About This Blog

There are some things you really should know about this blog.

Although my first post was about the Vancouver Hockey Riots, 2011 Edition, I do not intend this blog to be primarily a rant site. There will, by all means, be the occasional rant when situations irk me enough to deserve comment – the riots are a prime example of this kind of event. Rather, I intend this site to be a place wherein I can vent my spleen against some of life’s more frustrating idiocies.

Things like: people not paying attention to stop signs; people not knowing that Earth is the third (from the sun) of eight (yes, eight) planets in our solar system; people not knowing that Japan is, in fact, a country, and not a city in China (seriously, someone once said this to me – she was married to a pretty tough biker guy, high up in an “organization,” so I failed to correct her at the time out of a sense of self-preservation); people not knowing that you should wait for others to leave an elevator before crowding your way on; and so on.

In short, I intend this to be a site where I can comment on some of society’s minor ills, small disgraces, and occasional disregard for proprieties. A site where I can extol the virtues of a basic education, and for the things a person can learn if they keep their ears open and their mouths shut, virtues that are sorely lacking today. A place where I can virtually slap people and say, “What are you? Some kind of idiot?” Most of us are, from time to time.

I hope this will be a place you can have a little laugh, and maybe vent a little yourself in the comments when you see a topic that irks you as well (or when you disagree with me). Maybe you’ll see yourself a little, or you’ll see someone you know – you can always point them here if you’re too embarrassed to tell them that chewing gum while serving food is just plain disgusting.