Archive for January, 2010

lessons

16, Jan 2010

We love cheap stuff! We love it so much that we’re perfectly willing to let people in different countries (as long as they  have different coloured skin) work in places we wouldn’t even walk through – places like the ones we striked to outlaw 50 years ago, for wages that were so horrible that we [...]

convenient

13, Jan 2010

I’m enjoying the outpouring of sympathy for the natural disaster in Haiti, from the entire Western world. It’s like, sure, your country was famous for its underdeveloped infrastructure and poverty and disease, but that was your fault. An earthquake that destroys hospitals full of those HIV-riddled children we didn’t give a crap about yesterday? GET [...]

Prorogued

5, Jan 2010

The worst thing about the reporting of Harper’s prorogation is the fact that they’re calling it a “suspension.” As if they’re going to get back after the break and pick up their discarded text-books and get back to work.
It’s more like an expulsion.
Seriously, if you kid gets suspended from school she at least gets to [...]


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