rants

Dr. Dawg lambasts Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien today in a post titled Bull in a china shop : Watching him fumble and blunder his way from gaffe to gaffe has aroused a certain Schadenfreude in progressive quarters. But his unsavoury combination of staggering ineptitude, unruffled self-confidence and adolescent tough talk is little short of a tragedy for Ottawa. ...

Out Of Left Field blogger Neate Sager is not a fan of a proposed plan to convert Lynx Stadium into a covered soccer field. ** ** "The sports-illiterate politicians never hesitate to deal the baseball fans who do come out in Ottawa a a slap in the face," ...

Canuckflack wonders why bus riders aren’t looking out the window along the Ottawa River Parkway: So why are all the mindless automatons blindly staring towards the front of the bus, their hands tightly gripping one of three things: their coffee, their briefcase, or the handrail on the seat in front of them? ...

Over on David Reevely’s Great Ottawa Blog, there are 38 nominations (and counting) for Ottawa’s worst OC Transpo bus route . ** A sample comment: ** I vote for the 2, because it represents the worst of public transportation: Unreliable: So late or early that it's common to see 2 together after waiting an hour. ...

Ottawa Citizen blogger Peter Simpson has a lot to say about the quality of Super Ex concerts . A sample: Ottawa's "Super Ex," now on in Lansdowne Park, has long been known for an annual concert lineup that is - how to put it - not seen as cutting edge. ...

Alec Saunders has a good argument against security cameras in public spaces. Vernon White, Ottawa’s new police chief, wants to install cameras in the downtown core to help cut crime. Here’s a sampling of Alec’s post, titled Ottawa’s Panopticon : ...

From today’s edition of the City Journal, columnist Mark Bourrie rants about OC Transpo . A sample: ...Make the routes so complicated that, if you get on a bus on, say, Elgin Street, you’ll have no idea where you’ll end up. ...

** From knitnut.net : ** After reading [ Christina Blizzard’s assessment of Ottawa as a city rotting at its core ](http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Blizzard_Christina/2007/07/13/4335721.html) , it occurred to me that perhaps I don’t get out enough. According to Blizzard, you can eat lunch on the patio of a posh downtown restaurant while watching literally dozens of drug deals and countless people sitting around smoking crack in broad daylight. ...

BOB FM’s Sandy Sharkey has a great post on her blog today, calling out people who complain about Bluesfest : "Again this year the ‘lawn chair people’ are battling the ‘standers’. People are also complaining about the line-ups, the location, the noise, the weather, the sun’s glare off the river, the grass not being soft enough, the beer cup lids not being tight enough, the people in the VIP section looking too happy, the hand-washing water outside the porta-potties not being cold enough, the sun going down too early, the sun going down too late, why are bikes not allowed inside the venue, the tiny tom donuts have too much sugar on them, there’s mustard on my shoe and I didn’t put it there. ...