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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Things Falling Apart And The Art Of Cutting And Pasting

by Sean OrrCharles Demers on the departure of the transportation minister.

Yeats on BC politics: “Kevin Falcon cannot hear the falconer/Things fall apart/the right-of-centre cannot hold”

Boom! Bust! Bear! Bull! Canadians more optimistic about job security this Labour Day, BMO study finds. Until the next manufactured financial crisis ‘surprises us’.

Frontier Psychology: We must keep exploring the far reaches of Canada. Because God granted us dominion over the earth. Duh. On yonder!

Like the pointed spires that also rise in adoration of heaven: Ten tallest buildings in Metro Vancouver. “But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

J-Wow: How much do journalists make? Probably not nearly enough, but still way more than the bloggers who make fun of them.

Mark Milke: Jack Layton was popular, but his ideas were awful. Awful like Pol Pot or awful like slightly protectionist and populist? Awful like Ann Coulter or awful like a centre-left Canadian politician?

Tweet of the Day comes from The Province: So, this is gross: Human brains, hearts of 100+ people found in US storage locker sold at auction. Gross? Do they have a 17 year-old running their twitter?

via Openfile: Convicted Stanley Cup rioter Emmanuel Alviar, a 20-year-old from Surrey, submitted near-identical letters to Mayor Gregor Robertson and Police Chief Jim Chu, the Vancouver Province reports. All that was changed was the name at the top. Funny. I thought was how Postmedia shares articles between the Sun and the Province?

The news is a joke: ‘Breakfast burrito bandits’ hit Esquimalt McDonald’s. Oh, the weird and wacky world of the West Coast! We’re just so zany! *barf

A taste of one’s own medicine. BC nurses concerned about choice of flu shots or masks. Oh sure, they’ll give you the needle and “oh, it’s just a little prick” and all that stuff but god forbid if they should roll up their sleeves and make a fist.

Now that the Red Gate is a snakehead training center, the secret loft space across the street at 151 is being evicted. Come party one last time.

Bonus: Eating Out premiere.

There are 7 comments

  1. Oh glass half empty merchant, would it not be better to be uni polar? Big pharma appears to have your brain set on sad 🙁

  2. pig pharma more like it ThomaV, got your jowls and snouts in a trough of plenty? sad faces and a tendency to wisecrack don’t a Rooney make

  3. Yeah because no writers who have a propensity for the melancholic have ever written anything of note. Poe me.

  4. “Big pharma appears to have your brain set on sad”

    why moderate comments if direct and insulting attacks are permitted? how does it contribute to the dialogue when it is mocking the writer’s mental illness just to spite? pretty gross.

  5. Well I can’t answer for Andrew or Scout Magazine but I think all comments are valuable, in this case because it proves that ad hominem is the last resort of scoundrels.

  6. Merely provoking the provocateur; Sean knows this game well.

    “Fine, I’ll just have to break your fucking fingers you piece of shit. I’m deadly serious.”

    Threatening violence is, in fact, “the last resort of scoundrels”.

  7. Way to remove all context from that quote. This was in response to a disgusting troll who made fun of my recently deceased friend. I stand by it.

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