i'm glad that they didn't walk down this path, as they would have just ended up paying out damages.

i think that 'not criminally responsible' should mean no chance of parole, myself - it should be the strongest possible sentence, not a reason for leniency. reintegration necessitates an ability to understand what was done.

i'm more interested in this person's history of prescription drug use than i am in his reading habits on the internet.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/terrorism-charges-edmonton-attacks-1.4316450

here's the thing about gun control: whether it works or not depends on whether you want it. but, it's not at the actual root cause of anything, good or bad.

we have far more gun control in canada than in the united states, and we're able to enforce it - because we want it. gun control is actually quite popular, here. i'm 36 years old and i've actually never seen a gun before. nor do i feel like i'm missing out on anything.

but, is it the gun control that is the reason that we have less gun violence? no. rather, it's the fact that we don't have a culture of guns that makes us more willing to voluntarily uphold the rules around gun control.

this is how you get gun control to work: you have to get the community together to willingly destroy their arms. make it a party. a celebration.

this is how gun control doesn't work: you send cops around door-to-door demanding people hand over their weapons. then, they're moved underground, and the gun culture proliferates.

so, i'm broadly in favour of gun control. but, i know better than to think that it's going to solve the problems that america has with gun violence. these problems are cultural and need deeper fixes than that.

this...

...i'm torn over what to do with this.

i understand why i shouldn't be selling it, but i also want the release inside of my physical discography. and the truth is that i'm not actually solving any problems if i put the thing up for download for the price of a physical disc, then don't offer it - i'm not actually addressing the problem i've posed for myself.

i have three releases that are cassette only. besides that, the only recordings i've left download only are inri022 (which is rejected tracks; this is not a really interesting release) and inri032 (which is a covers disc, and may be released some day - this is potentially temporary). these tracks were discarded, but they are not rejected in the same way that the ones on the rejected comp were. they were just remixed, actually.

i'm toying with the idea of flipping it around, and providing the download at a trivial price ($1) and offering the recording at a normal price. that would allow for the physical disc to exist in the collection, and yet allow for (almost) free downloads.

i need to nap. i'll work this out when i wake up.

i don't think the west should be at war against islam, so much as i think it should be at war with religion, in general.

something that stood out about donald trump during the primaries is that he campaigned strongly against dubya's legacy, including being highly critical of his katrina response. he stated repeatedly that he'd be a lot better.

and, the reason he sided with the democrats on the debt ceiling is that he didn't want to jeopardize relief funding, because he's aware of the political liabilities.

the error that joy reid made with this piece is that she published it too early, thereby demonstrating that she's attempting to frame a narrative.

i don't know what the reality is on the ground in puerto rico. i know that the official death toll is currently set at 16. and i know that the democrats are politicizng something that they ought not to be politicizing.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/puerto-rico-has-become-trumps-katrina

i don't think that what happened in edmonton should be referred to as "terrorism"; the only argument i've seen that this was a terrorist attack is that the attacker happens to be muslim.

it strikes me more as a mental health issue.