The Toronto School Board agreed to charter a black only school.

I’m a guy who’s down with the end of funding for public education, and I’m black so I’m totally not down with there being a blacks-only school in Toronto. Stuff like that is totally not cool with me.

For one thing, I know this is said a lot, but being black is just a skin colour, culturally there’s a ton more diversity among black people from various parts of Africa or the Caribbean than non-black people would know. Lumping them into a school based on skin colour (because ‘racially’ there’s a lot of variation among us too) isn’t going to be a good thing.

I can totally understand that people want to see black kids do better, and segregation might be a way of achieving that, but it has to be the worst way imaginable.

It’s just such a horrid precedent it should be illegal or something. It’s both an embarrassment to blacks and discriminatory.

I see this as the start of something really, really bad.

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I’ve already given this story more text than it deserves.

But the quality of reportage out there just sinks.

This sentence qualifies as journalism?

Your trainer of 10 years, a man named Brian McNamee, a man with zero incentive to lie, says he injected you with steroids and human growth hormone at least 16 times over a period of several years.

Now, I’m not a Roger Clemens fan (don’t care about baseball) but since when does ‘Someone with no inventive to lie.’ have to be telling the truth? People lie all the time. Under oath. To make themselves look better, to make other people look as bad as them.

Everyone always has some incentive to lie. Hey, maybe this guy wanted to throw someone else with a bigger name to the wolves and not be investigated anymore?

I don’t know if Roger Clemens ever took steroids, but if the best you can do is say that his accuser had no incentive to lie then you’re naive.

I’ve read and watched so many stories online, on blogs, in newspapers and on t.v. to know that the press gets it wrong often.

I saw a story on violent videogames on CTV once, and how little kids could watch them. Then I watched an ad during the commercial breaks for the Sopranos on CTV at 10pm, a time when a lot of little kids with lax parents are still up. I read the same story in the Globe and Mail later. I wonder if anyone at Bell Globemedia, which owns CTV and the Globe thought it made them look silly?

I wonder if anyone at The Toronto Star thought it was ridiculous to use ‘Videogame linked to car crash’ as a headline after a copy of a Need For Speed game was found on the passenger seat of the car? I wonder if anyone has checked to see how many drivers who cause crashes have a newspaper on the passenger side?

Intelligence is dead.

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Can you believe that I got flyers delivered to my apartment on Christmas Day?

They were boxing day flyers, guess the retailers decided they have to push as hard as they can to suck out the last few $$$ from everyone, but.

Well.

Ewwwww.

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Like, duhhhh.

But Chantal Hébert writes that his leadership is primarily at fault for the declining Liberal party in this story.

I for one am kind of tired of there being this automatic naming of a Liberal leader from Québec. Martin, Chrétien, Tory Mulroney, Trudeau…..it seems like there’s an assumption that a French Canadian from Québec is the automatic way to go. It’s as if they sit back at their leadership conferences and say, “Hey! He’s the safe choice, he’s a Québecer!”

The Harper Tories have done a pretty good job as far as I can tell, I’d rather they pay down the debt as fast as they can, but they’ve been pretty good as a minority gov’t. I’d just like to see someone from outside la belle province get the opportunity.

And not Ignatieff

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Hey y’all!

So, like my blog comment-thingie is like totally working now.

So, you can – I dunno – sign up here: http://gregattack.com/wp-login.php?action=register

Or, to like comment on a story click the ‘Comments’ link under it, then click where it says ‘You must be logged in’ and then ‘Register’.

It’s so easy, anyone can do it!

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You’d thnk that toilet bowl brushes would be designed to MINIMIZE any chances of toilet bacteria flying at your face.

You’d think.

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I hope my directness and frankness don’t alarm you. I can come off as pretty abrasive to those who don’t know me, but those who do know me as a no-nonsense get-with-the-program straight shooter who tells it like it is.

I don’t know why I don’t want to do anything when I get home except sit in front of a computer…why do newspaper writers always use the cliché ‘It wasn’t supposed to be this way’, would they have a story otherwise?…I think all politicians are dishonest and just want you to vote for them, really….Nice people make better friends than mean ones….Musical education is really important for children….Why do people worry so much about what other people think of them? The real danger is rap music….The Raptors need to play well as a team in order to win as many games as they did last year, but I think they can do it, but not necessarily….

More insight coming.

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