tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59263372011-04-21T16:42:55.884-04:00My views on the world, and other such things. You know, whatever.Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1163863633641209152006-11-18T10:24:00.000-05:002006-11-18T10:27:13.656-05:00

This is a post I made on the Maclean's forums a while back. I thought it was worth posting here. Enjoy.In two world wars, Germany never once attacked Canada. Our territory was never attacked, our civilians were never bombed - fewer Canadian civilians died to enemy action in those wars than did to the 9/11 attacks. And yet, we spent our combined energies as a nation for over a decade, took on

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1139756498810122412006-02-12T09:45:00.000-05:002007-06-11T22:51:18.005-04:00

With the whole Emerson thing, I'm seeing a lot of talk kicked around on the subject of forcing byelections in the case of floor-crossings. First off, let me say that any law to that effect is totally unenfocable - you don't have to be on one side of the floor to accept that side's nomination next time, or to vote that side's party line in Parliament. The only thing it would affect is research

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1139586710080179932006-02-10T10:26:00.000-05:002006-02-10T10:51:50.166-05:00

I know I'm chipping in a bit late on Emerson and Fortier, but whatever. Here's my thoughts:Emerson - I don't think this one should reflect as badly on Harper as most people think. Let's be honest here - no leader will ever refuse support unless he has a good reason to. And, given that Emerson is going to support us, he has the qualifications for his Cabinet post. I'm still concerned about the

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1136954332078067852006-01-10T23:30:00.000-05:002006-01-10T23:38:52.136-05:00

The latest polls I've found have indicated some truly remarkable results:BC: 22 Con, 8 Lib, 5 NDPAB: 28 ConPR: 23 Con, 1 Lib, 3 NDPON: 66 Con, 30 Lib, 9 NDPQU: 64 Bloc, 7 Lib, 4 ConAT: 25 Con, 3 Lib, 4 NDP-----------CA: 168 Con, 64 Bloc, 49 Lib, 21 NDPYes, you read that right. Not only do the Tories win a majority, but the Libs are reduced to third-party status, behind the Bloc. Hell, Paul Martin

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1136753504469776022006-01-08T15:37:00.000-05:002006-01-08T16:42:02.310-05:00

Looking at the Liberal site, I see an attempt to say that the Conservatives will return to deficit spending. This one is interesting for several reasons. First off, the Liberals claim that the combined surplus for the next 5 years is around $18 billion. I don't see a Tory estimate for the next 5 years, but they do say it'll be $55 billion over the next 6. Somehow I doubt there'll be a $37 billion

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1136694105720909972006-01-07T23:11:00.000-05:002006-01-07T23:21:45.730-05:00

I know that the Conservative tax-cut plan is bigger, better, and flashier than the Liberal one, and I know that the Liberal mini-budget promise to cut taxes was totally unimportant in the grand scheme of government finance. But that doesn't mean we can get away with saying we'll repeal their tax cut!Because really, look at the totally predictable Liberal response: Tories will raise taxes. Yes,

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1136571087877341292006-01-06T13:10:00.000-05:002006-01-06T13:11:27.890-05:00

Just click here - I guarantee you'll love it.

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1136425900029310902006-01-04T20:39:00.000-05:002006-01-04T20:51:40.063-05:00

Just looking at some of the new ads from the various parties. I liked the "Change" ad from the Conservatives(though the latest batch of negative ones I'm not a fan of), and the NDP's "Gift" ad was great too. However, my favourite is probably the new Tory "More than money" radio ad - it's not the hackneyed cliche of an attack ad with mean voiceovers and scary black-and-white photos, it's got

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1135488080312312722005-12-25T00:12:00.000-05:002005-12-25T00:21:20.323-05:00

I'm not particularly imaginative right now, so I'll just go with the old Dec. 25th standby of wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Kwazy Kwanzaa, Tumultuous Tet and a solemn and dignified Ramadan. And, if all that fails, at least enjoy a lazy Boxing Day Eve, the last day of the year where people are expected to pay full price.

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1135137352394473302005-12-20T22:36:00.000-05:002005-12-20T23:08:50.103-05:00

Serenity came out today, and it's an awesome, awesome movie. If you haven't seen it yet, you owe it to yourself to go buy(or at least rent) the DVD and watch it. It's better if you've seen the entire series of Firefly(the short-lived show it's a sequel to, which, of course, you should also buy), but it's more than good enough on its own. Watch it.

