This Week in The Place You Love to Hate (AKA Toronto)

Our top story this week:  this blogger works 18 days straight at a minimum of 8 hours per day for a total of INSANITY.  Padded room at 11.

In actual news, Toronto Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti has revealed evidence of a massive conspiracy against him that includes email hacking and a threatening letter.  Now the envy of paranoid nutters everywhere, Mammoliti goes on to say that he knows the people involved and suspects other councillors of contributing to the campaign of terror.  That's right folks, you heard it here first:  TRUST.  NO.  ONE.

Charming TV show, or DEADLY DOCUMENTARY?
Photo by Alina Sofia licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

The Fabulous Five: Number Two and Number One!

I was sick yesterday!  I plead the plague!

Here's the intro and #5

Here's #4

And here's #3

Today I wrap up my fabulous five funny ladies of the internet in celebration of International Women's Day!  Without further ado, it's on to #2...

The Fabulous Five: Number Three

Number 4 is here!

Number 5 (and intro) is here!

#3:  Sarah Schneider
It's entirely possible that you've seen Sarah Schneider in several places, but had no idea just who she was.  The name sounds familiar, right?  Here, let's put an office behind her:

The Fabulous Five: Number Four

#5 is here!

#4:  Laina Morris AKA Overly Attached Girlfriend

Bwuh?  Who?

Maybe THIS will jog your memory:

The Fabulous Five: Introduction & Number Five

International Women's Day is this Friday (March 8), and I wanted to take the week leading up to it to talk about the women in the world who give us all the greatest gift possible:  laughter.  INTERNET laughter.

Comedy is not an easy thing to begin with, but putting that comedy out onto the world wide web is akin to putting yourself before a slice of humanity that reeks of troll dung and mothers' basements.  The risks are great, but so are the rewards.

The women on this brief list are just a tiny sampling of an entire world of comedians ready to brave on onslaught of negativity for the moment where they succeed in making someone, somewhere, feel better about life.  Maybe it's just a smile.  Maybe it's a laugh-out-loud.  Maybe, just maybe, they manage to drive home a thought-provoking moment.

I can't speak to their motivations or their aspirations, but I can speak to what they give to me, and to others.  And for that, I think it's high time somebody out there recognized them and gave them their due.

These are my five favourite funny-women of the Internet!

This Week In Pinko Commie Central (AKA Toronto)

This week, we kick off our rundown of stories with former Tory adviser and University of Calgary Professor Tom Flanagan's comments from a seminar at the University of Lethbridge (that's Calgary Junior), regarding child pornography:

“A lot of people on my side of the spectrum, the conservative side of the spectrum, have been on kind of a jihad against pornography and child pornography in particular. And I certainly have no sympathy for child molesters, but I do have some grave doubts about putting people in jail because of their taste in pictures..."

Wait.

Wait, seriously?

He SAID that?