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November 24th, 2009 | 
Author: Pop quiz: how many Mounties (both regular RCMP and riot squad) does it take to escort an Owelympic torchbearer?
It’s hard to say. I couldn’t count them all. This video is from Oct 31 when the torch went through Cowichan, BC. This isn’t a dignified run like it has been in the past, it’s a freak show: a dozen motorcycle cops, three van-loads of riot police, 6 or 8 cops on mountain bikes, who knows how many police in cruisers, corporate vehicles straight out of the Santa Claus parade from hell AND six cops running with the torchbearer!
A classmate of mine carried the torch in 1988 when it went through the area and she asked me to take pictures for her. It was nothing like this. Sure, there were a few police, but there sure weren’t any rolling platforms of carnival pitch-men hawking caffeinated sugar water. Never mind the banks.
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I’d like to add a step to the thinking of all scientific researchers. Make them ask themselves this question: “Just because I can do something, should I do it?”
It might prevent some of the scary shit coming out of academia. Like this:
In a scientific development that seems ripped from the script of the 2004 movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Toronto researchers have shown they can find and selectively erase fear memories from the brains of mice.
Perfect. So now, not only can they pinpoint the part of the brain that stores a particular memory, then can reach in there with Liquid Paper and blot it out. But, they’re just following this line of research for the good of mankind: Read the rest of this entry »
Oh. my aching sides … I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. I never had the Chinese government pegged for a bunch of comedians, but they are.
Periodically, I pick up The Epoch Times at lunch time. It’s a multi-national newspaper/news organization founded by practitioners of Falun Gong in 2000. Originally used a primarily an Anti-Chinese government propaganda paper, it’s progressed into quite a decent newspaper. In an age of lazy-ass reporting, that’s saying something.
Anyway, the headline on the Nov 27 – Dec 3 issue caught my eye and made me stop dead:
Axl Rose leads plot for global domination
It’s 24 years late, but 1984 has arrived on Queen’s University campus:
Your friend’s new fuchsia fedora might be hideous. But don’t call it gay, or you might get a language lesson from the conversation cops.
Students at Queen’s University who sprinkle their dialogue with an assortment of “homo” or “retarded” could find out the hard way that not everyone finds their remarks acceptable.
God, what’s next? Am I, as a departmental IT admin, going to have to start monitoring what my users do online? How long before we start turning each other in for a reward?