G20 protest :The Battle of Toronto

The G20 protest has found its Leni Riefenstahl.

You might not be in the mood, in light of recent developments, to appreciate a video so clearly sympathetic to the police but this is nonetheless a beautiful and masterful piece of editing by Miguel Barbosa of Torenveda. That's him by the way yelling into his camera, " This is f*cked up."

Found via Back of the Book.

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An unknown Group 'o Seven painting

apparently depicting the danger of rising sea levels due to global warming has recently surfaced.

Naturally that philistine Big City Lib doesn't much care for it.

Wanted : Device to Root Out Stupid

According to a few local residents, a public park at the foot of Bute St. in Vancouver is evidently no place for a Device to Root Out Evil.

Well, obviously. A device to root out overly sensitive meddlesome Jeebus thumpers should have been installed there first.

The decision to remove the 25' steel, aluminum, and Venetian glass sculpture after 2 1/2 years was approved unanimously by Vancouver Park Board commissioners.

Artist Dennis Oppenheim "has denied any anti-religious design to his sculpture.

"Pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven," he told one interviewer. "It's a very simple gesture."

The Park Board should have responded to the complaints with an even simpler one.