Do you really think....

...much will change at St. Michael's School in the wake of the scandal?  Frankly, I don't.  It will just go further underground and get worse -- especially for those who blew the whistle.  It's all a right-of-passage which has gone on forever.  Heck, I remember frosh week at Carleton, during which we were dragged around and made to do very dumb -- but fun -- stuff. 

And you could not say "no"; you just had to go with it.  Now, I admit using weapons to abuse the boys was pretty brutal, but that's just how things escalate.  Think William Golding's classic 1954 'Lord of the Flies'; think Patty Hearst and the "Stockholm Syndrome".  That's how it all works.  That's how cults work -- and many religions too. 

In fact, engineering students at Queen`s are still the worst and nothing changes.  Engineers are engineers.  Get over it because they can't get over themselves.  When daughter was there, the engineering dorm had signs plastered in the windows saying, " 'No' means more beer!"
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Here's another one I don't get:  `Black Friday`.  Why do we have this in Canada?  Our Thanksgiving was weeks ago, so this is not ours.  But, stupidly, forgetting it was "Black Friday", B and I went to Market Mall yesterday to find it swarming!  I actually had time to drink an entire glass of wine in the time it took poor B to circle and circle the parking lot trying to grab a space!

p.s.  We didn't buy anything.  Here is a sad depiction: