Entries from April 2007

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Breaking Fucking News!

Guess what?
A new study reveals that many recent college graduates in the United States of America are …
… wait for it …
Poor.
Ya think?
This is what happens when the cost of higher education rises unimpeded, at the same time as programs across the country encourage every student to attend college or university because it’s the only [...]

Friday, April 27th, 2007

What is so wrong with embracing your old whiteness?

The Globe and Mail went through a redesign this week. A complete overhaul. A remodeling. A renovation. A change for the sake of change. A super-duper makeover.
The powers that be in charge of that tomb/newsroom decided, in their infinite wisdom, that this was needed in order to get those crazy kids off of Facebook and [...]

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

This is NOT 'The World I Know'

So … rather than Marilyn Manson, NIN, Slayer and that long list of bands that I named last time because they are bands that always get named when someone goes batshit crazy and kills people … Cho Seung Hui, whose name will live on in infamy exactly the way he wanted when he pulled this [...]

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Dull losers with big dick substitutes.

I was all set to write a lovely, taunting, oh-how-I-told-you-so post about my Red Wings and their consumption of the souls of the Calgary Flames …
But then some asshole with a gun decided to wreck everyone’s day.
I don’t know much about the asshole who shot up Virginia Tech, killing more than 30 people — nobody [...]

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Being the underdog is fun …

… especially when you are somehow ranked No. 1 as well.
The Red Wings face the Calgary Flames in the playoffs, beginning Thursday. The Wings were largely written off before the season began. Without Steve Yzerman and Brendan Shanahan, riding the notoriously wonky groin of Dominik Hasek, trusting to a bunch of young kids to provide [...]

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Sportswriter idiocy hyperbole! OMFG!

I love good sports writing. When it’s done well, it can make the most meaningless of competitions ring with passion and struggle, it can lionize men who may or may not deserve it and create some of the closest things to legends we have left today.
… When it’s done well. It often isn’t.
Not only is [...]