The Antisocial Socialist

This is inevitable but no less funny for being inevitable:


Hat tip: numb3r_5ev3n.

P.S. Toronto people: Shoe protest at the American Consulate at 2 pm today. Be there for me as I'm unlikely to make it.

Oh hey, it's my lucky video day. This one is courtesy of suburbannoir, who seems to feel the same way about Christmas carols, kittens, and Communism as I do:

You're at the mall when the zombies attack.

You get:

1. One weapon
2. One song blasting from the speakers
3. One famous person to fight beside you

Okay, okay. I claim:

1. An armed mecha panda.
2. "I Can't Decide," by the Scissor Sisters.
3. Up until last night I'd say John Nada, as portrayed by Roddy Piper in the 1988 classic They Live!, but after last night, I'm going to have to go with Dennis Kucinich. Because dude, how awesome was that guy?

It might be because I enjoy (and write) fiction where villains have complex and even sympathetic motivations, but I prefer not to imagine the Bush twirling his Snidely Whiplash mustache and committing evil acts for the sake of evil. Cardboard bad guys make for uninteresting stories and even worse politics.



Except that when I read about this, I just pictured him rubbing his hands together and cackling, maniacally: "All your political processes are now belong to me."

If you blinked, you might have missed the assertion by the US Justice Department that foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food. According to Mary Mason, senior trial lawyer for the US government, Maher Arar, a Canadian who was deported to Syria and tortured, had no protection under the Constitution, even though he was being held in a Brooklyn jail.

Pay attention. This looks like another one of our civil liberties getting flushed down the toilet. The Canadian media, with the exception of the Globe and a snippet on CBC this morning, aren't talking about it very much.

On a lighter note, I went out to hear Crazy Strings, a Toronto bluegrass band, at the Silver Dollar last night. Quote of the evening, from one of the band members:

"Toronto in the summer is like being wrapped in a warm, comfy sleeping bag. That someone's peed on."

EDIT: By the way, you guys, Bush is being indicted.* Do your part by spreading the word.

* No, he's not, obviously. But it's the funniest meme I've seen in awhile.