by Sean Orr | Drunk and naked prisoner accidentally reveals hidden drugs during x-rated impersonation of Cyril Sneer. I just love that the National Post included the intro to The Raccoons. Big ups, NP.

Meanwhile, the real Cyril Sneer is our elected leader: Feds remove water protection from historic law. If you need some sort of visual impetus for this to hit home, voila.

The only difference is that Cyril Sneer never championed open government as an opposition leader: Federal Conservatives reject all-party report aimed at fixing spending-oversight rules.

The accursed share: Poverty gives way to inequality and the Great Frustration. I’ll say! Just reading the article itself was a great frustration.

Yet, as much as we use the word “inequality” to describe this problem, we really don’t understand it. Politicians on both ends of the spectrum abuse the term, and suggest unrealistic solutions…

So instead of saying “I saw this homeless guy”, next time just say that you saw someone really suffering from a systemic redistribution of wealth problem.

Make this man a monument: Chained to the Indian Act.

News headlines create risk for youth, experts say. Thank you. Stop romanticizing victimhood.

Meanwhile, The Tyee has turned into The Octogenarian Times: Why Can’t We Know What’s in Grandma’s Hospital Meal? You know what happens when tyees finish swimming upstream, right?

I can’t believe this fucking shit is still happening: Vancouver police investigating possible hate crime on Commercial Drive.

The dream of suburbia is alive in Vancouver. OK, so it’s the Vancouver in Washington, but still…

Tweet Facebook update of the day c/o Richard Hugh Thompson: “I have washed the Roxy stamp from my body but what it took from my soul I will never be rid of…”