we're simply not post-racial, yet. and, i'll be the first to push back against the idea that we're post-gender. but, we've certainly made enough process that i'm going to get flat out hostile with anybody that starts throwing around appeals to gender in this election cycle.

i'm talking about things like "women need to stick together". fuck off. leave your knitting club in the nineteenth century. fuck the groupthink: assert your individuality. use your own brain. don't let others think for you.

it hasn't been bad, yet. i'm seeing signs. stop. and, i'd actually like to hear some leadership from the candidate on this point.

j reacts to the rare election poll from pew

pew research is not an unbiased source - their international polling is often done on behalf of intelligence interests - but they are a bit of a special case in the sense that they have a specialized audience.

when a media institution does a poll, it's intended audience is it's readers and so you need to mentally adjust for the various biases. when pew does a poll, the intended audience is....how to say this...washington. "serious people". they consequently have a heightened level of importance.

that doesn't mean they're more right. it just means that the results reflect what a component of the inside wants another component of the inside to think.

trump at 37 is not particular impressive. but, clinton at 41 is surprisingly low.

it's curious to me that pew's results are quite similar to breitbart's, given that this was the poll that breitbart apparently commissioned to "correct the skew".

17-08-2016: not quite a day without electricity, but it's humbling to consider it

tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1

do we still seriously doubt that anything besides flooding was the dominant factor?

well, first of all let's take a moment to reflect that almost nobody knows that st. louis was conquered and renamed rather than settled.

but, i think we have enough background now to realize that this is going to be a challenging region to settle, long term. floods. tornadoes. kind of makes migrating seem rational, huh?

i don't mean to trivialize what's happening in the delta. but, if you live there, you might want to get out before you drown. this is now a persistent problem that is not going to get better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

most police officers i've met should consider it an honour to be elevated to the role of social worker.

we need less thugs on patrol and more social programs that get at root causes. what a frustrating headline.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-dallas-poverty-idUSKCN10Q0VE?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=morefromreuters

my perspective - and i've actually stated this repeatedly - is that open racism is actually trump's best, only chance. he had a decent tactic with libertarians at one point, but the window is long closed.

i've said this about hillary a bunch of times, too. i don't like what he's doing. but, it's actually his best move - so long as he's setting the audience up for something. all the hate and crazy on it's own will sputter out to nowhere. it needs the visual.

keep an eye out for it, and...

see, the best way to stop it from working is to plant the seed. now who's the conspiracy theorist?

madness. but, with these candidates, it could be nothing else.