I won’t be replying to e-mails or checking my voicemail for the next five weeks, so if you don’t hear from me, it’s nothing personal.
Needless to say, there won’t be anything new at Irrelevant Opinions either until sometime at the end of May or June perhaps.
The Calvin and Hobbes comic at the bottom of the page will continue to be updated daily, though!
Have a great summer, everyone!
Wa salam,
Faraz
I was hoping I’d be able to leave aside the Tim Hortons stories for a while, but then this happened.
“Police have ruled out terrorism as the cause of an explosion that ripped through a Tim Hortons doughnut shop in the trendy Yorkville area of downtown Toronto Sunday, killing one man.”
“Police have not confirmed reports the man was seen entering the washroom with wires or possibly explosives strapped to his body.”
Suppose they did confirm that this guy was strapped with explosives. Would it only be considered terrorism if the bomber was Arab or Muslim? If the guy is blowing himself up in a coffee shop, I’m sure his motivations go beyond the recent price increase for ice caps. Of course, Tim Hortons’ makes quite a bit of business from it’s Muslim customers. If it were Starbucks, this would be another story altogether.
I only promised the irrelevant. And I won’t even deliver that anymore.
I think we need another Tim Hortons’ story for today.
Free Tim Hortons, U.S. fund says | CBC News
I’ve been reading from the Riverbend blog for the last few hours, and it’s been disturbing me greatly. Her writing is so effective in bringing the reader into the moment, into her neighbourhood and even into her family… I felt I needed a taste of home to get myself back on track. So an article about Tim Hortons seemed fitting; come home for lunch, they say.
Anyway, to anyone who ever stumbles upon my Irrelevant Opinions, I humbly request you to stop reading this and go to the Riverbend blog. Her writing is extremely eloquent, putting me to shame with her witty metaphors and effective analogies. And while you’re at it, drop by here too.