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The Owl House
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Another example of Outsider Art, the curious "art" created by people for reasons unbeknownst to others, for no reason other than the simple joy of creation.
I rather love the creepy doll...
Baltimore
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A link that explains how prevalent and entrenched corruption has become in the US:
If you think it's any better here you're out of your mind. Read the news. The Calgary Police force routinely is accused - and convicted - on similar charges. Maybe not as bad - but maybe - just maybe - we don't know everything that's going on. Probably. There's no fixing this, there's just dismantle it and start again. We can do a lot better.
UPDATE: This on Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/if-we-want-to-have-a-just-society-we-need-to-start-giving-police-officers-parking-tickets.html
This actually makes a lot of sense. You don't have to have lived in Calgary for long to see the police flashing their sirens to run a red light (for no reason other than boredom), make illegal turns, parked illegally, etc. And the whole attitude of "we're above the law" is pretty clear in any dealings with them. Accountability is the first thing everyone should expect from anyone paid to uphold the law...
Melvyn Bragg - In Our Time
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A new podcast (to me, it's been around forever), interesting, the irritable and generally not-as-well informed host directs a panel of experts on a variety of topics in which he has a skirting familiarity and virtually no expertise. Interesting, but for the guests one has the feeling that if just let off the leash they would lead you down much more scenic roads to more verdure pastures of thought. But at the moment it's just the background noise of more intelligent conversation that sucks me in...
Calgary - Canadian Tire
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This made me laugh. I mean, it's sad, fuck, it's fucking pathetic, yet it's pretty much exactly the same impression I received in my dealings with the Fucking child molesters at Canadian Tire. Only I never had the "... she expected the same good service and attitude that she and her family had come to expect from the company,"
LOL. With Canadian Tire there's only raped - when you've been awake and had to endure every fucking minute of the horror of their "Service" - and then pay a bill afterwards, and then there's "Date Rape Drug Rape", where you don't fucking know enough about cars to know how fucking hard they just raped you.
Link: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-woman-blames-canadian-tire-for-month-of-auto-drama-1.3787960
I gotta write up my Canadian Tire Story, and then post pictures of my ass afterwards. Not a pretty sight, I'm telling you...
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