by Sean Orr | Sorry for my short absence. Every year around this time I become inexplicably depressed.

Despite the fact that the VPD refused to arrest Dick Cheney (going as far as to push protesters so guests to the function could slip in), they proved that they were not adverse to roughing up American celebrities by beating up some skinny actor dude.

Sore winners: Facebook Aims to Kill One of Its Largest BC Groups. Dude, you won. Get over it. But no: “Facebook’s bloody-minded disregard for its users that’s forcing many to bail out of the giant social network”. That’s exactly what you should do then.

Doing his bit to shatter the illusion that his team are a bunch of gutless ****s, Vancouver Canuck Ryan Kesler chooses to pose nude for ESPN magazine. I’m totally not even going to stare at the pictures for, like, 10 minutes.

I really don’t want to take away from this tragedy, which is why I usually stay away from crime, but why does News1130 need to tell us that a recently murdered woman “could even pull off brightly covered socks and sandals”. I just don’t know why I need to know that.

Vancouver advocacy group creates ‘Yimby’ manual. Yes In My Back Yard, unless the building happens to have a fancy restaurant in it and the backyard is the DTES.

Tweet of the day: Charlie Demers (duh), “If Harper pulls the RCMP out of BC, can we make sure the new guys aren’t as terrified of immigrants with staplers?”

Sign the server wage petition.

Kelowna man launches hunger strike over U.S. apples. How do you like them apples? Oh, I guess not very much. Since, well…since you’re not even eating. My mistake.