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Oakville, 2011.01.23

Rush Limbaugh, who I think is the American entertainer who gave Canada the nickname "Soviet Canuckistan" has finally come up with another keeper.

According to the Doonesbury website, he said, "When I hear Chinese or Japanese, it sounds like all the same word. And I can't comprehend anybody understanding it."

Remarkable. I also can't comprehend the insane degree of willful hate an harm that some people spread.

An excellent example: upon returning to Oakville, today I learned that the police were doing the rounds. It seems there's a rapist operating in the city's south. He's of the fabled type that watches houses to track the activity of the people therein, then he enters the house when he's sorted out that the young woman of the home is alone. Pathetic.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row