{"id":5030,"date":"2012-11-28T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2012-11-28T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:55:54","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-november-28th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/11\/28\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-november-28th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years ago in Nexus<\/em>: November 28th, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Idiots rule:<\/strong> Words & Thoughts for the Thinking Idiot <\/em>was a column by Alan Callbeck two decades back in these very pages. In our November 30, 1992 issue, Callbeck looked at Canada\u2019s catch-22 economy, and took no prisoners. Responding to claims that Canadians are \u201cwell off,\u201d he said that \u201cthe number crunchers base this perception on gross national product, a number that includes all of the idiotic expenditures of inefficient bureaucracies and policies public, private, and personal. Simply, we are well off because we\u2019ve spent beyond our means for the last two or three decades. All of us.\u201d Ouch!<\/p>\n

Hot stuff: <\/strong>No joking around here: 20 years ago, Camosun was the target of an island arsonist, who set a fire at the Interurban campus that ended up costing $1.5 million. Security had to be stepped up and restrictions put in place to determine who could access buildings between midnight and 7 am.<\/p>\n

Grunge for life: <\/strong>In this issue, we interviewed Seattle grunge rockers Screaming Trees. They never got to the level of a Nirvana or a Pearl Jam, but they had a good time doing what they did, as drummer Barrett Martin explained to Nexus<\/em> writer Dustin Rabin. \u201cIt\u2019s a really fun band, and it\u2019s totally crazed,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen we play a show, we just play the songs, we have a good time, and take care of each other. It\u2019s a good time to be alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Idiots rule: Words & Thoughts for the Thinking Idiot was a column by Alan Callbeck two decades back in these very pages. In our November 30, 1992 issue, Callbeck looked at Canada\u2019s catch-22 economy, and took no prisoners. Responding to claims that Canadians are \u201cwell off,\u201d he said that \u201cthe number crunchers base this perception […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-november-28-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t