Twenty-five years after it first conjured up controversy, Dire Straits’ ode to MTV, “Money for Nothing” is front and centre once again because of its lyrical content. I guess everything old truly is new again.

The latest blowup over the song stems from a complaint made by a radio listener in St. John’s, Newfoundland who took issue when the local rock station played the original version of the song. There are two versions of ‘Money For Nothing’, the most commonly-played omits the offending faggot stanza. Read the full story

Toronto has a reputation for its grumpy residents.  It seems as the temperature rises during the run up to Pride and the G20, folks have taken moody to an entirely new level.

Let’s take my friend for example. Since he’s not a computer savvy person, nor even uses one, I’m going to try to tell his story, as I know it.

While crossing at Church St. and Wellesley, the gay village main intersection, Rob (I’ll call him) noticed a fellow who had charted a course to walk right into him as the pedestrian’s attention was focused on texting.  Rob said, “heads up” as he gets out of his way, and the pedestrian yells, “fuck you.”

During this interaction, Rob had stepped slightly in the path of an oncoming wheelchair, which rode over his foot. While riding over his foot a walking cane in the back of the wheelchair popped up and hit this guy on its way back down.

The young fellow (at least younger than my friend) spins around and starts screaming about how Rob just hit a guy in a wheel chair to which he responded, “But you ran over my foot.”

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