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On Political Optics & The Hilarious Tremblings Of Outraged West Siders

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“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” – Aldous Huxley.

A “fancy pants lynch mob” protests the demolition of a ‘Perfectly good’ Adera Street home. This guy live-tweeted it and it was Pulitzer-grade awesome. My personal favourite:

Dam shame: Shame on Premier Clark for playing Site C politics at Bill Bennett’s funeral. Rafe mad:

If standing against pipelines, Site C, depletion of our fish resources, ruination of our agricultural land and so on is disloyal, may I assure Premier Clark that, far from being disloyal to our beloved British Columbia, it’s to her and her damned party who would destroy the province to satisfy their own philosophy and their greedy supporters.

Stephen Rees: The case for replacing the Massey Tunnel. Stephen mad:

California is not going to be able to feed itself let alone us. We must protect the ALR and we do need better ways to get around than driving ourselves for every purpose. We know how to do that. Why does Christy Clark not understand any of this and why is she stuck in the 1950’s? And how can we make sure she never gets elected to anything again?

This is great. I barely have to do anything. More importantly, I detect a trend developing. Could it be that progressives are finally getting their shit together? Are we finally angry enough to show it?

Let them eat cake…in jail: ‘Why are you complaining?’: Coleman calls out homeless Victoria campers for rejecting housing offer. Someone please explain structuralism to this tool.

Meanwhile, this house was not demolished. It was just flipped. 3 times. And not by the owner: The real estate technique fuelling Vancouver’s housing market. But yeah, the market will sort itself out, right?

Meanwhile, the man with the most expensive house in the most expensive real estate market in Canada complains about the media: Chip Wilson Rips Reporter For Being On ‘Jewish Standard Time,’ Tells Media It’s Not News. “The media needs to create news in order to manufacture media hits, and sell ads. I understand and I am sympathetic”. And then Atlas Shrugged.

Another non-news story? BCIT journalism students suspended from school magazine after leaking e-mail online. “Post oversees the student magazine on behalf of the BCIT Student Association and in the e-mail suggested the peeping tom incident was a ‘non-news story’ and asked editors to focus on other matters”. Right, so focus on the issues that matter, not issues that are related to your safety…

Like a picture of a sex-assault victim in a bikini: Toronto Media Fights for Ghomeshi Complainant’s Bikini Photo, Shows Why Everyone Hates the Media. “It’s a world where reaching out to an alleged abuser after an assault seems to somehow diminish or disqualify the fact that the abuse took place”.

Good news of the day: Mother Canada project won’t go ahead in Cape Breton park.

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