Patrick Metzger

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• Commented on Drop Fees, End Poverty! And Also Do All These Other Things!
  I was going to use "remarkable" or "incandescent" to describe the quote but I didn't want to gush. My point is that since no reasonable person would expect this absurd, unwieldy mess of a protest to achieve any useful outcome,...
• Commented on Drop Fees, End Poverty! And Also Do All These Other Things!
  These events always remind me of PJ O'Rourke's excellent description of participants an anti-homelessness rally from Parliament of Whores (although we could make appropriate adjustments for the Canadian setting adn the 20 years since he wrote): "The demonstrators seemed to...
• Commented on Polling Booth: Front of the Flu Shot Line
  Generally speaking I don't have a problem with users paying to get quicker access to medical care (as opposed to the usual Canadian method of using personal contacts) provided it doesn't pull resources out of the taxpayer funded system. Like...
• Commented on Newsstand: November 3, 2009
  Seriously, we're talking 20th century grain silos, not the Parthenon. Build something pretty there and in 70 years that can be a Heritage Structure....
• Commented on Newsstand: November 2, 2009
  I wonder where kids from the Bridle Path go trick-or-treating? Or do they just stay home and roll around in huge underground vaults full of candy like Scrooge McDuck?...