random thoughts from the cooling weather in DC... plural marriage. melting ice. parisian riots. fuck intellectual zealots. get mugabe. but try the ICC. debt for libs = nothing new.

only a few things to say today. washington, dc is hot. today it reached a cool 102 according to the sun trust bank thermometer in dupont circle. de-licious! i feel like i'm losing my mind. i've lost a lot of really important things recently. including my bank card - what a pain. and keys and other things. sucks all around. and here's the news i find interesting damn straight. this is exactly the type of candidacy that tore open the liberal party in the first place. any teenager who has 5400 bones to give to political candidates can come sit by me. this man can unite the country. he's just got to stop harper. hell yes! i saw this movie a few weeks back at a private advance screening with al gore. he's a very stiff old fellah. but a great film. see it and encourage your friends to do the same. i think it comes out friday. TAKE NOTE! legalize now! it's outrageous that such prohibition was allowed to take root in the first place.

such an interesting day on the interweb! reason #273 why the conservative gov't is destroying our country reason #274 it's hard to believe that we need an excuse to respond to outrageous violence targeting civilians. free the internet!! this is wild... what do you call it? global change? nothing to do with climate? mandatory minimums in canada will lead to this! beware! from the man who invented the internet: beware man-bear-pig!! I'm serial!! this is actually important. too bad the telcos in canada are so hegemonic.... as is this. especially in light of the closure in NB of the hospital services for abortion. www.prochoice.org will have resources soon, if not now...

a few things in the news that make me a little sick. first is MADD's call to keep those under 21 from having any liquor in their blood, regardless of licensing. let me be the first to say that this is an ageist and useless policy proposal. firstly, no such law could ever withstand charter scrutiny (the same charter that protects MADD's right to make outlandish suggestions). secondly, this is part of MADD's larger agenda to demonize liquor and actually supports the idea that people are able to excuse their actions while under the influence. most people, however, are used to taking responsibility for their actions, sober or drunk, and MADD should start to as well. I'm more offended by a sober driver who drives poorly enough to cause a massive collision than a drunk one. Why have traditional car crashes become acceptable while drunk ones morally offensive? second is the "debate raging" in the house over our deployment in afghanistan. does anyone remember that despite this country being a huge producer of opium poppies, and eventually a host of a massive pipeline, it is still a recovering nation from generations of imperialism and oppression. Canada may be one of the only nations left on earth who has kept some of her commitments to these people. It also strikes me that all over the political spectrum people call for Canada to do X and Y, be it in Darfur or the way DART responded to the tsunami, or how Canada can play a larger diplomatic role, etc etc. None of those aspirations can occur if aren't just talkers. If Canada takes over the mission for NATO that will be a huge opportunity for us to show the world our kind of nation building. to distinguish ourselves from US-style nationbuilding in Iraq. military strategists may critique certain elements of the afghan mission; but the central part is establishing safe havens in strategic cities, and growing the net of law and order - this is how we functioned in Kabul over the past almost five years. and it largely worked. but pacifying Kabul was not the mission, and Canada's relationship building in Afghanistan is not nearly over. I'd much rather we have troops in Afghanistan, following through on our commitment to the people of this war-torn Central Asian country, than mired in a war in Iraq, or a looming one in Iran. How is this mission inconsistent with Canadian values? this mission in particular is one that most fits our calling as a nation, or are we returning to our isolationist, "none-is-too-many" roots?

bits a pieces... gorgeous... the video everyone is talking about. cspan thinks it can pressure folks into removing this content from the web, but since i'm not hosting the file, i can't really keep it online. or fight to do so. spectacular... scary, a little. i mean, recognize legitimate grievances and try to resolve them through dialogue. but it's just not the same. he's speaking at the thing above. get this shirt!

this couln't be much more important

i've been doing a lot of random research lately. here's some of it... one. two. three. four. five. six. seven. eight. that's all folks!!!

my life has been consumed. by this. and this. and this. but now it's easing, and i'm curious about this and this. instead of sulking about it, though, i'm going to take a vacation.