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individual human rights are not determined by plebiscite.

obviously, his opinion is of no concern to anybody, and the number of signatures he gets is of no consequence, whatsoever.

i'm going to start a petition telling derek sloan to fuck off.

this inbred retard should mind his own business. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/tory-mp-sloan-sponsors-e-petition-calling-for-moratorium-...

shutting down nightclubs at this stage of the pandemic is just stupid.

i've met people like bonnie henry. they're incapable of failing. they don't know how. they can't be given positions like...

i'm not in bc, but this is potentially next here as well... i'm not blaming people for existing. i'm blaming the government ...

we have the grid in canada, but we're not using it - and our politicians have been making it harder to use it, not easier to use it. s...

"we just need to keep pounding at the deplorables, until they get it."

"He just needs to keep pounding on the message," said Ohio Representative Tim Ryan, a Democrat. "He’s right on point and just...

"i honestly don't know the answer to that." is the most intelligent phrase in the english language.

being smart doesn't mean you know all the answers. being smart means admitting when you don't know the answers, and having the hum...

i will frequently attack people as ignorant, and be right. but i won't call them uneducated. and, there's a big difference - bec...

trying to frame the election as the educated v the uneducated is kind of elitist, and smug. and, it's bullshit - the data doesn't ba...

this almost seems like it was written in reaction to me. i don't have any particular gripe. i don't think people vote based on the...

and, yes, he was a habs fan.

he was vaguely deist, but not really....the truth is that he didn't really think about religion long enough to really form a serious bel...

the ritual was that he'd go for brunch with me when my stepmother was at church, then go home and watch the game... i'd say that w...

it was weird to dream, today, about having brunch with my dad, though, something i used to do fairly often when he was alive. more or less w...

i wanted to do a million things today, but i passed out early this morning, instead. the air in here is way, way, way better. finally. ...

they need to get the fucking bill out already before (more) people start dying on the fucking streets.

it seems beyond disingenuous to create a crisis by obstructing legislation, then blame the situation on the republicans, then offer a soluti...

now, that doesn't mean that the bill is going to be perfect, or that the democrats shouldn't criticize it or campaign against it. ...

so, if the government can't get anything passed, it's the opposition that needs to take responsibility for obstructing it.

no. stop. the republicans have the presidency and  the senate. they get to write the legislation, right now - the democrats can pass t...

ok. but, it was the democrats that refused to pass the bill. now, they're playing political games about it. your anger should be dir...

people are just so fucking ignorant... https://no-smoke.org/indoor-air-pollution-from-marijuana-emissions-as-bad-as-the-worst-wildfires/

so, i wasn't able to escape that particularly vicious round of air pollution from upstairs, and it knocked me right the fuck out. the ...

actually, this is another potential major source of clean electricity that ought to be fully explored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal...

it's this error that people have been making for centuries - they look for this concept of progress  in history. hegel was the worst, ...

generally, periods of....i'm going to use the word repression rather than regression....but, there's always a backlash, eventually. ...

i mean, there was quite a bit of talk about this being the new gilded age, right? the snowflakes are just the new victorians, in that sens...

remember, though: we got rid of the victorians. we can get rid of the snowflakes, too.

so, let's listen to genesis p'orridge paraphrase some oscar wilde over what sounds like a download outtake. full treatment in...

listen, cia spooks... if my pen is my sword, i may slay a few beasts. i won't apologize. it wouldn't be honest.

yes, i tend to stand up for that woman. she's been viciously abused her whole life, and it just.....doesn't.....stop. when was t...

i guess the corporate fascists would rather she buy a slave to make her a new outfit every day. the stupidity is really astounding. http...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-518499/Buddhist-monk-cut-pieces-run-lawnmower-Milton-Keynes-temple.html the bassline instantly st...

see, i'm like a russian doll - i just gave you a physics joke, in disguise. "uhm....no. not yet."

oddly, it's the buddhists that seem to present more resistance, isn't it? all very strange... i know that trump is mostly  full ...

you know how sometimes you hear those buddhist lawnmowers? ohhhhhhhhm. ohhhhhhhhhhhm. they seem to largely be in competition with the ru...

? https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/09/08/trump-attack-military-leadership-wesley-clark-intv-nr-sciutto-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/thi...

awful, awful thing they did... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/government-broke-law-on-ei-financing-in-3-years-top-court-1.750084

eliminating the payroll tax is something i strongly disagree with trump about. thankfully, he couldn't really do it - not without congre...

if beethoven had a blog, what would it be like? i don't know. i know there's a lot of historians that would find it interesting,...

i can't sit in here when it smells like this, so i'm going to get something to eat.

is the fact that i've never made i dime from blogging or vlogging, and something like $500 total from selling music over the last 25 yea...

