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Happy Belated Birthday

That's right. Cox Bloc (pictured above) celebrated its first birthday on August 12th. Godd Till and I had a quiet little get together on Tuesday, where we marveled at how our beloved little bastard had grown. Over cupcakes and apple juice we discussed all the great times we've had during the last year. Like that time we made fun of Steve Simmons. And that other time when we were critical of Howard Berger for a lazy and intellectually dishonest column. And who can forget that time when we gave a sports reporter a mocking nickname based on one of their particular foibles. Oh, the good times we've had.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who has helped Cox Bloc get through this difficult first year. It has been a blast.

Birds of a Feather

Imagine how shitty I felt this morning when, less than a day after publishing my thoughts on Canada's starving Olympic athletes, I opened the Toronto Sun and discovered that I share the same views as Michael Coren on the subject of government subsidies for amateur sport.

Of course, I managed to get through my rant with out settling some lame grudge against Stephen Lewis and Michele Landsberg by taking personal cheap-shots at their son, and I'm sure Mr. Coren and I have very different ideas on how our government should allocate our resources, but it is still kind of scary.

I mean, wouldn't you be worried if you shared the same beliefs on any subject with a man who advocated nuking Iran, equates homosexuals with pedophiles and nazis, and regularly uses his column to smear Muslims with paranoid and hateful attacks?

So..........

I take it all back. Our athletes are tragically underfunded and our government should be doing more to support them. Hell, we should all be doing more to support them. Why, just this morning I threw a handful of quarters at the neighbour's kid while he was trampolining in the backyard. Hopefully he remembers me when he owns the podium at the 2016 Olympics.

I suggested yesterday that the government may want to consider funding social housing before equestrian programs, but seriously, any money they save by not supporting amateur sport is going to get wasted on things like extravagant catering bills for high-level bureaucratic meetings and Tony Clement's salary before it ever gets distributed to this country's most needy.

If we're going to throw money away, we may as well give it to our best and brightest sword-fighters and boat-racers. Especially if its gonna piss Michael Coren off. Maybe that, combined with the picture below of gay muslims parading through the streets of New York, will be enough to make his shiny hate-filled head explode with rage. Here's hoping, anyway.