I have often felt sad over the state of The Youths. What with robots coming for their jobs and Climate Change, their future seems lacking. But by the time its obvious that their lives will be a dystopian dead-end I will myself be retired and tucked safe away in a
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: The Plague Journal, Day II
Visited The Elsy (LCBO) today. I notice that while they’re knifing each other over toilet paper at the Walmart across the parking lot, here everything is calm. People believe that Water and wipes are essential, booze some kind of peripheral benefit. These people are fools! Give it a couple of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: The Plague Journal, Day I
This evening at the local Metro I saw something resembling “panic buying”. Not quite at that point. Nobody got violent. More like the kind of lineups you see before the Superbowl or a long-weekend. Except everyone, everyone, was buying toilet paper and bottled water. Nobody was buying beer. Which doesn’t
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On The Existence of Street Pianos In Toronto Community Centers
I used to be totally against them. It was always some no-talent eight year old plinking out a ghastly version of Chopsticks and you can’t tell them they suck or STFU! because their parents will get upset and report you to the facility staff because you haven’t positively uplifted their
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: National Post Publishes Correction
BOOYAH! JOB DONE! The Natty Post corrects in response to this story: Editor’s note: In the original article, Michael Rogers intended to say “early evolutionary ancestors” instead of Neanderthals when speaking about the agricultural revolution. As well, he intended to say there’s no anthropological evidence of Type 2 diabetes, not
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: National Post Publishes Absolute Bullshit Re Beyond Meat
The absolute bullshit is this bit: “For the last million years, we’ve evolved with a very specific diet that’s been based on whole foods,” [Michael] Rogers said. “There hasn’t been a change in our diets this drastic in all of human evolution with the exception of one event in human
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Trans Mountain Pipeline Approved
…but far from built. I’ve talked about this before. My opinion is that Trudeau did the right thing by approving the pipeline. You can’t really rule this country if the entire middle bit hates your guts because you took away their one salable product. (Well, that’s an exaggeration: Sask has
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Mann Wins!!!! Frontier Centre for Public Policy FOLDS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Mann for successfully putting the boots to Winnipeg’s Frontier Centre for Public Policy. They defamed him; he fought back and won. See their grovelling apology below. Bask in their tears. Not much to say other than note the dates when the first lies were told: 2011 and
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: PCPO Budget Is Mild Stuff
I don’t like the directions taken; cutting healthcare spending below the rate of inflation, and etc. But this government in this budget is definitely no Mike Harris Mark II. Mind you, they’ll never meet their deficit reduction targets at this rate, but they’ve probably figured that nobody really gives a
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Doug Ford’s OHIP Changes: A Bummer, or Not?
I’m especially wondering about his plan to cut back on pain relief for colonoscopies. I’ve gone through the procedure twice. First time around they hit me with a General and I still didn’t pass out. I watched on a B&W TV screen as they maneuvered the probe up and down
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: The Fried Pork Rinds of Scarborough
Was inside the Jian Hing market at Markham and Lawrence on Family Day, looking for Filipino Pork Rinds. They have about 40 different varieties at Jian Hing. I’m not kidding, there’s a whole aisle devoted to nothing but. Filipino Pork Rinds are basically deep-fried pig-skin; you can get them either “fat
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Flying Today
Horrible behavior but it wouldn’t have happened 50 yrs ago because everyone would have had enough leg room. I flew Air Canada Rouge (@AirCanadaRouge) in 2018 and it was like being crew on a WWI submarine. Something has to change.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Toronto The Unready
WTF happened? Did the dispatcher pass out just before the storm hit? Did the plow-guy bust a leg trying to smuggle a hooker into the barracks through a back window? Or did they stop at VP and say Fuck it its Scarborough lets turn around and plow The Bridle Path
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Dr. Jordan Peterson: The True And Real Story
He’s a con artist. He’s got a book, he’s got a speaking tour, and when’s he’s not flogging the book he’s flogging his daughter’s all meat diet to get his army of fan-boys Manly for the next battle in the Culture Wars. Real intellectuals don’t do that kind of thing. Yes
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Stephen Miller and Glue Eating
There has been much ridicule directed at Trump adviser Stephen Miller for an alleged childhood habit of drying glue on his arm, and then eating it . Obviously, I disagree with the guy’s politics but many people don’t realize that glue is just full of glucose (sugar), and therefore mildly sweet in
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Doug Ford Shits The Bed
And its not just the nation as a whole that thinks he’s a right douche-bag. It’s here in Ontario: In Ontario Doug Ford is 24% positive – 51% negative (-27). Once a star, Doug Ford is now a case. It happens to all leaders, but as it ever happened as
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Corbella Column Pulled
This morning The Calgary Herald published a column by Licia Corbella, entitled “Family of jailed Saudi blogger angry over Trudeau”. In it Corbella criticized government’s twitter diplomacy efforts in the Raif Badawi case, directly quoting members of the man’s family. As you will note by clicking through the link above,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: Gulls Before A Storm
So the wife and I spent our evening on the balcony of our condo unit drinking a bottle of wine. We noticed a flock of gulls in the air, surfing the turbulence in advance of a line of storm clouds. These were the same gulls that usually inhabit the roof
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ontario Election Leadership Debate Analysis
I didn’t watch it. I was eating wings in my favorite wings place watching a hockey game. But I was checking my twitter feed occasionally, and this is what I gleaned from it. 1) Kathleen Wynne’s opening pitch speech was good. Something about yeah you hate me but you like
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Canada On Pipelines
” B.C. does not have the power to veto a pipeline, but the poll suggests a majority of Canadians feel the provinces should have the ability to stop a pipeline project if they don’t like it.” From the CBC poll — Frank Graves (@VoiceOfFranky) April 13, 2018
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