so, i came home tonight to a failed attempt to cut the lock on my bicycle storage space. this area is behind a pass code; the suspects are entirely internal, and really relegated solely to the guy with the a/c.

this person has now opened my mail, entered my apartment illegally and tried to cut the lock on my storage space. and, the property owner is just telling me to call the cops.

i'm an anarchist; i have no use for policing. what is a cop going to do? write a report and hand out a warning? make him pay a fine to the queen? what's the use in that?

civil liability is much more useful. this is the great benefit of tort law: it converts liability out of a social contract with the state and into a social contract between human beings. if he is to be found guilty of something, i should be the benefactor, not the government.

i've been over this before: we should abolish criminal law and replace it with tort law. all liability should flow between individuals.

and, conservatives can go shove their precious tort reform up their collective asses.

...but what i really want is neither criminal nor civil proceedings. what i want is for the property owner to law down some rules and enforce them - i want people to stop opening my mail and stop trying to cut my locks. sadly, it's becoming increasingly clear that this isn't going to happen without enforcing very hefty punitive damages.

feral cats do not have rights under the law.

in order to generate protection for a feral cat, you must claim ownership over it - at which point you become liable for the damage and nuisance that it causes to the quality of life of human beings, through waste generation or whatever other annoyance. i would be ecstatic if somebody would claim ownership over the local cats, as i could send bylaw after them for the waste problem. oops?

the idea that we have some obligation to live in the filth of wild animals is called barbarism. and, if you do not enjoy living inside of civilization, i would gladly invite you to leave it.

i have no patience for stupidity of this sort.

...and, if it was up to me, we'd round them all up and incinerate them.

"is she single?" - dennis rodman

the north koreans are rational actors, though.

just ask dennis rodman.

it's true. and, that's what actually defines their bluster: it's all very calculated to play the superpowers off against each other and get another shipment of food.

so, what does a rational actor do in response to trump's threats? nothing at all, really. and, you shouldn't expect much, either.

the sad part about this is that when trump looks at the north korean dictator, what he's actually seeing is his own reflection. for, this is what trump actually aspires to: the ability to bluster and bullshit your way into forcing the world to do what you want it to do.

and, the irony is that trump may very well be the man that america needed to send to north korea, for that reason: the regime may have met it's equal, and may be forced to stand down.

where i'm going to be, in downtown detroit, should be dark enough to catch quite a bit of it.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/perseid-meteor-shower-2017-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/84888/

i actually don't have any particular opposition to iran joining the nuclear club.