by Sean Orr | The Province newspaper weighs in on the Isla Vista shooting and misses the point: We all should fight women-hating losers. “Most men aren’t rapists, respect women and are turned off by such talk…” The point is, the shooter wasn’t a loser by society’s shallow standards. He was good looking and owned a BMW, and all his life he had been led to believe that this combo was the secret to “acquiring” women.

Related: “The problem is that our society makes every murder/rape/harassment a special case perpetrated by a single deranged individual. The enemy is not one man; it’s ALL MEN.” – Chris Eng.

Also related: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.

Engage tha muthafuckin’ base, yo: To win, Stephen Harper needs to bring in a new abortion law. Is this reverse psychology? Or is Alex Tsakumis totally just winging it?

Breaking: Stephen Harper starts angst-ridden screamo band! Stephen Harper prone to fits of rage and growing increasingly isolated. Now he knows what BC feels like. Now he knows what Bart Simpson feels like?

Neo-post-colonialism: Turks and Caicos premier talks tourism with Stephen Harper. “Canada needs a Hawaii…” Yeah, just without all that messy American-style imperialism.

I saw this little nugget buried in The Province the other day: Feds relax rules on how BC politicians can spend $2.76 billion of gas tax money. Cool, now local politicians can’t complain about anything ever again! Except, of course, housing the homeless and whatnot, but who cares about that?! Subway to UBC!

What happened to Vancouver’s civic left? I believe I can answer this question with an art show.

But also this: Who’s Lobbying in Surrey? “Vancouver, the biggest city in the province, has been silent on the concept of a lobbyist registry…” We don’t even get to see the visitor sign-in sheets.

I blame the Fraser Institute (as per usual): Letter from B.C. teacher to Christy Clark goes viral. I don’t think The Sun really understands what “going viral” means yet but that’s ok. It’s a very good letter. Also, I’m guessing Hamish Clark’s class doesn’t look like this.

Gambier as a gambit: Government sets logging sights on ‘precious jewel’ of BC forests. Of course, it would probably be the side that you can’t see from the Sea to Sky. In that case it would end up looking like one of those adorable shorn nape undercuts that the girls are loving so much nowadays. So current!

NIMBY Narc: East Vancouver neighbourhood plastered with posters imploring woman to ‘stop selling weed to our kids’. Man, that’s nothing! I once bought weed off a baby.

“Upworthy” creeping into local headlines: They installed $10,000 pillars but now the City of Burnaby wants them gone. Yeah, and what happens next will blow your mind! Good thing I have Downworthy installed on my browser.

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