Pubdate: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 Source: NOW Magazine (CN ON) Copyright: 2007 NOW Communications Inc. Contact: http://www.nowtoronto.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/282 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n947/a03.html Author: Andrew Ryan Fox IRONY OR JUST A COINCIDENCE? I hate to drop the Alanis Morissette label on you, but I'm gonna be the English geek for just a second here. A lawyer named Roach fighting against pot laws is coincidence, not irony (NOW, August 9-15). If a lawyer named Roach were defending tough pot laws on behalf of the government, a case could be made for it being ironic (situational irony occurring when the results of a situation are far different from what's expected), but otherwise it's not. Now, obviously, your first reaction will be to call me a stickler or anal or something like that, but y'all led with it, and you're supposed to be writers. Don't be cliches. No one wants to be compared to Alanis. Andrew Ryan Fox Toronto - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman