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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2005-11-25 10:13 am

Completely irrelevant news

I've been told that today is Buy Nothing Day. I'm not normally a consumer whore or anything, but I think I will celebrate it by being one. You know, just to be contrary. Also, I've already bought a coffee -- at the Second Cup, no less! It annoys me that a lot of people think that Adbusters' notions of switching one sort of consumer capitalism to a "better" consumer capitalism is actual activism.

The magazine has very pretty pictures, though.

In other news, career criminal and whiny baby Lord Black is asking for his Canadian citizenship back. I guess maybe he shouldn't have said those nasty things about us when he renounced it in the first place. Excuse me for a sec...

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh man, I hope they give his citizenship to the poorest Haïtian refugee they can possibly find -- preferably a poor Haïtian communist refugee. Who has converted to Islam. And is gay. And drives a cab. That'd be the best thing ever.

[identity profile] frandroid.livejournal.com 2005-11-25 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
George Monbiot had an article recently about how some industrial leaders were more or less begging the government to introduce more environmental legislation; by levelling the playing field for everyone, companies don't get penalized for spending extra money on environmental measures.