Esoteric Nazi Labelism

The anonymous nature of the internet has long been a source of irk for people that like open and honest debate. It's too easy for people to duck behind a handle and lob hate-filled tirades at such diverse targets as Barack Obama, the Cincinnati Reds and filmmaker Ridley Scott. Now I believe in Freedom of Speech as a foundation for our whole, you know, society, but part-in-parcel with that freedom is responsibility. 

So when someone who goes by the moniker "Serious Cynic" compares our local government to Nazi Germany, it means it's time to reach back and remember some words written here and here.

We're Mad About What Now? (Part 2)

Yay! The splash pad in front of City Hall is officially open, and on the first week of summer, with sky high temperatures, it was proverbial kismet. The timing was either karmic or shrewd depending on who we thank for it. With such a wonderful, and refreshing, addition to downtown, who could possibly be angry?

If you said the merchants of Carden Street, you must be psychic. Not enough to be front row centre in one of the busiest new areas in town, and not enough to have survived the long drought of over five-years of construction, but now people are parking in their spaces in front of their stores because they're using the facilities in front of City Hall. Quelle horreur. How is someone expected to run a business when people can't park directly in front of the place?