Archive for April, 2008

things I learned reading the comments on cbc.ca

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

if someone complains about police conduct, they are obviously cooking up a story so that they can pursue a big lawsuit
people who won’t pay their fare on Skytrain deserve to be shot
damaging public property should get you the death penalty
the police are always right, but in cases where they aren’t, people should keep their mouths [...]

and his henchmen, the Market Forces

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Looking at the TV schedule (I check periodically to see what’s happening in the world of cartoons), I noticed that there is a newly-minted series of Spider-Man cartoons called “The Spectacular Spider-Man”, and today’s episode is titled “The Invisible Hand”. I’m guessing that is no more than a title, but that is a perfect name [...]