Murder Inc.

I've always been a big proponent of the US, and as such have always felt Canada to be, well, lacking. It always seemed British North America has taken a back seat to America, played second fiddler to Uncle Sam's violinist, been the younger, geekier, but nice, brother to the jock who get's all the girls, wearing that blue, white and red blazer we're always envious of. Well, Stats Can, those folks that collect every single stat they can about Canada in any given year, has reported Canada's murder rates have gone up! Fuck yeah!

For the past two years, gang related homicides has steadily risen, with spikes in Ontario and Alberta (what?) contributing to the jump. Hopefully this will help expel the notion of Canada being that quaint little (as in second largest land mass in the world) northerly neighbour to the badass Americans. We thugging it too, bro-ho!

Maybe now we can finally achieve that same level of respect the United States has had throughout the international community - as loud, ignorant and copiously trigger happy. Well, a guy can dream right?

Thugonomics fo' life, biotch!

UPDATE : In almost direct defiance of me, reports have begun springing up about how Ottawa, our very vanilla capital city, has rather low murder rates. What pansies! Hey Ottawa, too cool for the rest of us? God, I told you not to be situated so close to those Frenchies in Quebec. Before you try to be defiant to a general consensus, formulated through obscure statistical models, at least try to get a good hockey team together. The Senators are a fucking joke.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Before any anime fanboys raise their hopes in expectation of a post about the classic Japanese animated feature about angsty teens, in angsty robots, fighting angsty angels in a battle to save a world full of emo's, know that this is not about that, but it is close.

Ted Haggard has resigned from being the big cheese of the 30 million member National Association for Evangelicals, amidst allegations of possible solicitations of the homosexual persuasian. Well, is this true? Who knows, I wasn't really paying attention. Should this even be an issue in today's progressive minded society? Eh, what can I say? So Sang, why are you even writing about it? Because I have a fucking quota, lest I go and psychologically scar toddlers (note, read post before this one).

So what does this mean for all of those Evangelicals out there? Not a hell of a lot, but what's really nice is that us Catholics are now not the only publically shamed Christian denomination. Thank God Teddy is gay. This way, media attention can finally be diverted, at least momentarilly, from our favourite, umm, "overloving" priests. I mean, sure, these priests molested children for God's sake, but Mr. Haggard is gay. Last time I checked, nowhere in the bible does it denounce monsterous exploitation of impressionable prepubescents, but sodomy and its ilk are divinely looked down upon.

So yeah, in the grand scheme of all things Christian :

Pedophilia : Okay.
Faggotry : Damned to hell.

Jesus approves "tapping" this, as long as it's not faggy.