Christmas Vulture

I find now that I don't participate in Christmas in any way, shape, or form - I kind of enjoy it.

Existential Wednesday

I'm starting to forget what life was like before Donald Trump sucked the point out of it.

Existential Monday

If the internet had been around when I was a kid, I'd have not done a lot of the things that I did.

But what does it matter one way or another when it's around for me now.

Although I don't like how stressful it feels when it goes down.

At first.

Then I start hoping it never gets back up.

"back up".

Get it?

I'm here forever.

Try the veal.

Telecommunications Litterbugs

Why isn't there a regulation compelling Rogers and Bell to remove their satellite dishes and cables from both private and public property and dispose of them responsibly when their services are cancelled? It seems crazily irresponsible to me that they're allowed to just leave their crap everywhere like it's nothing to do with them. Smarten up, regulators. Make those litterbugs clean up after themselves, please.

Taxes?! We don need no stinkin' taxes!

The problem with Ottawa is that Ottawans are allowed to drive their private vehicles into its downtown.

There are even a couple of hired hands with a Stop Sign stopping pedestrians on the Queen Street sidewalk so that greenhouse gas emitters can turn into the Rideau Club parking lot.

And if we weren't such cheapskates we'd have a great light rail system instead of whatever OC Transpo slapped into place.

Size Matters

Just a reminder that Alberta has a population of about $4M, half of which is from Ontario and Newfoundland.

Would You Like Environmental Destruction With That?

The most enjoyable burger I've ever had is the A&W plant-based burger at Place d'Orleans.

(It was an excursion to Fabricland, which is located a few long blocks away on the main drag of Orleans. And if you've never been to Orleans, don't go. It's the most alienating place on Earth.)

That even includes the one made by a server who went from building it to handling cash and back again to building it - all the while wearing the same pair of plastic gloves.

Oh wait... that was a Harvey's.

Whatever, no wonder we're drowning in plastic.

To Quote Stephen Harper

“you won't recognize Canada when I'm done with it”

Oh the teenage boy level arrogance, eh?

As I say as often as I can, we still don't know who funded Stephen Harper's leadership campaign.

But after we voted the bum out he went on to head up an international cabal that supports the election of men who seem a lot like more like white Christian nationalist Vladimir Putin than they don't.

Whither Our Legions

I didn't hear you denounce Don Cherry's racism so maybe get on that.

Perhaps a spokesthingy for our armed forces could do the same.

Also hockey heroes. Speak up, please.

We've got a big ol' racism problem here in Canada and you lot need to start speaking up about it and addressing it. Do it now before the racists think you've got their backs instead of your country's.

Thank you once again for your service.

Don Cherry Proud

Jeezus hockey is racist, eh?

Also, legions, as we politely ignore.

While I'm at it, our armed forces could use a good values testing, too.

The McLeod Institute

I wonder when aged infrastructure not kept up by the tax cut generations of which I am a member, plus the effects of climate change due to capitalism, will render private property ownership so risky, financially, that our governments will have to pay us to buy it.

No Reason for Short People

Not on the Otrain.

Why?

Because there are no straps for women of average height (so most women and more than a few men) to hold onto for stability.

And yet there's a brand new station at Cyrville - and the train makes a stop - even though no one ever got on or off the bus at Cyrville. And no one will ever get on or off the Otrain at Cyrville, either.

No woman, anyway.

Meanwhile, light rail stops a whole suburb before where all the eastbound traffic into downtown comes from.

Also, there's a point in the ride east where the train really strains to navigate a curve. It's unnerving now so imagine how unnerving it will be in an ice storm.

Oh, and the cars smell. Sure, Mayor Watson will say it's us, but it isn't. It's the cars. They smell.

Light Rail Meets Dark Shadows

This light trail thing in Ottawa is crazy.

Who knew catching up to Calgary circa 1981 would be so hard?

Not the smart money, that's for sure.