Ahh, the glorious dregs of the barrel of humanity only retail seems able to bring out.

The mall is closed while an uncontrolled, destructive anarchist mob roams the city? THIS IS THE END OF CIVIL LIBERTY AS WE KNOW IT! THE POLICE ARE OUT FOR OUR FREEDOM!!

I'm ashamed of this species sometimes.

Tomorrow there'll be another lunatic doing the same thing when the mall closes for Canada Day.

I think there are certain merits for keeping an animal such as this in captivity. It does (or at least I hope it does) teach people to respect other creatures on this planet. Too see an 8,000 kg mammal move so fast and to jump clear out of water is something that probably should be seen, by as many people as possible. I applaud Sea World for that.

But to exploit their intelligence for cutesy tricks is a phenomenal waste, to ever assume such a powerful and extremely intelligent animal is "tame" is absolutely stupid, and to keep them in enclosures so small is cruel.

My sympathies go to the family, but I feel the same way toward this as I do toward the loss of astronauts: they know and accept the dangers of the job, and they died doing something they thought worthwhile.

Yet a (large) part of me congratulates the orca. Humanity could use the lesson that nature can still f*** us up.

Conrad Bain is from my home city and I had absolutely no clue.

No Cobra Commander?

He was pretty much entirely incompetent but he stole the Eiffel tower and burned all the cash in the USA.

The Italians still have one Gallardo police car. Lamborghini donated two of them.

I absolutely loved Pepsi Twist and still miss it.

Batman and Robin makes for a fantastic drinking game experience, I'll give it that.

I'm born and raised in Lethbridge, and Vulcan is the only place I've ever seen a llama-drawn cart go through a Burger Baron drive-through. I so desperately wish I took a picture of it. That town is...odd.

Canada geese are not to be messed with. I've been attacked by one on a golf course and at a birds-of-prey center (go figure...). They're just pure evil.

This article is nothing but a childish attack on McDonald's and an oh-so-tired soap-boxing crusade against the Hummer.

The Hummer is still a relatively low-volume product, and it is obvious they require quite a lot of petroleum resources to run. But there just aren't enough of them to make a lick of difference to the environment. They are thoroughly modern vehicles that expel a fraction of the various gases emitted by economy cars 10 or 20 years old.

The rest of the article reads like one of those "fact-filled" chain e-mails we all despise.

You don't like McDonald's? Don't eat there. Problem solved.

I fail to see why these people have a spot on The Learning Channel. What does anyone stand to learn from these people? How to have a ridiculous number of children? We're all capable of that. These people will never be able to give their children an opportunity to be more than their parents were. These kids are formed and pressed carbon-copies. I pity them. So much human potential wasted.

I've stayed there. Its an incredibly beautiful hotel, right on the river. The elephants walk right on through because there are no front doors - the building housing the reception desk is completely open. At least this way the elephants can walk on through without breaking anything. They had to fence off the pool to keep a particular hippo out and monkeys roam the grounds.

It costs a bloody fortune to stay there but it is worth every penny.

Makes sense to me. While they're at it, they could remove a couple rows of seats so people with, you know, LEGS could comfortably sit in a Jazz plane.

I paid a bloody fortune for one of those Ferrari shirts! Lucky kids get them free.

Well that was nice of him. Still doesn't make up for Batman and Robin though.