Reading the news

I haven't been posting about the ongoing crisis in Gaza, mostly because I've been too much in my own little world to add commentary more in depth than, "Man, that's awful."

I don't think that this is awful, though. I think it's a sign that human beings can't be kept in cages, be they the size of a prison cell or the size of a bantustan. It's a sign that no one will tolerate being deprived of the necessities of life—by their own pseudo-government or an occupying power—forever. It's going to end badly, of course. It always does.

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I've also been reading Maclean's more than I usually do, owing to an eye doctor appointment and a dentist appointment. Hence, I have learned some interesting "facts": The UN made up statistics on Canadian child poverty because, I suppose, it doesn't like Canada; the occupation of Afghanistan is going swell*; European textbooks are a communist plot for stating, among other things, that most start-up businesses are doomed to failure; you too can get rich off global warming; fibromyalgia patients are faking it; and giving Ritalin to kids increases their academic prowess in a way similar to how steroids improve athletic ability.

The latter two tidbits were from the same Barbara Amiel column. (She's also written some hilarious woe is me columns lately.) Can someone tell me why this woman is still allowed to write—or more to the point, why anyone still bothers to publish her incoherent ramblings? Unfortunately, the deeply offensive article where she shat all over people with chronic pain disorders for no apparent reason isn't online, but trust me, it's horrible. Of course, the only letters that get published in Maclean's nowadays are "your coverage of the occupation war Holy Mission in Afghanistan isn't positive enough!" and "OUR COPS ARE TOPS!" Sickening.

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In other news, the bear's preferred environment for defecating is a forested area.

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Vindication re: my reasons for being vegetarian.

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Evo-Psych finally investigates something useful.

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Have they actually admitted that we're in a recession now?

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* It isn't.

Reading the news

I haven't been posting about the ongoing crisis in Gaza, mostly because I've been too much in my own little world to add commentary more in depth than, "Man, that's awful."

I don't think that this is awful, though. I think it's a sign that human beings can't be kept in cages, be they the size of a prison cell or the size of a bantustan. It's a sign that no one will tolerate being deprived of the necessities of life—by their own pseudo-government or an occupying power—forever. It's going to end badly, of course. It always does.

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I've also been reading Maclean's more than I usually do, owing to an eye doctor appointment and a dentist appointment. Hence, I have learned some interesting "facts": The UN made up statistics on Canadian child poverty because, I suppose, it doesn't like Canada; the occupation of Afghanistan is going swell*; European textbooks are a communist plot for stating, among other things, that most start-up businesses are doomed to failure; you too can get rich off global warming; fibromyalgia patients are faking it; and giving Ritalin to kids increases their academic prowess in a way similar to how steroids improve athletic ability.

The latter two tidbits were from the same Barbara Amiel column. (She's also written some hilarious woe is me columns lately.) Can someone tell me why this woman is still allowed to write—or more to the point, why anyone still bothers to publish her incoherent ramblings? Unfortunately, the deeply offensive article where she shat all over people with chronic pain disorders for no apparent reason isn't online, but trust me, it's horrible. Of course, the only letters that get published in Maclean's nowadays are "your coverage of the occupation war Holy Mission in Afghanistan isn't positive enough!" and "OUR COPS ARE TOPS!" Sickening.

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In other news, the bear's preferred environment for defecating is a forested area.

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Vindication re: my reasons for being vegetarian.

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Evo-Psych finally investigates something useful.

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Have they actually admitted that we're in a recession now?

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* It isn't.