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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Craft Beer Shark Jumping And Middle Class Adventurism

by Sean Orr | Martha Stewart presents: Getting creative with Welfare Challenge. Middle-class adventurism! Poverty tourism! A cheap holiday in other people’s misery!

Uh oh! I just linked to Anarchy in the UK! Am I next up for an anti-anarchist witch-hunt. I want to give the person in the picture all my money.

Speaking of money: A Liberal insider’s Shaughnessy mansion. Not sure what the context is here but what the heck, let’s all be disgusted/envious! When you’re finished with that, read this: Capitalism. How the left lost the argument. Slavoj fucking Zizek.

I don’t have any jokes about the recession because guess what? We fucking won. (That’s a Patton Oswalt reference btw)

This is relevant to my interests: Craft beer mega-plex planned for historic Salt Building. Has the craft beer movement effectively jumped the (land)shark (lager)?

Creativity ‘closely entwined with mental illness’. Not saying, just saying.

How Bullies Thrive in a Hypersexualized Kid Culture. Burkhas aren’t looking quite so ‘evil’ now, are they?

Did Anonymous Unmask the Wrong Guy in Its Hunt for the Man Who Allegedly Drove a Teen to Suicide?

Tweet of the Day c/o Liam Ford; “@WEVancouver If you ever use the word “drinkies” again (to refer to people who like to drink), I will stop reading you”. Well played, although if you knew Marcus Kaulback you’d appreciate the nuances in his tone.

The Blarney Stone? Pfft, I was going there when it was The Klondike.

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