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That's a mighty big shovel, dude.

Submitted by mir on January 18, 2007 - 12:29pm
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According to a column by James Mennie in the Gazette (sorry public you will not get to read it. The online Gazette is only available to subscribers) the city of Montreal spent between 10 and 12 million dollars cleaning the streets of our last snowstorm, yeah that's right, from Monday to today - 10 million dollars.

Kinda boggles the mind doesn't it.

The breakdown includes the salaries of 3000 paid snow removal people, and the expenses associated with running 1200 of those big dump-trucks that take all the snow away. I am not sure what we're looking at in terms of donuts and cups of coffee. But it's probably nothing to sneeze at either (no pun intended).

Oh no I was tagged and I didn't notice!!

Submitted by mir on December 27, 2006 - 8:05pm
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I should really check my stats more often.

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    • Time magazine person of the year it's you..well no it's me. Well actually it's YouTube. Aw fuck. who really cares anymore

    Submitted by mir on December 18, 2006 - 6:54pm
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    Jane Eyre would think blogging is so declasse.

    I can't believe I still haven't finished either of my papers, and I got the curse so now I am soooo.....tired, and my laser-beam intellect of Saturday night has turned into a soft-boiled egg of confusion, "what am I writing about again?"

    Luckily Time is here to entertain us all with a story of how bloggers are the person of the year for 2006.

    It's ironic that my final papers are about how Myspace is a giant scam, and the vernacular Bible led to the de-sacralization of the word. I think perhaps blogging is leading to the de-sacralization of the power of the mass. I hate the thought that I make up even a billionth part of Times person of the year, it makes my mojo run cold.

    Damn! Jews and Latinos represent only 1 of the twelve tribes each.

    Submitted by mir on December 9, 2006 - 4:02pm
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    Wow, this week-end is turning out even less productive than I thought.

    So I just literally fell down the research rabbit-hole. You know you ask one question; "Well if I am going to understand the role religious media has played in forming American public opinion I best do some research on religion, politics 'n American history". No sooner can you say Google Scholar, than *whammooo* two hours gone and no reading done, just more research. crap.

    Anyways, So I found this article called; "The twelve Tribes of American Politics" which claims to be a comprehensive (in three pages no less) breakdown of the various spiritual and secular positions that make 12 political demographics, the tribes.