by Sean Orr | Reacting to Osama bin Laden’s Death. In a paranoid and jingoistic nation, their celebration is one of semiotics. To bastardize a quote by Voltaire about God, “If bin Laden didn’t exist it would be necessary to create him”.

Clark and Eby trade jabs ahead of Wednesday’s Vancouver-Point Grey by-election. Clearly, that has to favour Eby, what with his reach advantage and all.

Gary Mason pulls a Seth Myers: Christy Clark the politician meet Christy Clark the radio host. It turns out they hate each other.

No new nuns leads to closure of sisterhood in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. You mean there isn’t one woman willing to go without sex and dress in robes to pay service to an archaic and corrupt religion run by men so that they could do charity for ungrateful and mean-spirited addicts? Try an ad on Craigslist maybe?

How religion split the federal vote. Weird. It turns out a lot of Canadian Christians hate the environment, democracy and women.

Unfortunate abbreviation alert: VPD –  There is a sex offender in your VCR. Most people own DVD players now anyways.

Fade to black: Videomatica closing its doors.