Monday, September 29, 2025

i did not inhale that hummus.
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bill wants to know where the kebabs are.

what's the best shwarma place in the strip, anyway?

eh. sit down. have a falafel. hey; mo! where you going with that gun in your hand? let's have a little talk instead.
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tony blair was one of the people involved in the good friday agreement, and he was around during oslo. it's not so crazy.

you might ask the obvious question: why not ask bill clinton, then? i suppose there might be some political issues with that.

if it fails, it will be a great punchline, but if it works it'll look pretty smart, from a distance.
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the funnest thing about making fun of tony blair is you get to imagine him trying to argue with you.

now, just one minute, that is not fair.

meh.
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hey, it's been years since i got to drop any tony blair jokes, almost as long as it's been since blair got to drop any bombs. i'm excited. really.
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i was thinking maybe the turks might be the most reasonable party to lead an international un peacekeeping mission, not donald trump & tony blair, but this is more or less what i've been saying for years. actually. in fact.

i will say that deprogramming and denazifying the palestinians is going to be very hard. nobody is thinking this, but the truth is that new labour psychology just might be our best hope to debrainwash them.

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i'm not a christian.

i'm a very strict atheist - an evangelical atheist, even. i very strongly believe there's no god and want to spread the good news about it, which is that you're free. like, really free. there's no greater expression of freedom than godlessness.

i kind of like pagans, though; not in a literal, religious sense, but in a cultural, indigenous sense. i think that rejecting semitic religion and reembracing indigenous religion is a prerequisite to saving the planet; not in the sense of taking it literally, but in the sense of changing the culture. further, i hold to the general intellectual consensus that buddhism is the most advanced and mature religion out there, and the one to take half-seriously if you want to learn something and live better.
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these losers suck. their music is trash.

that's no reason to restrict artistic expression, and canadians should be deeply collectively embarrassed about this.

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i support this in principle, but this is unconstitutional. it's just going to get torn down.

the problem is that the federal government is decriminalizing drug use, and that it's largely following the direction of the courts, and this is in fact largely correct. if you own your body, you have the right to abuse it any way you want, including pumping it full of poison. and, really, if you can afford it and aren't bothering anybody, who has the right to tell you to stop? nobody does.

the problem is when you can't afford it, and resort to crime to pay for it, and when you are bothering somebody, like taking over streets and yards. so, you need to criminalize those activities, and then arrest people and charge them for it, and then you need to strengthen those sentences. then you need to give the addicts treatment as a way out of jail, in terms of bargaining with them. that's how you get them into treatment, you tell them the other option is they go to jail, and then you follow through and send them to jail if that's their preference.

you're never going to convince the supreme court that this is legal, not even with an oakes test.

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i think the ostriches should be quarantined and tested one by one.

those that test positive for the virus should in fact unfortunately be destroyed. but those that test negative should be allowed to live.

i don't understand why this is difficult. imagine killing all the old people at an old folks home when one person gets covid. it's fear-based, not science based. these tests should get results nowadays within minutes. it's not the dark ages; this isn't the plague.

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is this why we have government?

is this what taxes are collected for?

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if government isn't using tax dollars to provide services like mail delivery, why bother having a government at all?
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the best way to ensure that the government has enough funds to provide services like canada post is to increase taxes on the middle class, who have received too many tax breaks for far too long. the fact that the government is talking about eliminating mail delivery - a key purpose of government for centuries - is reflective of it's shrinking tax revenues, due to decades of right-wing government mismanagement, which has led to structural deficits that are going to collapse the functioning of society if not corrected.
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the way the news is describing canada post is incoherent. 

- canada post is not a private corporation. it cannot become insolvent.
- mail delivery is not a product, it's a service
- canada post does not have shareholders. it's mandate is not to run a profit.
- there is no consequence of canada post running at a loss other than that it's not being sufficiently funded.

the simplest, easiest solution is for the bank of canada to print the money required to eliminate canada post's debt. it's that simple.

however, if this service requires greater government funding in the future, then government should simply fund it.
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