the show last night was...

they play short sets. that's how it is.

it was good, but too short.

i was there way too early; my bike is ridable in the short term, but probably going to literally crumble in my hands at some point. i'm not going to bring it back to canada. i'll just ride it until it dies. i'll probably bring something to clean the rust off, next time. if i can get a year out of it, it was a bargain. it won't last another winter...unless i can get it in somewhere, like the trumbullplex.

they might let me do it. they have space.

as i was there early, i pre-drank a lot, and i ended up pretty drunk. so, i'm actually just coming to in any serious sense, just now. i smell like the fire pit at el club, and need to shower.

i'm developing a love-hate relationship with el club. the sound is great, and the crowd is always solid. but, the shows end before midnight. consistently. the band was done at 11:50, and i just don't know if the set was or could have been longer.

but, i know that they do this - that they have this attachment to half hour sets as an inherently punk thing.

and, they consequently rarely play older songs.

there were a few points in the show where i had this different understanding of them, as an off-broadway kind of operatic show tune act. her vocals are becoming the central focus of what the band is doing, and i do think that the whole thing is shifting in the process.

but, this isn't a full review, which i'm very behind on.

trump is complicit in the ongoing catastrophe in yemen and is responsible for a couple of stupid stunts in syria.

but, let us stop to pause for a moment.

clinton - yugoslavia
bush - iraq & afghanistan
obama - libya, yemen, ukraine & syria
trump - has not started a war, yet.

let that sink in for a minute.

right now, trump is the only president in modern history that hasn't started a war.

and, frankly, if he holds to that, he may end up the lesser evil in the next cycle.

it's a shame that he's so terrible on the climate....which is really what the democrats should be running on in the next cycle...

According to reports in the immediate aftermath of the attack, the strikes involved the first combat use of the JASSM advanced missile, reportedly fired from US B1-B Lancer heavy bombers.

i might actually suggest that these ads don't have a lot of reach anymore.

i don't have a tv, and i run an adblocker. that was the only time i'll see this ad. and, i'm likely to forget about it altogether in 5....4....3....2...1...

http://nationalpost.com/news/ontario-liberals-launching-first-campaign-ad-ahead-of-election-focus-on-ford

if you're of a certain age, you probably had paul mccartney sing you to sleep for a substantive amount of your childhood.

that's how you knew it was bedtime.

or, if you're really lucky, a drunk dad doing a paul mccartney impression, albeit only on select occasions.

what?

i have memories of my parents (my dad, actually...) using that song as a life lesson.

kids like music. they learn better through song. that's why kids shows are full of music.

i learned all kinds of things from classic rock. really.

but, somebody missed that life lesson, i think.

hey, justin.

did your mom ever play you this one?

this is a valid point.

but, it's an argument to pull out of nafta, not an argument to complete the pipeline.

http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-ottawas-next-big-pipeline-problem-kinder-morgan-suing-us-through-nafta

this is a much better explanation than anything you'll see in the tory media.

https://www.desmog.ca/2018/04/13/they-re-not-getting-how-constitution-works-why-trudeau-notley-can-t-steamroll-b-c-kinder-morgan-pipeline

i agree.

justin trudeau is teaching us a very valuable lesson about aristocracy. the tory media, ever a mouthpiece for inherited wealth, really isn't helping the situation by confusing people - perhaps including the prime minister - about the nature of a federal system.

i don't actually think that it makes sense for alberta to be in a confederation with ontario.

but, what trudeau is showing us is that he doesn't understand the law. and, why would he? what training does he have?

he's operating solely on the "whining rich kid" level. and, that's exactly what he's going to do in this meeting he's scheduled with horgan - he's going to cry and whine and stamp his feet and yell that he's not getting his own way.

because he always gets his own way - that's the nature of the kind of privilege he grew up in.

and why he was always a terrible choice for any sort of executive position.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/04/14/news/quebec-warns-trudeau-about-kinder-morgan

geez, guys, everybody knows it's never the cook.

it's always the butler.

c'mon. those are the really important sanctions.

https://www.thestar.com/news/analysis/2018/02/17/russian-indictments-appear-to-target-putins-cook.html

i don't know if there were chemical weapons used in syria.

past attacks have been orchestrated by us-friendly rebels in order to instigate or justify american bombing runs.

it would not justify a unilateral airstrike, if there were. that should go through the united nations.

but, i don't believe a word that the united states says.

so, they bombed some empty factories.

now, trump can go on the talkshows and be the military guy for a few days. and the news can focus on something besides the scandals for a few days.

russia has to sound tough. but they shouldn't overreact. the key needs to be in using that deconfliction line to make sure the targets are understood beforehand.

and, hopefully the united states is not far from more responsible military oversight.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-attack-syria-1.4617438