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13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - 2012 came a little ear... · 3 replies · +19 points

This could be the definitive election of this post-Chretien/Martin era. Unless of course we end up exactly where we are now, which seems likely.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Double dribble · 0 replies · +1 points

True, but it's at least better than Tim Horton's.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Double dribble · 0 replies · +3 points

You're right, of course. To be fair to the author, I don't think he was framing it as a national problem, so much as an inexplicable minor annoyance that lots of Canadians experience daily.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Double dribble · 0 replies · +3 points

You seem stressed.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Double dribble · 0 replies · +4 points

Ha! Well done.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Double dribble · 5 replies · +8 points

I spent a few months working in Boston, and I must say that Dunkin' Donuts has the best coffee lid ever. It's basically a cross between the Starbucks lid-with-spout and the classic tab lid. There is the spout, but there is also a tab that can plug the spout. Here's an image: http://aramsinnreich.typepad.com/aram_squalls/ima...

The tab fist snug in the hole and it works like a charm. There's even a little dock on the other side to hold the tab open.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Testing the rhetoric · 1 reply · +1 points

That's really pessimistic. I think you're forgetting about the boom part of the boom-bust cycle. Your catastrophic scenario is predicated on the assumptions that there will be no more innovation and no more productivity gains in the global economy.

The future can't be a return to the past, guy. The boom-bust cycle is the bringer of creative destruction, and without creative destruction we would never make gains in our collective prosperity. The great collective Canadian challenge moving forward is to modernize the infrastructure in our country while simultaneously tackling the structural deficit. Yeah, we have a cash-flow problem, but if we wallow in it we'll never gain the collective will to invest in the very things that will eventually make us a competitive and productive society.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Testing the rhetoric · 3 replies · +2 points

Right. I have no problem with anything you're saying here. It's how you're saying it. I hate it when people wrap otherwise intelligent politics in an identity package. It ruins the argument. That's why I made fun of your Marxist/Twitter rabble. You'll get nowhere by demonizing post-grads and Twitter users. Government is necessarily the place where the public comes together collectively to make progress, so there will always be a left and a hard-left, just as there will be a right and hard-right to correct the excesses of a ruling left. You're obviously disillusioned with liberalism, but the solution is not cutting off the left side of our political brains.

I also disagree that we have somehow condemned the next generation to poverty. I would like to see the proof for such alarmist claims.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Testing the rhetoric · 4 replies · +3 points

But what if Harper is seen wearing a hair net? WHAT THEN?

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Testing the rhetoric · 5 replies · +3 points

That's neat what you did with the "self-identifying" thing followed immediately by the anti-Twitter culture war thing.

The enemy, he is different, and that is scary.

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