Saw this at Dot-Dot-Dot: The Beeb is running a two-hour show on Sunday that looks back at Coventry's 2-Tone ska label. And you can vote online for your favourite song of 10 they put forward.

That means we're talking tunes by the Specials, the Selecter, the Beat -- but for some reason unbeknownst to me, Madness's fantastic One Step Beyond isn't on the list. Nor did I see Lip Up Fatty, by Bad Manners.

This has me rejecting the validity of the entire exercise.

Globe and Mail columnist Russell Smith analyzes how the story of a confrontation between a litterbug and a hardcore anti-litterer in Kensington Market turned into news.

I offer some counter-thoughts.