Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Tuesday digest

- Lindsay Lohan was busted again for drinking and driving. Why, exactly, is this newsworthy?

- A carpenters' union in DC is paying homeless people minimum-wage money with no benefits to pose as members and picket for higher salaries.

- The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer? Nope. Everyone's getting richer, just some more quickly than others.

- It's been a while since I've posted a loony left play of the day, so here goes. I really hope this protest tactic doesn't come to Canada because seeing the fairer members of the federal NDP caucus unclothed is something no one wants to be subjected to.

- I posted this earlier in the month, but in case you missed it, I'm posting it again. It's a clip of the smug, Upper Canada College-educated CBC talking head Avi Lewis - son of David (all genuflect) and Michelle Landsberg, women's-libber from the Toronto Star, and husband of caviar socalist Naomi Klein - dismissively mocking Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch politician of Somali origin who has faced Sharia law, genital mutilation and numerous death threats for speaking out against violent Islam. Deconstruction here.

5 Comments:

At 2:50 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You blog on Lohan but nowhere mention Dalton's use of a racial slur!

 
At 3:14 PM, Blogger Road Hammer said...

Hold on now, it's not like McGuinty said it.

I had thought of commenting on the offending individual's defense that "she can't be racist because she's Asian" but thought it was too stupid to bother.

I guess at U of T they teach you that you can't be racist unless you are born with white skin.

 
At 3:55 PM, Blogger Road Hammer said...

I should add that at Carleton, they do just that.

 
At 12:03 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I did not know the offending individual was Asian. Still doesn't excuse it.

 
At 12:16 PM, Blogger Road Hammer said...

Nothing excuses defining people by their race, religion, sexual preference, language, gender or along any other identity politics-defined line in the workplace.

We are all invididuals and ought to be treated as such.

 

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