if you try to contact me over facebook - especially after i've told you that i don't use it - there's about a 99% chance that i'm going to block you.

i repeat: if you try to contact me over facebook, i will block you.

my actual response to this is that i think it's a little bit hard to believe that the trump administration is actually in the process of sending haitian refugees back to haiti, and that this whole situation is probably in truth an unfortunate example of how bad media - perhaps bad social media - can lead people to behave irrationally.

but, i will repeat that - broadly speaking - i am not opposed to allowing entry to refugees that show up at the border. this can be a difficult journey. it's the idea of sending planes to the other side of the world to bring them here that gets under my skin.

as i've stated previously, i am broadly in favour of allowing what we call "illegal" immigration, but think we need to drastically slow down what we call "legal" immigration.

but, the solution here does not have to do with immigration policy, it has to do with calling the united states and getting a clear answer on what is going on - and then probably sending them back when it's realized that their fears are not well founded.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/border-crossing-quebec-asylum-analysis-wherry-1.4234050

aug 4-5 vlogs, which are two aimless nights out in detroit, where i'm really just going over to check on my bike. 

at this point in time, it was not possible to bring a bicycle back and forth across the border under the tunnel without disassembling it, first. it is now possible to do so. i should be able to drive across the new bridge when it's finished, if i'm still here, and if they do away with unscientific vaccination restrictions.

"that time you almost fell over the trombone player when the marching band suddenly took over the dance floor..."