Given that this was years before cannabis legalization, the segment with Berton was considered edgy at the time. Today, there are a number of topics that Mercer would like to rant about, but he says he can always still do it unofficially. I just call people on the phone, and I think they lay the phone down and start making a sandwich or something while I'm ranting," Mercer jokes.
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Join our list Subscribe to our mailing list and get weekly updates on our latest contests, interviews, and reviews. Andrew Powell W. He had unleashed a hell storm that he had absolutely no chance of surviving. The poor, hapless man. To say the oxygen was immediately sucked out of the room would be an exaggeration. To say that the blistering rant my mother delivered to the dumb creature made his ears bleed would not be. Needless to say very soon we were no longer in a cubicle but in a much nicer office upstairs, with a different banker who was doing everything he could to stop my mother from closing every account and going across the street.
Everyone should rant. Ranting not only makes you feel better but occasionally, as my mother proved to me many times, you might get results—justice, satisfaction or a fudge stick. We are busy people and I get that. But the danger in not ranting is dire. Take for example the last federal budget. The omnibus budget. The country exploded with people ranting about our national anthem and oh, what a beautiful sound. They like to play whack-a-mole with the heads and reputations of anyone who has an opinion or a question.
If you in your capacity as a Canadian citizen, taxpayer or Grade 10 student doing a social studies project ask any questions about any pipelines anywhere in Canada, you will be branded by the government as a dangerous radical or a vicious cruel monster in the same league as Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gadhafi, or David Suzuki. This is a pretty effective strategy but I doubt it will last for long.
We are the boss. And if they want to work for us they have to listen to us, answer our questions and occasionally, like all employees, listen to the boss rant. I am not by nature a nervous person. This is a good thing, because in Canada, every time you turn around, another Harper cabinet minister is in a full-blown panic.
And build more prisons. And the Prime Minister?
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