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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: The Toronto Star is the 99%!


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And now, the airing of grievances

“The Occupy Toronto demonstrators don’t have a coherent point? How risible,” the Toronto Star‘s Heather Mallick pronounces. As it happens, wouldn’t you know it, the Occupiers share every single one of Mallick’s complaints about modern Canada! Just ask her! They’re worried about how hard it is to get a history degree “without sinking into debt, or being told that your degree is worthless because it won’t get you hired, even though you know in your heart that a degree in anything, particularly history, will make you better able to understand, cope with, and vote against the life the 99-percenters are stuck with.” They’re upset that Canada isn’t spending taxpayer money to build a pavilion at Expo 2012 in Korea (because they’re such a worldly bunch). And, of course, they are furious that Stephen Harper “has an anti-sex social agenda to mirror his economic one, and it’s pure Tea Party,” whatever that means. (From previous Mallick columns, we’d gathered that the Prime Minister wanted all women barefoot and pregnant at all times, and then to kill themselves at menopause so as not to burden the health-care system further. The talking points seem to have changed.)

Go read and tell us if we’re wrong, but we think Mallick has set a bold new standard in nonsensical blathering. And we mean this honestly: Big kudos to the too-often-too-staid Star for printing something this random. (The Globe‘s often-catatonic comment pages could certainly take a lesson.) But this column is just a crazy, useless mess. A firm nudge in the direction of coherence is very much in order.

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