news raze "the good news you cannot refuse the bad news is there is no news" — scott walker 130514 ... epitome of incomprehensibility No snooze is not good news, news is not good news either. Look. Why do people keep killing people? It's tiresome. Terrorism was more fun when I was a kid, I told my father yesterday. He took it with equanimity, either "getting" me or not paying attention (he rarely thinks I'm funny, but often thinks I have a point, which is ego-gratifying if dubiously true). I meant that, for example, 9/11 was an event. Now these things are just continuous and tedious. And I don't mean just Muslims: that Brievik guy, for instance. Now Jian Ghomeshi got acquitted, and while he's not a murderer or anything, it feels unfair. I read somewhere that it'd have worked better charging him with assault than sexual assault, or that such a designation would be more accurate; I thought they had a point, but what to call the fact that the hitting and/or choking was done against current or potential intimate partners? Domestic abuse didn't seem quite right. One letter to the editor in the Gazette called it "date violence." That designation seems apt. The other coverage in the Gazette was kind of... well, at the time they had regular columns from Christie Blatchford from the National Post, and while she has cool glasses and all, her "conservative but commonsense" shtick is wearying. The coverage of the trial especially: victim-blaming, as the expression goes. And even if the complainants were lying, even if this were some unlikely conspiracy against an arrogant ex, why was C.B. crowing about one of the people admitting to doing sexual stuff with Ghomeshi after the alleged assault? I mean, abusive relationships exist, right? It's not as easy to get out of things like that when you're emotionally entangled. Your commentary isn't common sense when it ignores common occurrences as well as sense. Blah. Wrong targets. I'm supposed to be getting mad at violence, not at a particular journalist personally. That seems unfair. But it's not the person that I object to, it's what she was writing. 160324 ... tender_square two separate incidents of guns being fired in the east end, casings canvassed, no injuries. the money-pit of a water adventureland has limited hours over march break because the city believes offering $17 to protect children's lives is enough to compensate lifeguards. police dogs sniff the edges of e.c. row to find the remains of a transient woman missing since november. a downtown forum on the drug crises yields groundbreaking ideas like putting up more streetlights and offering porta potties. my mother's friend asks me if i enjoy being back here; my answer isn't much of an answer. all cities are troubled by the same influx of bad shit. maybe it hurts more that it's occurring here, that in the decade plus that i've been away the climate has only worsened. 230311 what's it to you? who go blather from