The 3 Great Scandals

OK. Here's something I find myself in absolute awe of. And that absolutely no mainstream (or otherwise) news media outlet isn't screaming themselves hoarse about. We have two scandals in Ontario where government officials are being accused of "deleting", or "destroying" government documents. One where where Mayor  Magilla Gorilla of Toronto and his team are accused of "deleting" or "destroying" government documents and emails. And another that seems like the same scandal involving  the Provincial government. I have no way of know of these documents have been purposely destroyed or maybe just lost. Meanwhile, we've recently found out, to our utmost of Orwellian horrors, that our governments are keeping databases of all our phone calls and emails!

 My question to you dear reader and most lovely government. How is that these scandals aren't being discussed together?. If we want ANY communications kept locked and retrievable FOREVER, it's GOVERNMENT communications. I'm not even one these people flying off of Airstrip ONE in the belief that the governments going to start telling me to exercise in my home with more vigor because "they can see you." But then again I've taken the time to try to understand what the program actually is, how it's used and what it's used for. I'm not happy about it. But I'm not happy about ideologically driven death-cults wanting to create a spectacular explosions whenever they get the chance either. Which brings me to my point: I don't trust the fucking government and neither do you. It's just that I trust religious fascists even less! But here's what we do then. We let the government keep their "counter-terror" data bases but we insist that there's one kept on the government too. From Federal right down to municipal. After all, it's more than fair and in my opinion it's more important for us to keep an eye on our elected officials than for them to keep an eye on us.

 While we're at it same should go for drug tests...

Clones

I can't tell you where it is that I work, but every other day I see 500 to 750 people, go in and come out of my building looking as though they all shop at the exact same store. I swear, I exaggerate only slightly! Now, I know almost nothing about fashion but am I wrong when I ask this: If it's supposed "your look," how come your clothes look like everyone else's clothes? How does one go about finding one's OWN look by shopping at the most popular stores? Why not just be done with all the lies and nonsense about "your look" and "youtube" and "myspace" and "your news " and the rest of it and simply call it OURS? In the words of Alice Cooper: "We're all Clones! All are one and one are all."

Something Old But...

I wrote this piece back in 2004. At the time I was considering becoming a free-lance journalist and still do consider it from time to time. Anyway, it was my first attempt at writing ANYTHING, at least for anyone but myself. My thanks to Toronto's Now Magazine, first for publishing it and second for keeping it alive online in their archives. I put it up here now, not just to boast( though there is that!) but also because I think there's some ideas in there ( not mine, exactly) that might be relevant today with regard to our current economic troubles and what to do about them...
Here's the link: http://www.nowtoronto.com/archive/view_issue.cfm?vol=23&num=50&year=2004

Gassault And Battery

Well, I tried to resist as long as I could but when you see something as lovely as this, work a night shift and have no one with whom you can immediately share it with, well, I guess it's time to join this thing they call the Blogosphere. (Is that right?) Anyway, here it is from the Toronto Star's website:

Man Charged With Battery After Passing Gas

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va.–A West Virginia man who police said passed gas and fanned it toward a patrolman has been charged with battery on a police officer.

As Patrolman T.E. Parsons prepared the machine, Cruz scooted his chair toward Parsons, lifted his leg and "passed gas loudly," the complaint said.

Cruz, according to complaint, then fanned the gas toward the officer.

"The gas was very odorous and created contact of an insulting or provoking nature with Patrolman Parsons," the complaint alleged।

Cruz said the officers thought the gas incident was funny when it happened and laughed about it with him.

"This is ridiculous," he said. "I could be facing time."

At first sight I thought someone had planted this on the Star's website from The Onion. But no, it apparently really happened and it's really in the news! I can't help but wonder how people in life could have had me charged with battery. Or how many counter charges I could have filed. I wonder if there's anything in Civil Code regarding this sort of thing. I could file suits against everyone from my girlfriend to people on the subway, to my father when I was 4 years old, right up to last Xmas. With the right lawyer I could quit my job and never have to work again.