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Scout Intelligence Briefs #142

Losing Jobs

Slate on why Steve Jobs’ absence from MacWorld due to a hormone imbalance meant that it was bound to suck. And when hackers got into MacWorld’s livestream, throwing up text that read “Steve Jobs Has Died”, I suppose it got even lamer.

Fireside Tweets

The Courier follows Mayor Gregor Robertson on Twitter.

“Spent much of the weekend focused on what more to do about the snow and related chaos.”

“doing late night push-ups and luge exercises. Just in case.”

“can’t wait to bike in the snow”

“just got my fix of obscure Stompin’ Tom tunes”

What’s weirder, having a mayor tweeting or a paper writing a story about it?

Sundin Watch

It looks like the 6’5 230lb Swedish centerman is going to play tonight against the Oilers. The anticipation is so high that if he doesn’t score or get injured on his first shift, the earth will open up and swallow the city.

Litany of Sadness

The Tyee gives us plenty of bloggery options for keeping track of what’s happening in Gaza. A much better option for those wary of the corporate media teat. Pity they missed Juan Cole. Now there’s a feisty one.

Baby Steps

JZ over at Beyond Robson tells of Laneway Housing. Also read Eco-Density Victory: Laneway Housing Greenlit in the Scout archive.

Awkward

The Daily Beast on the meeting.

Denied

From the seldom heard from Department of Things Canadians Should Be Ashamed About:

Kimberly Rivera, who was the first woman to refuse to serve after being deployed to Iraq in October 2006, went before the Immigration Board Wednesday to ask to stay in Canada on compassionate and humanitarian grounds.

However according to a support group, her plea to stay was denied and she was given until Jan. 27 to voluntarily leave or face deportation.

Rivera gave birth to her youngest of three children Nov. 23. The Riveras, from Mesquite, Texas, arrived in Canada in February 2007.

Michelle Robidoux, a spokeswoman with the War Resisters’ Support Campaign is concerned that if Rivera is deported and jailed, she will be separated from her newborn. She said her other two kids are in Grade 1 and preschool.

Sigh.

The Face of Modern Evil

Translation: Ann Coulter is still a noxious idiot.

Fooled Me Once…

Daddy thinks his other boy is just right for the big job, too.

George H.W. Bush—that’s Bush 41, not Bush 43—wants to see his second son in the White House one day.

Bush senior, who was president from 1989 to 1993, told Fox News today that he thinks Jeb Bush could be president or a senator. Jeb Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a senator from Connecticut.

Many consider Jeb Bush, a former two-term governor of Florida, more intellectually gifted than his older brother George, who leaves office this month.

Check, please.

Really?

Douglas Coupland on how the economic downswing is not like Y2K. Shorter version: everything is cool so buy a Chrysler. Thanks Douglas!

Eat Local

The likelihood of you eating squirrels during the Next Great Depression™ (coinage!) is increasing every day. Get busy, folks. Squirrel hunting tip: they love M&Ms.

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Andrew Morrison is a west coast boy who studied history and classics at the Universities of Cape Town and Toronto after an adolescence spent riding skateboards and working in restaurants. He is the editor of Scout Magazine, the weekly food and restaurant columnist for the Westender newspaper, and a contributor to Vancouver and Western Living magazines.

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