Obama ♥ change!

In lieu of a proper update, I offer unto the masses this:

Courtesy of what might be the best-named blog ever – Drink-soaked Trotskyite Popinjays for WAR.

A scary mix of nationalism and… market research?!

Just finished an online survey on what makes me angry (don’t ask, I got paid a dollar for my time/labour – the online proletariat?) and I thought one of the questions was interesting. It asked me which of a list of types of people who made me angry, some of which were kind of stupid (“people who wear flip-flops in the winter”) and some kind of hit home (“people who take their children to restaurants frequented by adults”.. uh, whoops).

However, there were some (about a quarter of the list) that was kind of… worrisome. Examples:

“people who request change on the street (panhandlers)”

“people who don’t know the words to ‘Oh Canada’”

“people who complain too much (about their job, their family, etc.)”

“people who can’t speak English well”

Seemed kind of, well, knee-jerk conservative nationalist to me. I’d hate to see how many Canadians actually agreed with those answers.