ttc striiiiiiiiike.

Does any union have as much leverage in Toronto as the one the TTC workers are in? Set to put Torontonians in jeopardy again, Monday is the tentative day for the new strike. What would be nice is if the TTC workers could create a 10- or 15-year plan to negotiate from, so strikes didn't seem to come so frequently.

Aside from being stranded, I don't think the public was on their side to begin with, judging from the negative buzz the TTC gets.

yup, i still guess that big dies in the sex and the city movie

So, via Perez, Cynthia Nixon admits that one of the characters from the film dies. Uh-huh.

That's what I said.

Unless this is some jumbo meta-mind-screw that the producers have hatched up, buh-bye Chris Noth.

time most influential a definite joke

The problem with a rating system is that it's too easy to give a "0" and it pulls down the person's rank immensely. Hence, see Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both out of the top 30 (!) now. Obama sits at 40, with 48 "points," and Clinton sits at 172, with 30 "points." Won't it be egg on Time's face when the first viable female candidate for president doesn't even make their list?

Obviously, the list judges popularity, not influence. Influence can impact a person positively or negatively. For example, Fidel Castro had huge influence. Judging his influence versus his popularity are two entirely different things. Clinton may divide voters, but that refers to her popularity, not her influence.

I could go on and on about how this list is really silly and how Time should have more class than to put something like this up, but, who cares? What influence do I have?