With posters like this:
I think I can hardly be blamed for getting my hopes up. Naturally (inevitably) I was disappointed when, once again, the tentacled shot put failed to make it as even a mere exhibition sport.
I’d show him where to put it, that’s for sure!
Another Olympic scandal tops the headlines this morning as it is revealed that, in a substitution reminiscent of the opening ceremony’s switched songstresses and faux fireworks, London Mayor Boris Johnson did not, in fact, attend the closing ceremony at all, but instead was replaced by a sophisticated computer-generated animation.
This shocking swap was insisted upon by [...]
Again I say: oh, Boris. Don’t ever change.
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London gives quite possibly the greatest Olympic speech ever made; quite certainly the most entertaining. But why didn’t he bring up Poodle Clipping? That was an Olympic sport!
“Virtually every single one of our international sports were either invented or codified [...]
Dateline: the Forbidden City:
Today, shocking news has emerged of the sub-human conditions in which the Chinese Olympic Team (identities obscured here for their protection) is kept. Sadly, it appears that the famously controlling Chinese government is taking no chances on defections, forcing the diminutive athletes to train in specially-segregated gyms. The armed guards in attendance [...]
At that point - I would have you see - the force to which one yielded mingles with one’s will; and no excuse can pardon their joint act.
Absolute will does not concur in wrong; but the contingent will, through fear that its resistance might bring greater harm, consents.
Dante, Paradisio IV 37
The [...]
UN agency invites Pivot lawyer to Geneva
David Eby to present on homelessness and Olympics
May 31, 2007
Vancouver – A United Nations-funded housing rights agency has invited Pivot Legal Society lawyer David Eby to Geneva to make a presentation on the impacts of the 2010 Olympic Games on Vancouver’s most marginalized residents.
Eby’s presentation to the Centre on [...]
From Pivot Legal Society:
“Civil City Slam”
Tuesday, May 22, at 7 pm at First United Church 320 E. Hastings St, at Gore Ave.
This forum is being organized as a result of an initiative undertaken by 16 Vancouver progressive elected representatives, representing 3 levels of government, including MP Libby Davies; MLAs David Chudnovsky, Adrian Dix, Jenny Kwan, [...]
From Pivot Legal Society:
“Olympic” evictions declared illegal
Vancouver – Pivot Legal Society and a coalition of advocacy groups won two low-income housing eviction- and rent-increase cases for residents of one of the Downtown Eastside’s low-income hotels today.
Two residents of the Golden Crown Hotel received notice today from the Residential Tenancy Branch that their illegal eviction notices [...]
Click this link for more information on the Pivot Legal Society and the eviction epidemic of Vancouver.
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