but, seriously.

the next time that harper gets together with his buddies to do his oldies set at the corner bar, he should make this song front and centre. he should work it into his regular setlist...

the true prime sinister? well, maggie did a lot of serious harm. maybe if the british had a constitution, she couldn't have.

again: i don't know of any real comparison. he ruled for almost a decade, and he didn't do anything substantial except write case law in the process of getting smacked down by the courts over and over and over again. but, because of that, his legacy will outlive almost everybody.

he will live on in infamy for decades to come.

harper never expected this to hold up, it was just red meat for his base. there's a dozen or so examples of this, too.

it's easy to give him shit for wasting everybody's time but that's actually not the right way to look at it in the longer lens of history. i've stated repeatedly that harper's most enduring - and perhaps singular - legacy is going to be all of the laws that he had struck down. he's actually going to end up as a very important prime minister, for that reason alone. he's done more to shape constitutional law than any other leader since the elder trudeau.

100 years from now, nobody's going to be able to cite anything he wrote or anything he built. but, law students will study the multiple important and enduring precedents that were set when his laws were struck down.

i really don't know of anybody that's comparable. anywhere.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-court-citizenship-act-1.4108346

it sounds to me like what they need is a dam up the ottawa to slow the tributaries down. i guess that at the time they built the seaway, ottawa was mostly just sending logs down the river, and nobody was really worried about climate change.

if you need a dam, it's worth a turbine.

this is actually a good example of what i was hoping the infrastructure bank would be used for.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/flooding-along-st-lawrence-could-worsen-if-ny-politics-wins/82113/

no.

the light is a circuit.

so, either:

1) the electricity is coming in, and not coming back or
2) it's never getting in at all.

a measurable voltage difference still doesn't absolutely mean it's getting there. but, it would be pretty obscure, i'd think...

it also heated up on me, indicating the current is moving.

i'm going to need to try to reflow it. i just need to figure out where it's cut, and i'm going to need some help to do it.

i wonder if i could try hackforge. hrmmn.

this laptop...

there's a guy in town who will identify things. he may even have a heat gun. i think i want to go down this route:

1) figure out where the break is.
2) see if i can reflow it.

i could always even be wrong.

see, i'm not understanding the led in the power jack. is the led supposed to tell you the circuit is complete, or that the jack is receiving power? because the circuit completion seems superfluous. what i want to know is if the jack is broken. i would want the led to tell me the jack works, and the dead led to mean the jack is busted.

but, i might be being clinically rational at my own peril. again. reality isn't a fucking logic gate, j.

but the existence of a current, after all, doesn't necessarily mean the jack isn't broken. it's more than a relay. i may have tricked myself.

so, why don't i bring the thing in and see if i can get him to test it better. i won't pay him $40 for a jack, but i'll at least buy it from him. and, if it's not the jack, maybe we can figure out where the break is and see if we can heat gun it. i might pay him $40 for that if it works. or, if he doesn't have a heat gun, maybe i can hit it with a hair dryer.

if not, maybe i can sell him the board and the parts i don't want. what i'll have left is 4 gb of ram that i'm going to want to convert into 2 gb of ram, and maybe a square monitor if he's willing.

i'm done the video editing for court. i'm going to just take the 90s laptop. so, the last thing i need to do is compile documents.

andrew weaver should put the ndp in power and make them hold to their promises - or suffer the consequences.

as an environmentalist, albeit a distant eastern one, this is kind of a dream scenario. i don't at all trust the ndp. the greens have a unique opportunity, here, to put them in power and then pull the plug if they don't perform - or stand back and let them govern, if they do.

no, you don't under...

i would have held a press conference, in prime time, on the first day...

"you're fired."

i would have filmed him being escorted out of the building, too.

why?

ok - it's good theatre, granted. but, it also sends the message that what he did wasn't ok, and that just because it advantaged me doesn't mean i'm going to look the other way.

if you're going to criticize him for firing this goof, the basis of the criticism should be that he took so long to do it.

i would have fired james comey as my first act, as president.