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I think the most exciting thing happening on Oct. 10 is not the Ontario election but the referendum that goes along with it (that and the fact it’s Hispanic Heritage Month!)

I’m not quite sure why people are having such a hard time getting this MMP system.

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It took me about 30 seconds to explain it to someone the other day and they thought it was a half-decent idea.

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A lot of lefty-progressive types are banging on the MMP drum hard these last few months and I don’t blame them. If you’re a member of the Green Party that 5-10% of the vote you get every election should translate into actual seats at Queen’s Park.

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It should also make “progress” in this province a little bit more of a stutter step than the wild pendulum swings that you tend to get with the current system.

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Even Andrew Coyne

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likes the system, arguing that the new system would mean that conservative ideas have a better chance of influencing the debate on a regular basis rather than in one big shot like in the Harris ‘Common Sense’ years.

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Andrew, I’m with you on this one.

Michael Hirschcorn in the Atlantic writes about the epidemic of quirk. Run Fatboy Run ipod

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Apparently pop culture is just too quirky for its own good.

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For every ten This American Lifes (Lives?) we have an achingly “normal” show like Two and Half Men. For every ten Wes Andersons we have directors like Michael Bay and McG.

I would bite my thumb at you sir, but I’m afraid that you might find that too quirky.

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I promise I’ll write more from now on. Here have a few links.

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Ok…. I know you’re not going to read this article so I’ll sum it up for you right here with this quote

“Maybe you’re right, but would a bunch of pretty ladies riding around on bicycles be so terrible?”

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Nope, I’m going to enjoy the cute women in fashionable fall wear as much as I can before all the bikes get put away for winter.

Here’s another on how Knopf’s editors said no to Nabokov... and Anne Frank, and Sartre.

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One of the things I’ve been listening to on my iPod is lectures from TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). It’s a conference that’s been going on since 1984 and it brings together some very, very interesting people.

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Recent lectures that piqued my interest include James Howard Kunstler, the Google boys, Bill Clinton and more. But there are many others that I’m not familiar with that are worth a listen. They’re each about 20-30 minutes long and make my morning commute more eye-opening than a cup of espresso.

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Tap water is something we all take for granted. Unless you don’t have it (i.e. you forgot to pay your bill) or it goes wrong (you live in Walkerton, Ont. or Vancouver after a bad rainstorm) In most developed countries tap water is available everywhere, think about it. How many faucets and showerheads do you have in your house and how often do you use it in a day? I hope at least twice, to brush your teeth in the morning.

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is such a great idea. On March 22nd restaurants in NY will charge a buck for water. All the cash goes to UNICEF to help provide clean water in the third world. I hope this spreads to other cities.

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New York magazine ran an article a couple of weeks ago on how kids today are more than willing to show extremely private parts of their lives online. The three key ideas of these new show-offy kids:

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1) They think they have an audience
2) They’ve archived their adolescence
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The flip side is this CNN story on how vanity is on the rise among college students.

Sigh.

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The study asserts that narcissists “are more likely to have romantic relationships that are short-lived, at risk for infidelity, lack emotional warmth, and to exhibit game-playing, dishonesty, and over-controlling and violent behaviors.”

Yeah…. we’re raising a society of sociopaths and the best part is that we’ll be able to find out about it on any number of social networking sites.

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Mr. Doctorow from Boing Boing points me to the Urban Curators I Want Candy trailer , a group of folks who place frames on particularly nice pieces of public space. This goes along with the TPSC’s art attack project so well that I may just bug Amanda to make it part of the next art attack.

I’ve also been spending a lot of time with mugs lately because I’ve come down with a nasty case of laryngitis or something that has turned my voice into something that resembles Kermit the Frog’s. I’m intrigued by these bad boys and may make a trip to a Value Village to find some of ‘em. My favourite coffee shop seems to have a few of them kicking around too. Link from this fine blog.

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Ok, not so lazy. Finished a book review for Quill and Quire, drafted a campaign update for my TPSC campaign against truck billboards and now I’m sitting at Tequila Bookworm Mum & Dad buy

reading things online.

A few things that caught my eye:

Harvard got its first woman president. A good thing considering Larry Summers was a touch mysgonistic. That sound you hear is the other shoe dropping. (from the NYT)

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The State Dept. apparently asked a bunch of writers to write about what it means to be American. Includes Michael Chabon (one of my favourites) and heavy hitters like Richard Ford and former poet laureate Robert Pinsky.  (from Metafilter)

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