Our Honourable Wife-Beating, Drunk-Driving, Illiterate Mayor's rampage continues

[sabotabby]

The latest threat to All That Is Decent here in Toronto is that the Ford brothers want to cut library branches and privatize services. Given that I'm speaking to a bunch of bookish nerds on the internet, do I really need to say more? Toronto Public Library is awesome. I use it all the time. So do the vast majority of Hogtowners.

Anyway, Our Honourable Wife-Beating, Drunk-Driving Mayor's brother Doug (for those of you who don't have the good fortune to live here, Toronto has now become an oligarchy run by the Ford family), has said that there were more libraries than Tim Hortons in his area. You know that's not true even without clicking this link, right? There are more Tim Hortons than anything else anywhere you go.*

It's obvious why conservatives want to cut things like public libraries, isn't it? God forbid the masses become literate. These attacks, more than any of the others, serve to illustrate the elitism of these hockey-lovin', straight-talkin' men of the people. They don't want you to be able to read for free. They don't actually want you to be able to read at all.

Meanwhile on the provincial level, David Suzuki is stepping up against Hudak. Which is good, because everyone else seems to be giving him a pass for no reason I can fathom.

* I suspect the Fords, despite their folksy, populace pretences, are actually Starbucks drinkers. Because they hate Canada.

Comments

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

If the library quote were true, I'd be congratulating Ford. I honestly can't fathom how anybody can imagine that lots of libraries are a bad thing.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I know it probably causes you pain, but please keep it up with the Ford stories. It's horrible and fascinating at the same time. I don't read the Star or G&M regularly, but it seems Robbie and Dougie are generating at least one headline a day, each.

[monster-grrrl.livejournal.com]

I bet they drink Coffee Time or some shit like that. I can't picture either of them ordering a latté or anything like that, or saying "grande".

But maybe that's what they WANT me to think...

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I think I could guess from a Kevin Smith Q&A that there are more Tim Hortons than libraries in Toronto. ("You have as many Tim Hortons as people in Canada. What Tim Hortons is that? That's Bob's Tim Hortons.")

[poetic-pixie-13.livejournal.com]

I would like it if Rob Ford stopped trying to gut my city.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

From your mouth to Ceiling Cat's ears.