A friend of mine in Calgary, posted this in her FaceBook.  I've heard similar before...

I am truly done being nice to people. It's just not worth it. I continuously see people who do not deseve or appreciate who and what they have surrounding them daily and use and abuse it and everyone till they get the attention that they feel owed, and I end up ( Read more... )

Starting tomorrow, I'm told, Guild Wars 1 will be selling pink dye at vendors.  The dyes cost 100 gold.  They can't be traded.  This is a special event for Breast Cancer Awareness month, And I think that's pretty cool ( Read more... )

The Moral High Ground, Part 2
In response to this post and a few other comments, I felt the need to do a response ( Read more... )

When I was a child, there were three things I had to do in school every morning, and every time we went to assembley.  1)  Sing O Canada, 2) Sing God Save the Queen, and 3) the Lord's Prayer.   This stopped by the time I made it into Jr High School, but some of it still sticks with me ( Read more... )

I'm seeing a lot of people protesting the police actions in Toronto during the G20, and I feel one aspect of the entire fiasco is being missed by the vast majority of the public.  Yes, people have the right to peaceful protests.  I'm all for that.  Sing your songs, chant your mantras, wave your flags and signs.  Go right ahead.  There's rules for ( Read more... )

Was talking with Cat's family on the way home tonight, and I mentioned how there's some protest in Ottawa about having security cameras inside busses in the Ottawa area.  There are people who think that this is an invasion of privacy.  Well, everyone in the car agreed that this is bull... you're in a public area, congrats... it's public.  In ( Read more... )

A friend in my LJ had just mentioned some of his issues with the Scion game.  While he didn't go into great detail about it, it's made me think about some of my issues with the game, and what I'd love to see answered:  First of all... while Odin, Zeus, and Aphrodite are known for sleeping around, and Poseidon has a wife who's very much fine with ( Read more... )

csi_tokyo3 and I had talked about this a few weeks ago, and it still sort of bugs me from time to time.  Basically, it comes down to this:

I wish that:  If you were reporting the news, you'd cut out any personal bias.  This is news, not editorial, so strip off the liberal or conservative bias, get your personal opinion out of my news, stick to the facts, ( Read more... )

Out of power, a party can get away with such negative ambiguity; the business of an opposition is to oppose. -- The Economist

That sounds almost like the opposition in Canada, too.  And you know, I don't like it.  The business of the opposition is not to oppose, but to ensure that the party-in-power is doing their job and is held accountable.  ( Read more... )

Part of a reply I made in an earlier journal entry involved the Monkey Sphere -- the human inability to consider more than a limited number of people as individuals and important.  The less important someone is, the less they're considered an individual, and the more they become an archetype or character than an actual person.  They're not ( Read more... )