Posted 6:22 PM by Gene

The catastrophe in Vancouver says THE GAMES are a Band-Aid, a false front, a mirage; it now seems obvious the city had deep problems well before and beyond the supposed healing powers of that cure for cancer. We also suspect malevolent policing practices helped turn sparks into a conflagration: Canada, after all, is The World's Most PC Country, and the law most likely wasn't out because, well, criminal behavior IS almost a right, and besides what's wrong with a little celebration, and perhaps the mice feared any show of force would goad NEWS HACKS into high dudgeon (they'd have been correct about that), so the necessary proactive response was supplanted by sitting around, which turned in no time into half-hearted apologetic self-defense; only when it became obvious the cretins weren't singing "Kumbaya" as they set cars on fire did any sense finally kick in. There will be the usual self-flagellation, the usual hearings, the usual scapegoats, but there's no sign Vancouver will become any more livable or responsible, or that Canada's leaders will be any less wussies.

Oh, and blaming it on anarchists won't do. By sleeping on the job you should first blame it on YOURSELVES.

Well, there is one hope of the modern world: Idiots did the WEINER, and as that mutt learned to his dense sorrow it can be used against you.



P. S. I suppose this weird picture is our generation's version of the sailor and the girl in Times Square. Maybe if the GENIUS Ridley Scott staged it. I think I'd rather have the sailor and the girl.



And how apt that Vancouver quickly sprouted its own version of the yellow ribbon. Look, the sentiment's nice, but sentiment didn't prevent the DAMAGE.

P. S. on 6/17/2011 at 12:10 p. m. Despite suspicions engendered by a Web whose greatest products are publicity and cynicism that first picture was not staged.