A Dark Day For The Toronto Star

[scribblet]

This is funny, also note the comments about Heather M.

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/dark+Toronto+Star/3732257/story.html#ixzz13bBjB0N9

Having decided that personal attacks were fair game, the Star unloaded columnist Heather Mallick on Ford. Here's what she had to say:

"Voting for Ford is like sleeping with someone to get revenge on your spouse. It seems like a good idea at closing time, which is what an election is. Last call, and you neck down your last shot of good cold vodka. 'Sure, whatever,' is what you say to everything said to you. 'I hate streetcars too!' And you leave the lounge of the Empire Hotel on the arm of some big guy. It is Oct. 26, the day after the election, and you wake in a hard, unfamiliar bed. Your eyeballs are congealed chip fat and your contact lenses have gone crispy. Your liver is en route somewhere. You appear to be missing a tooth. And there's something in bed next to you. It is the sweaty, beer-smelling oik from the bar last night."

Poor Heather must have been scraping off the chip fat with both hands Tuesday. Not only is last night's oik in her bed, but the Viagra is just kicking in.

[August1991]

I liked this quote from McParland'd column - quoting James Travers of the Toronto Star:

"Sudden swings that sweep away the status quo are nothing new. But as World War II reminds, the results are often catastrophic."

WWII? Well, how about "Dewey Defeats Truman"? I don't know if that example represents the status quo but it surely represents how elites can be out of touch with common people. IOW, democracy is fun because it sometimes shows so-called elites that they don't know "their people".

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The big change in the past 15 years or so is the Internet. Obama was a product of teh Internet but from what I can gather, Ford was not. His election is just a case of teh MSM being wrong, as it sometimes is.

Outside of Toronto however, the Internet and Ford are another story. Like Radio Free Europe and the BBC World Service once did for people behind the Iron Curtain, the Internet now emboldens people and makes them feel their beliefs are not wrong.

Edited October 28, 2010 by August1991