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Tax injustice faded, just a

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:10 +0000

In reply to Against the Crocodile: Amy Bishop, Joseph Stack, and the Press

Tax injustice faded, just a week after the death of 2 people.

I hear some polar bears

Doctor Cleveland — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:01:06 +0000

In reply to How important did Canadians

I hear some polar bears signed up for satellite dishes, too.

How important did Canadians

acanuck — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:43:18 +0000

In reply to You never give up cheering

How important did Canadians think that game was? It was viewed (in whole or in part) by 26.5 million -- 80 per cent of the country's entire population.

Of the 20 per cent who didn't tune in, consider that an undetermined number were babies whose nap times overlapped the game, people in comas, the hopelessly insane who do not understand that they even are Canadian, new immigrants who speak neither French nor English and didn't realize the Olympics were on, members of Al-Qa'ida sleeper cells who hate everything Canadian, hunters stranded on ice floes due to global warming, etc.

I think that covers most of the six million or so who missed the game. Tant pis pour eux-autres.

You never give up cheering

Doctor Cleveland — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:59:17 +0000

In reply to Bah. There shouldn't have

You never give up cheering for your own team, which is part of the pleasure of watching sports, but at a certain point you have to give it up for the greatness of a truly great game. And that gold-medal game was one for the ages. Congratulations!

Bah. There shouldn't have

Nebton — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:50:58 +0000

In reply to You're equating a

Bah. There shouldn't have been a gold-medal game. They should've given it to the US just because we'd already proven capable of defeating the Canadians. I think our team was just guilty of sloppy sentamentalism and let y'all win because we felt sorry for you.

You're equating a

acanuck — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:46:55 +0000

In reply to I think there should've been

You're equating a preliminary-round matchup with the gold-medal game? Still more tortuous reasoning.

I think there should've been

Nebton — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:36:22 +0000

In reply to Don't quite see how a blog

I think there should've been a tie-breaker. Only in Hockey can a 1-1 record against another team be considered a win. (Of course, if it had been decided in our favour, I'd be singing a different tune.)

Don't quite see how a blog

William K. Wolfrum — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:36:16 +0000

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Don't quite see how a blog about violent losers morphed into one about Olympic hockey

Six of one ...

Don't quite see how a blog

acanuck — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:48:28 +0000

In reply to Yay for Canada. I'm sure U.S.

Don't quite see how a blog about violent losers morphed into one about Olympic hockey, but I'll bite. That was indeed one helluva game. I took it in at a sports bar, and it was worth the 90-minute wait to get in. In case anyone hasn't heard yet, the win pushed Canada's gold-medal total to 14, the most ever for any country at a Winter Olympics.

Some commentators are comparing Crosby's medal-winning goal to Paul Henderson's winner in Game 8 of the Canada-Soviet "Summit Series." I saw that goal too, and I have to disagree. This year's Olympic final matchup was about national bragging rights; the 1972 scrap with the Russians was about whether we could still call hockey our national game (with a clash of ideologies for added zest).

Yesterday's game was indeed memorable, as was much of the hockey played in Vancouver. I was rooting for plucky Slovakia (with Montreal's Jaroslav Halak in goal) to take the bronze, but it was not to be. Moral victory for their team, though.

Just keep saying "Prime

quinn esq — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:31:50 +0000

In reply to Yay for Canada. I'm sure U.S.

Just keep saying "Prime Minister Stephen Harper."

That'll make 'em weep.