Saturday, April 29, 2006
Woman’s world
Fred says it’s becoming a woman’s world.
Manliness certainly isn’t in demand. The women of today seem to want a metrosexual who loves to shop, helps with the housework, and never does anything that she wouldn’t want to do. He may wear an earring. Modern marriage sounds like a sort of heterosexual lesbianism. The man should be as little like a man as possible while having complementary genitals.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Gridlock queen dies
Odd I heard this news while stuck at the bottom of the Spadina Expressway stump.
Influential urban thinker and celebrated author Jane Jacobs has died at age 89. She would have been 90 next week.
I don’t celebrate people that essentially brought paralysis to a city. Christ, she didn’t even sound like she was from here.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Go directly to Sick Kids
Here’s a story that proves that if you have a sick kid and live in the GTA, you should head directly down to the place that fixes children best. I can personally attest to this.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Border Absurdity
An amusing tale of border absurdity security.
Life in border towns has always presented challenges for residents.
Clicking behavior
An interesting study in people’s mousie habits.
Points to ponder
As Fred wanders up the Ajijic Trail, he wonders if this is the life we should be living, as opposed to living on top of each other in the paved suburbs.
As you start up the hill above the village the going is steep, and loose rock slides beneath your feet, requiring care, but with increasing altitude the trail levels off a bit and runs through scruffy vegetation.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Spaztik society
The end of civilization must be near in Britain if they’re worried about
stuff like this.
Incredible how thin skinned people are today. Maybe the Muslims took
their que from the PC class who are ruining our way of life?
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Time to act
Mark says it’s time to act again Iran now, or pay a bigger price later.
That moment of ascendancy is now upon us. Or as the Daily Telegraph in London reported: “Iran’s hardline spiritual leaders have issued an unprecedented new fatwa, or holy order, sanctioning the use of atomic weapons against its enemies.”
Monday, April 10, 2006
Hatespeak
George Orwell must be rolling in his grave.
A man who shouted racist insults at Muslim worshippers outside a Cumbria mosque has been jailed for six months.
This is racism?
Damn childcare numbers
Goldstein is sick of the daycare lobby’s bleating over their lost daycare billion dollar baby.
Parents who chose to stay at home and look after their children would receive no benefit at all.
Nor would the majority of parents with children in child care who do not use institutional daycare centres, but other options such as having a relative or neighbour care for their young children, either inside or outside the family home.
No kidding on Kyoto
The most sensible thing said yet on Kyoto.
“‘Climate change is real’ is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified.
Saturday, April 8, 2006
Halton kids
Interesting read on the people of Halton’s (and I suspect most of the country) take on this annoying daycare debate.
So I was standing at the front of a Town Hall meeting a few weeks back, in Oakville, and we were talking about child care. Things were getting hot.
Friday, April 7, 2006
Take my baby
This cartoon really illustrates the whole debate. Why are women so eager to give their kids to the government? It really makes no sense, but this in effect is what the daycare lobby is telling everyone.
Is the daycare lobby really so powerful, or is it true that women would prefer to work than raise their kids?
Thursday, April 6, 2006
At the other end of the wire
If you’re into meeting new people on the internet, chances are, they look like this.
Scary, indeed.
via JWalk
One for the fathers
It’s so refreshing in this day of feminazism and courts excluding fathers to see the movie Evelyn (Buy here) ($US orders)
With a gentle tug at the heartstrings, Evelyn tells the true story of an imperfect father whose devotion brought much-needed change to rigid Irish law.
Manly, yes, but I like it too (remember the Irish Spring soap commercials?).
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Wake up Europe Book Review
Mark reviews the latest crop of “Europe is headed for the falls” books.
Wake up, Europe. It may already be too late.
Why the fall and spring riot seasons in France are signs of the coming apocalypse
Pushing the envelope
Gotta wonder how Canada Post would do with these experiments.
The USPS appears to have some collective sense of humor, and might in fact here be displaying the rudiments of organic bureaucratic intelligence.
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Child rearing, Hollywood style
Just desserts for Sharon Stone and her treatment of her kid - her movie skidded into the ditch on takeoff.
THERE’S a good reason why Sharon Stone had a first-class seat last Friday flying from New York to Los Angeles while her 9-month-old son, Laird, sat in coach with his nanny.
Christ, even her handbag flew first class.
Working girls, broken society
Alison Wolf asks why government is steering women away from child rearing, without examining the future cost to society.
Families remain central to the care of the old and sick, as well as raising the next generation, and yet our economy and society steer ever more educated women away from marriage or childbearing.
via Blog This
The weak and the poor may overtake the first world without guns or ammo, by sheer numbers. They’ll just walk in and take over the golden palaces our working people will die in.
Who’s doing the work?
As the US struggles to figure out how to kick out millions of illegals, there’s this.
As the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina receded in September, roads filled with residents leaving the city, their cars, SUVs and moving vans jammed with what they had salvaged of their lives.
But another mass movement was taking place on the other sides of the highways.
It’s interesting that the group most displaced by the latinos is the blacks.
Toronto gridlock
John Downing’s from the old school of traffic—one of the last left who knew Sam Cass, the man that started our system of efficient traffic movement in Toronto. Too bad his work was never fully completed.
There’s no good news from Toronto’s gridlock front to show that there will be an improvement to the dumb way the city mismanages traffic.
Monday, April 3, 2006
Let them go
Yet another reason to either let Quebec go (on our terms) or at least take back control of immigration from them.
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the Parti Quebecois’s favoring of francophone immigrants:
Supreme sacrifice
Just watched March of the Penguins ($US orders), and seeing the sacrifice *both* parents go through to raise their 1 chick, no human should ever complain about the sacrifice they make for their progeny.
What a blow
No drift can beat this.
A 454 cubic inch big block Chevrolet...O.K., but in a walk behind snowblower? This unit blows the snow back to where it came from!
Saturday, April 1, 2006
Results of the Great Abdication
The roosters are coming home to roost for absentee parents.
For girls, is 12 the new 15? Here’s why:
Ms. Dimerman says today’s parents are more reluctant than previous generations to set limitations or impose consequences for their children, a new parenting dynamic she attributes to factors such as the challenges of parenting after divorce and the increased time crunch of two-income families.
“Parents often don’t want to be in their kid’s bad books,” she says. “They may indulge their children, either with material things, or by not saying, ‘No.’ ”
Some related reading:
Home-Alone America : Why Today’s Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before ($US orders)