My Very First Impression After Reading “Baby Invasion”

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• You know, when a magazine like that resorts to a story about how babies are taking up spaces in restaurants, life is probably pretty good where you live.

  Seriously, did you guys at Toronto Life run out of stories to cover?

• @Watts: Well, they also did a story on illegal cheese. Illegal cheese is the bourgeois crystal meth!

• MMMmmmMMm forbidden Stilton.

• I think my favourite part of the article were that there was one photographed subject name "Che" and one photographed subject named "Riel". That's *awesome*. On so many levels.

• @Bob Tarantino: "Che" in some cases is forgivable; it was a reasonably common Spanish nickname before got all that baggage associated with Ernesto Guevara. Giving him a hard time for that name in the absence of context is like giving me a hard time because Stalin and I have essentially the same name.

  However, this guy's last name is Stipanovich, so the odds of his being named after Guevara are pretty good, and hence worthy of eye rolling.

  The real sprain-your-muscles-from-rolling-your-eyes name has to go tot he kid named Riel, whose dad describes his job as "activist and web developer". American readers -- who make up the vast majority of people who visit this blog -- may not get the context. The name "Riel" is likely to be a tribute to Louis Riel, who's viewed as a sort of revolutionary hero by those on the Canadian left and a traitor by those on the right.