...and, the smell of anal rape is now wafting downstairs, again. it's not quite skunk, really; it smells more like that old man is getti...

i just got a strange email from my youtube vlog, which i haven't even uploaded a video to in years. ======== Hi jessica, This emai...

so, i've been sitting here for a few hours, trying to figure out if i'm awake or not. the smokey/dry air smell is better . but, if...

hey, i'd rather have trump act out of political expediency than biden not act at all. would biden have extended the moratorium? maybe,...

that's a hellluva stark reversal, alright. wow. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/08/reversal-trump-ban-oil-d...

but, we're at a kind of a crossroads with this, and the poll i just posted indicates some reason to be concerned, in a different way. ...

Of Canada’s major cities, Ottawa had the highest percentage of seroprevalence at 1.29 per cent, followed by Toronto with 1.07 per cent and V...

no, stop for a second. when you ask somebody like fauci about the efficacy of certain drugs, of which there is good evidence of the effi...

if you want to change the constitution and run trudeau, you'll have to get him to resign from his side hustle, though.

"but, what about your grandparents?" i'm a maskless rebel; i don't have grandparents, i descended, fully formed, from t...

i'm personally more concerned about what the evidence says than what about people's opinions are, in determining whether i should we...

so, when we see rising mask use correlated with increasing case numbers, what does that tell you about how effective they are at reducing sp...

if the democrats really want to win in a landslide, what they should do is run justin trudeau. (who, afaik, was born in ottawa. so, imposs...

i was going to make some calls about the orchidectomy and other things late tonight, but i'm going to wait until early in the morning, a...

what about the edibles? well, they're still sitting there, proving i can let them sit. but, i also don't know exactly what they...

am i just making up this second-hand smoke thing? i could concede, on some level, that i might be imagining it if it was only the smell. m...

this is the generous version: i think this is more realistic:

if  the democrats are going to swing anywhere in the south this cycle, it's going to be arizona, and it's going to be because it...

john kerry claims that biden would never lavish praise on a brutal dictator. hrmmn, i seem to recall this: "Jill and I were saddene...

so, what directions are key swing demographics likely to move in this election? i'm going to create a collection of partial orderings....

listen, i'm not "attacking assange" and that kind of stupid narrative is what's wrong with the world. you could run a se...

ottawa was overdue. again: relax. it's going to spread. deal with it. protect yourself, and be aware of the elderly around you. ht...

if you oppose the lng, you're going to have to give the greens the balance of power. it's the only way to stop it.

.... and , you're going to have to swallow austerity around key social programs to pay for it! you'll be hating green energy, in n...

it's going to be the most ridiculous collection of pork-barrelled greenwashing you've ever seen.

but, this is what your green energy agenda is going to look like.... carbon capture lng maybe, some kind of derivatives trading scam ....

wrong. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/cleaner-lng-one-answer-to-climate-change-crisis-o-regan-tells-investors-1.5095332

i'd like to do......something....but it's hard when i can't keep my eyes open :\

so, again: i just got out of an hour and a half long shower, which is how long it took for the frog in my throat to lift and consequently bo...

showing up with guns to confiscate guns is a pretty ham-fisted approach to the issue that is about appealing to a political base, not about ...

again: i don't have an opinion on this and don't consider it a ballot issue, although i realize there are lots of people that do. ...

i don't understand why i was lured down here by somebody that pretended they were a nonsmoker. but, it's going to be an expensive ...

so, i'm overwhelmingly tired due to the air pollution from the fucking pigs. again... this is going to be a long, difficult process ...

it just wasn't clear for a few days, there - did i pick something up? was it allergies? glucose withdrawl? it's smoke & dry ai...

no, i'm reacting to the smoke from upstairs, it's clear enough. i have no recourse but to run the shower and do laundry over and o...

so, canadians are all of a sudden concerned about the deficit - if you ask them facile questions about it. am i concerned about the defici...

it's not surprising at all. the poli sci major analysts just didn't understand how to read the polls. clinton was less popular wit...

this is one of my favourite cardiacs recordings, actually - taking that early-magazine-goes-full-prog sound (which is something like syd bar...

it's really not a clear or obvious choice as to who is going to be worse...

a lot of it comes down to priorities, rather than disagreements. if my primary concern is foreign policy, i may see trump as the lesser ev...

the argument i'm going to have with somebody like jello biafra or michael stipe is whether voting for biden to get rid of trump is worth...

there are a few people i've listened to for decades that might find me maddening and be unable to find common ground with me. i'll g...

