Let's Quit Blaming The Kids...

...and put the blame where it belongs: OVER INDULGENT PARENTS who shirk their responsibility because they want their kids to like them!

Stop The World...

TWITS ARE TWEETING

...Kim Kardashian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Upside...

...you don't have to put up with them physically, sponging off you prattling on about the lastest "music" and technology.

Facing Reality...

but it will stay around so Auntie Mary get's her birthday card.

Wiener Never Heard Of Photoshop?

Bike Couriers?

Jonathan Kay: The cyclo-martyrdom of Darcy Sheppard, and the real threat to bike couriers

Jonathan Kay  August 30, 2010 – 1:31 pm

 

Wojtek Arciszewski / National Post

Cyclists protest the death of Darcy Allan Sheppard in Toronto on Sept. 2, 2009.

It was a year ago tomorrow that Toronto bike courier Darcy Allan Sheppard, then 33, was killed after he initiated a violent confrontation with former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant. As we later found out, Sheppard was a rageaholic on two wheels, with a history of violent confrontations with motorists. He’d provoked Bryant by reaching into his convertible Saab and grabbing the steering wheel. Bryant, whose wife was in the passenger seat, sped off, and Sheppard was thrown to his death. Charges against Bryant, for criminal negligence and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, were withdrawn after prosecutors concluded (properly, in my opinion) that there was no reasonable prospect of conviction. Bryant’s reputation was restored (albeit belatedly) and the path was cleared for him to return, honorably, to public life.
Yet in the year since Sheppard was killed, a cadre of his mourners insist that the privileged Bryant was the beneficiary of a conspiratorial cover-up. Even some mainstream journalists have helped create a sort of victim cult around Sheppard, presenting him as a road-safety martyr in the tribalized battle between vulnerable cyclists and nasty motorists.
Witness, for instance, Jennifer Yang’s article on the front-page of the Toronto Star‘s Tuesday city section, detailing a “memorial” bike ride staged on Sunday, by the city’s bike couriers, and led by Allan Sheppard, Darcy’s adoptive father. One of the organizers was Sonia Serba, who is quoted in Yang’s piece, and helped produce a rap-music video dedicated to the idea that Bryant got off the hook only because of his wealth and connections. “Another killer is walking the streets,” the video tells us. “Only, this one doesn’t wear gang colours. He drives luxury cars, and smokes fine cigars.” (The full lyrics appear here — and though I disagree with the premise of the video, I’ll admit some of them are clever.)

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Posted in: Canada, Full Comment, Uncategorized  Tags: Toronto, Michael Bryant, Jonathan Kay, Darcy Allan Sheppard, Cycling, Road Safety, Bicycle Couriers

Porter: Confessions of an ex-warrior cyclist

Tue Aug 31 2010

Catherine Porter rides her new bike, Mary Poppins style and follows the rules.
 

Perils Of Texting...

Heidi Montag's plastic surgeon dead in car crash
... was texting before crash

...in Ontario he would of got a well deserved ticket.

Plastic surgeon to the stars Frank Ryan tweeted, posted pics just minutes before dying in car crash 

The Reality And The Result...

...of twits, facebook and indulgent parents.

Twits Tweeting Are Tomorrows Leaders...

Can we be digital Canadians?

Patrick Corrigan illustration July 28, 2010

Patrick Corrigan/Toronto Star

 

By David Crane

Wed Jul 28 2010

 

The rise of digital media poses a threat to a distinct Canadian identity.

Look Hard Enough And You Will See A Link...

 

Wireless Internet coming to parks?

Thu Jul 22 2010

Provincial Park near Grand Bend experiments with wireless so campers can stay connected while getting away from it all.

...I thought the whole thing about camping was connecting with nature not tweeting with some twit at home.

Padded panties phenom: Big butts made in Canada

Thu Jul 22 2010

Two women are the Canadian inventors of “Booty Pop," padded panties that promise to transform a droopy derriere into a bubble butt without resorting...

...bigger asses don't seem to have increased the size of the brains at the Ministry Of Natural Resources.

A Link Between These Two Cultures?

Ray Pennings

Religious faith is the civic oxygen of our social ecology

The secularizing experiment of the past 40 years has been a failure 

Alfred Hermida

We’d need to quit more than Facebook

Monday’s protest was mere symbolism – the social Web is something we’ve done to ourselves

Plastic Pocket Protectors Now Made Of Kevlar...

Leah McLaren

Zuckerpunched! Maybe those tech nerds aren't so harmless

There Is Still Time To At Least.....

...pickup the telephone!