Spend yourself into a corner, Euro style
Looks like I’ve come full circle with my postal delivery person. Despite my heartfelt acceptance of the “Red Dot Campaign”, three years ago (and with it, 36 months of freedom from fritter), I’m now back to receipt of a gob of flyers and paid advertising in my mailbox. Thankfully, there’s a slot to deposit the stuff right on the same Superbox. You fill, I fill, we all waste each other’s time.
Sorry, Canada Post, but this rates you a big FAIL stamp.
The Occupy group in Quebec City is about to get the bum’s rush. Probably within the next hour or two. The mayor doesn’t like things that he didn’t instigate, so he has held the requisite meeting with civil authorities (fire and police chiefs), and the tent city will be moved unless a minor miracle occurs. I’m not surprised; democracy is not part of the mayor’s vocabulary. Ditto for freedom of expression.
In the weekly chapter of the EuroCrisis, the Greek prime minister appears to have postponed/abandoned his plan for a referendum on the latest austerity measures, after getting a call from the other people (you know, the other people; the nameless, the banking types). As one pundit put it, “If you are a thousand in debt, you’ve got a problem. If you are a trillion in debt, we’ve got a problem”. Somehow, I don’t think the average citizen woke up one morning and said “I think I’ll bankrupt the nation”. It took someone who is beyond average – an outlier. Tune in next week for the exciting continuation of the saga.
