | Jon Ferry, who apparently doesn’t believe in global warming, touts the benefits of global warming, which he doesn’t believe in. No one talks about good warming news. He doesn’t mention all the free jellyfish we’re going to get from our highly acidic oceans. FREE JELLYS!

Nobody likes a rat: Mike Duffy claims Harper told him to repay expense money. But daddy, you said I could go to the foreign country all expenses paid. You said I could claim that house I didn’t live in. I’m telling mommy!

Maybe Timmy’s should take the reins. Tim Hortons key to our nationhood, not monarchy, say younger Canadians in poll. My country ’tis of doughnuts. [facepalm]

Angry commuter wants a refund for Tuesday’s SkyTrain shutdown. I want a refund for three decades of bad service. Oh wait, I never pay for the Skytrain, so never you mind.

New drug called Bath Salts rears its ugly head. New? No wonder you people are losing both the war on drugs and the war on newspapers. From Wikipedia: “Synthetic cathinones such as mephedrone which are chemically similar to cathinone, naturally found in the plant Catha edulis (khat), were first synthesised in the 1910s”.

Vancouver police arrest man at gas station and uncover ‘gasoline scheme’. It is unknown wether or not the man goes by the name of Mad Max.

Twilight of the Pundits. “In the age of Twitter, have journalists become too dependent on quote-for-rent academic pundits”? Who are these so-called “journalists” that you speak of?

No suspension for Frans Nielsen headshot on Kesler, because Kesler dove. Kesler’s next promotional adventure should be to make a smooth tasting kolsch called Keslerbier. Keslerbier- It goes down easy.

Photo courtesy of Scout Flickr Pool contributor eych-you-bee-ee-ahr-tee.

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