IN THE NEWS TODAY:
1. CBC News online is reporting that a Manitoba review panel has released its reasons for allowing Vince Li to take daily walks.
Perhaps it becomes more relevant when we mention that the walks are around his unfenced psychiatric hospital.
Oh, also, he’s the fellow that brutally murdered fellow passenger Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus nearly two years ago.
The CBC’s article doesn’t really mention the reasons the review panel listed, but does tell the whole grizzly story again. We suspect they posted the story, with it’s ever-so-clickable-and-slightly-deceiving title, for the same reason we are.
Wait, I thought we were calling out shoddy story choices? Oh irony. You’re my only friend.
2. A 17-year-old boy from Quebec has been charged after posting hateful racial comments on his Facebook page.
He has been charged twice, with uttering threats, and with inciting hatred on the internet.
Now, we’re no legal experts (though we did pass media law), but we’re pretty sure “inciting hatred on the internet” is the second most popular activity on the internet, after, well… of course.
I mean, has anyone in the Canadian legal system ever read the comments on YouTube? Or, god forbid — visited 4Chan?
3. Two Chicago Blackhawks heroes decided to take their new, 117 year old drinking buddy out for a night on the town.
Patrick Kane, who scored the game-winning goal in the Stanley Cup finals, and captain Jonathan Toews brought Lord Stanley’s Cup out clubbing with them last night.
When the celebrated journalists at TMZ asked Kane if he would get the ladies because of it, he said “I better.” Because that mean cut sure isn’t going to get the job done.
Come on man. You’re already an NHL player – you don’t need to show up with the best wingman ever.
4. It seems God may not like 62-foot tall foam statues of his only son. Who knew?
Yes, Touchdown Jesus, the landmark of the Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio, has been struck down by the wrath of the all-mighty. The statue is now a smoldering hunk of metal.
Fear not, for Solid Rock assures us, Touchdown Jesus will return.
Why did I take all those metaphysics courses just so years later I could be handed the best proof ever that God does not exist?
Or, is this the best proof that He DOES exist? And he’s just trolling? Seems to me like a flame war on an epic scale.