Les Bonnes Choses

I normally think of The Globe and Mail as being a slightly more high-brow sort of newspaper. After all, I can't tell you how many times I've opened up the pages to see a multi-million dollar house featured in its pages, and rarely does the Drive automotive section review anything but the sort of car you might find in the driveway of a medical specialist or financial broker. When I became a regular visitor to their online presence, I thus found it rather incongruous to see discussion questions at the end of most of their stories -- questions like, "Do you think minimum prison terms should be raised?" following a story about some incorrigible convict re-offending after being released. CBC.ca has long allowed readers to comment on their stories, and I have often been pulled into reading the train wrecks that take place there. It wasn't until recently that they re-vamped the commenting system to allow comments to be easily hidden that I could avoid the temptation. Incidentally, their commenting system is still broken, as submissions go into moderator limbo unless you've posted a sufficient number of comments. In other words, they've filtered out the run-of-the-mill idiots, and now only allow blathering idiots to post.

They must have changed things around at the Globe and Mail, as at the end of this story, where I was expecting to read "Is 29 too young be a grandparent? Are young parents more in-tune with their kids?" they seem to have done away with their discussion question, and thus provide the uninformed with absolutely no guidance at all.

The title of this post? That's a reference to this clip from That Mitchell and Webb Look.



That pretty much sums up what I think about people sometimes. It's unfortunate. I fear it might also be a sign I'm a bit of a jerk.

Update: The Globe and Mail are back to their hard-hitting questions. Should one can of soup be considered one serving? I would agree without hesitation! Because if the Eurozone countries should -- wait, soup? Nevermind.