Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The day after
In a little while
I won't be blown by every breeze
I won't be blown by every breeze
- U2, In a Little While
¶ 7:03 PM Well, the TTC decided to go on strike yesterday to get a long weekend...I mean, fight for better working conditions. I never understand the reasoning behind a strike by government employees, be they TTC workers or public school teachers or any other public sector. It's like they're saying the government doesn't appreciate us, so let's punish the people who do. I had nowhere to go yesterday and that makes me a lucky minority. This is definitely not the way for them to go about gathering support; I just wish the employees would've understood that. But then again, that would entail them understanding that the union is playing them for fools. Obviously (and sadly), that's not happening anytime soon.
In other news, there's still a genocide going on in Sudan, but that's secondary news on that continent to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's superbaby, whose initial saliva is expected to cure cancer and whose first words are going to disprove Newton's second law of motion...wait, what? It's not actually expected to do any of those things? What? It's only going to look good? Is it a human being or a wax statue? Hmmm....it's funny how even the media can wear blinders every so often. Stuck in Namibia for four months awaiting the arrival of a baby, not one major (or minor) network finds the stamina to hop over to neighbouring South Africa and put together a major report on how that country is developing 16 years after Apartheid. Not ot mention the bounty on the baby's picture; $5 Million US. Really? Cause I've got some old baby pics of me that I'm willing to let you have for half a mil instead. I mean, honestly, it's a baby; to the best of my knowledge, all newborn babies look the same. I suppose the tabloids are expecting this one to look different, have extremely pouty lips perhaps. The real question is How on earth do they have $5 million US to spend on 1 baby picture? This is contrasted quite starkly by the fact that Pitt and Jolie asked for and willingly received complete privacy from the Namibian media; apparently they don't consider the baby that special.
Well, those are all the ramblings I have time to put onscreen today; more to come eventually sometime.
In other news, there's still a genocide going on in Sudan, but that's secondary news on that continent to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's superbaby, whose initial saliva is expected to cure cancer and whose first words are going to disprove Newton's second law of motion...wait, what? It's not actually expected to do any of those things? What? It's only going to look good? Is it a human being or a wax statue? Hmmm....it's funny how even the media can wear blinders every so often. Stuck in Namibia for four months awaiting the arrival of a baby, not one major (or minor) network finds the stamina to hop over to neighbouring South Africa and put together a major report on how that country is developing 16 years after Apartheid. Not ot mention the bounty on the baby's picture; $5 Million US. Really? Cause I've got some old baby pics of me that I'm willing to let you have for half a mil instead. I mean, honestly, it's a baby; to the best of my knowledge, all newborn babies look the same. I suppose the tabloids are expecting this one to look different, have extremely pouty lips perhaps. The real question is How on earth do they have $5 million US to spend on 1 baby picture? This is contrasted quite starkly by the fact that Pitt and Jolie asked for and willingly received complete privacy from the Namibian media; apparently they don't consider the baby that special.
Well, those are all the ramblings I have time to put onscreen today; more to come eventually sometime.