it's a bizarre situation... trump is a democrat, and biden is a republican. so, you should  be confused; this is confusing.

in the event of a tie, would trump just rejoin the democrats?

if trump was running for the democrats, and biden was running for the republicans (both of which are probably more natural fits for both men...

listen - i think i've been clear that i don't like either option. trump scares me less than his party (and less than a cruz or a r...

actually, it seems like round two finally got him. for this man, who is seen as a musical genius by those who know his work, to die of a h...

perfect excuse for a cardiacs post:

On August 14, 1936, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, speaking at Chautauqua, N. Y., said in part: "I have seen war. I have seen w...

there's a lot of really, really, really, really bad sides to trump. fine. but, his disinterest in and apprehension towards war is a ma...

i need to double down on what i just said about trump's war comments. in the article, he says things like "i don't get it. wh...

ok, so i'm out of the shower and feeling a bit better than i did the last few days. if i did indeed pick up a virus, i think i've al...

they end up fucking homeless...

i'm actually going to state something that everybody knows but people are afraid to come to terms with:  americans don't care about ...

"going to school doesn't mean you're smart" i agree. but, more to the point is the following: having a marketable degree...

just a point about opening up the border to labour mobility in north america v. europe: (1) i'd only support it if it were total and (2)...

i agree that it would be unconscionable to give an untested vaccine for a new variant of the common cold to kids. but, i insist that it wo...

it's a question of autonomy, of self-determination and of individual freedom. and, we'll see who ends up on the right side of hist...

it's not a question of if it's safe or not, or who to believe when they make arguments. it's a question of who has the right t...

so, we may have been given advance warning of an october surprise, and all i have to say is this: anybody standing between a high risk indiv...

listen, i don't doubt this, and i don't think serious complications are likely. personally? i'll pass. but, i'm not 75 y...

not really, though.

i've got a great name for the union, too. ready? oceania! great idea, eh? who'd ever have thought of that?

britain? that's only in canada. *sips tea* pity.

wait, so brexit didn't get done? i guess it's time for borisexit, instead, then. my argument from the start was that this whole ...

toronto's over.

i'm almost in favour of artists abandoning the city, at this point. it's so expensive as to be unliveable. let it be boring, if th...

chances those kids saw something in the sky: ~.01% chances of the chupacabra actually having some basis of fact in something cryptozoologic...

and, now, some idiot is going to call me a rape apologist for not believing them.

what they don't tell you in the movie is that the crop being grown in the field they hallucinated their vision in was rye wheat.

"the virgin mary" was an archetype, built on existing greek motifs; a syncretic combination of existing stories and memes, put tog...

why is the cbc trying so hard to convince me that a bunch of illiterate peasants in portugal saw a vision of a woman that never existed in t...

labour day is may 1, guys.

so, i was planning on doing a number of things today, but i forgot it's a holiday... i'm going to get something to eat and then ge...

so, i got five faxes out to six doctors and i'll have to get back to it tomorrow. three of them are white, one of them is indian and t...

why demeter? because she needs to be reunited with persephone. https://www.infoplease.com/culture-entertainment/mythology-folklore/class...

it's labour day in canada...nobody's open.... i sent this fax out: hi. my name is jessica. i called earlier because i forgot i...

the snowflakes would love this, if they'd spend thirty seconds trying to understand it, rather than kneejerking to it like conservatives...

i need to call some urologists today and ask about scheduling orchidectomies.

i can't find any clear evidence linking k to strokes, but i think there's grounds to be careful. so, we're going to x out the ...

ok, maybe this isn't too bad... if i have the fruit bowl in the morning two days in a row, that's 50%. then, if i have the eggs at...

no. the cereals have the same problem as the nuts :\.

am i going to have to start buying cereal? really?

you have to understand that the way these dietary recommendations work is that they assume that everybody is a useless, obese piece of shit ...

so, what's the deal with nuts? well, if you normally  eat a diet high in cow and lard, then perhaps moving to nuts may be less bad. bu...

no, on second thought, i misread the source; almond milk is still crammed with omega-6, whic is what i thought they stripped out. dammit. ...

now that i've adjusted my diet so i get more vitamin a and less sugar (even if i think i'm coming down from the pasta and may be for...

i hope that this government gains a little perspective and pulls back before this becomes an albatross for them. we are  not  taking the r...

so, is the cfr a better or worse source than the atlantic? i don't know. that's a pretty daunting insult directed at the atlantic......

some really thirsty music....

i just got out of the shower and had a random urge for a fruit drink i used to consume large amounts of when i was a kid. i was a big fan ...