I could tell you the child's name. I could tell you how and maybe even when the virus shifted from human to human but why bother you with details. But in the end the snow falls outside, Oprah is on on a hundred channels and I got a fever. Fevered, I write. Next week its February.
- I never knew that Steve Shutt was a jerk. Me, I married for my hockey connections.
- I have far less sympathy for this guy than this gal. Shaving your head for cancer should be recognized as a human right.
- Even with their selling of passports and citizenships, this is the most embarrassing stupendously weird thing I have ever read about any Canadian political decision at any level. Apparently the "past experience" was a John Fogerty concert. How that translates into being the start of the King of Pop tribute tour in anyone's imagination is beyond me.
- So what was this guy doing?
I am done. Tiger balmed and medicated. Off to nap. And stuff.
Comments
Ben (The Tiger) - January 28, 2011 3:52 PM
Can you fire someone for being ugly? I think you can, as long as the ugliness doesn't come from a religious practice or an actual illness.
Not nice, tho'. I'd've told her to get a prettier wig.
Alan - January 28, 2011 5:06 PM
But she is not ugly. She is merely bald and chose to be bald as a form of free expression not that different from mourning. You may note that I did the same thing in 2002. It also begs the question as to what we understand a face to be.
Alaskans has a human rights ruling on appearance from the 1970s. It was a long hair v. school board thing. Apparently the court found, that Alaskans like long hair more than bossy school board conformists.
You should skim my 2002 LLM thesis. I am so proud that I quoted The Jam at footnote 161.
Alan - January 28, 2011 9:16 PM
Did Iggy really need to do this?
Ben (The Tiger) - January 28, 2011 11:31 PM
Nah, she's ugly bald.
Unfortunate, but that's life.
If we couldn't discriminate on appearance, trips to the bar would be less fun...
Ben (The Tiger) - January 28, 2011 11:32 PM
Maybe Ignatieff is a secret Harper agent.
Huh? I think he just may be.
Jay Currie - January 29, 2011 4:00 AM
Of course Iggy needed to. He is scared witless of Quebec. Which means if Harper says maybe, Iggy says yes.
There are striking bald women, Sinead comes to mind.
Ben (The Tiger) - January 29, 2011 9:52 AM
There are, and Sinead was. Just not this one.
Mind you, this was a Thai restaurant. One expects bald people. Were the owners offended by her irreligious baldness?
Can one file a human rights complaint for religious firings that have nothing to do with your religion? Like if I had an employer who fired me for wearing a hypothetical Steak Festival of Canada t-shirt?
Ed Carson - January 30, 2011 1:51 PM
The photo of the young lady was shot with a wide-angle lens. It emphasised her nose and eyes. and made her look alienish. Most unfortunate. My favorite bald woman is LUH in Thx1138.