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1135109621641127552005-12-20T15:08:00.000-05:002005-12-20T15:13:41.666-05:00

This one uses the Pollara poll here - the first one posted in a while with a proper regional breakdown. The margins of error are pretty high on this one, though, since the sample sizes are small. BC: 4 CPC, 24 LPC, 7 NDP, 1 WTF(Cadman)AB: 28 CPCPR: 24 CPC, 1 LPC, 2 NDP, 1 WTF(Desjarlais)ON: 28 CPC, 73 LPC, 4 NDP, 1 WTF(Stronach)QU: 67 Bloc, 8 LPCMR: 12 CPC, 17 LPC, 3 NDPTR: 3 LPC---------------

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1134154873007105322005-12-09T13:57:00.000-05:002005-12-09T14:01:13.040-05:00

Everybody seems to acknowledge that crime is a problem that needs to be addressed, so everyone is bringing forward policies to fight it. The Conservative policy is to punish criminals. The Liberal plan is to punish those law-abiding enough to register their guns. Anyone still wonder why I prefer the Conservative Party?

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1133541869585918632005-12-02T11:29:00.000-05:002005-12-02T11:46:39.420-05:00

Check out the Liberal Party's homepage if you haven't already. These guys are asking people to give their personal info before they even launch the webpage proper. It's just the party logo, datamining in both languages, and a bilingual "Enter" button. And even if you click past it once, you still have it bother you every time you load their page until you actually give them info. What kind of

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1132852370029578572005-11-24T12:00:00.000-05:002005-11-24T12:12:50.060-05:00

I was bored and procrastinating today, so I ran through my election-prediction algorithm again with modern poll numbers. Here are the results:Lib/Con/NDP/Bloc/UncallableBC: 4/12/19/0/1AB: 26/1/0/0/1PR: 22/1/4/0/1ON: 28/54/22/0/2QU: 0/8/0/67/0AT: 8/22/2/0/0TR: 0/3/0/0/0-------------CAN: 88/101/47/67/5The uncallable ridings are the ones won last election by Kilgour, Desjarlais, Parrish, Stronach,

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1125536636694413342005-08-31T19:53:00.000-04:002005-09-01T12:43:56.090-04:00

...and in case you've been living under a rock, I'm not talking about Led Zeppelin. I don't know how much you've been paying attention to what's going on, but the situation in New Orleans looks like something out of Revelations, or at least a particularly nasty war. I'm sure we've all seen hurricanes before, and the devastation in other cities is about what was expected, but I've never seen

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1124213954398392242005-08-16T12:47:00.000-04:002005-08-16T13:39:14.460-04:00

There's a couple ideas I've had kicking around for a while on computer games and the like, and I figured I might as well mention them here to fill in some of the blanks in my posting(like, you know, the last year or so). I'm never going to do any of these, and I'm not sure that some of them will ever get done, but I still think that they're cool ideas. Anmyways:1) One thing that pisses me off

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1123156648994649682005-08-04T07:34:00.000-04:002005-08-04T07:57:29.000-04:00

Right now, this part of the world is going through a fairly hot, dry summer. That happens once in a while, right? Anyways, some enterprising pollster decided tio ask people whether they thought it was caused by global warming, and about 57%(if I remember the numbers right), said that they thought it was. This merely proves one thing - the average person doesn't know enough about the issue to

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1122491189256460262005-07-27T14:40:00.000-04:002005-07-27T15:06:29.263-04:00

A few things that seemed link-worthy:First off, a buddy of mine runs a great event every summer just east of Toronto. It's called the Liberty Summer Seminar, and it's basically a weekend event with a bunch of assorted libertarian speakers. While I can't claim to be a fan of the venue(it's basically a camp-out on the guy's 40-acre backyard, and I'm the kind of guy who considers using a subpar Web

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1122172009600227452005-07-23T21:54:00.000-04:002005-07-23T22:27:40.913-04:00

In case you haven't heard about the whole GTA San Andreas rating argument going around now, here's a good synopsis, and here's a good parody. Long story short, there's a mod out for the PC version of the game that unlocks a somewhat explicit sex minigame, and because of this, the game's rating has been changed form Mature to Adults Only, and it's been pulled of the shelves at some stores. Now,

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1121263960920515062005-07-13T09:26:00.001-04:002008-07-12T14:54:39.017-04:00

I read the Toronto Star's editorial page every Saturday(their big-paper day), on the principle that it's always good to get some perspectives from the other side, and because my parents have a subscription to it already. Anyways, needless to say, this means that I come into contact with some ideas that I consider to be rather ill-advised. One of the worst of these is their stance on racial

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1117587213487218892005-05-31T20:35:00.000-04:002005-05-31T20:53:33.510-04:00

For those of you who haven't heard this, the tapes featuring hours of commentary between Gurmant Grewal, Tim Murphy, and Ujjal Dossanjh have now been released in their entirety. There isn't anything new here, per se - the Liberals wanted the Grewals onside, and Gurmant was stringing them along because he had the recorder - but it makes any denials from the Martin camp utterly ludicrous. It's

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1116885333939860232005-05-23T16:34:00.000-04:002005-05-23T17:55:33.976-04:00

Two weeks ago, Paul Martin lost the confidence of the House, but refused to hold an election, and refused to hold a confidence motion for more than a week. One week ago, he bribed an opposition member into switching sides to help support his government, and his immediate underlings are recorded trying to convince two others to do the same(as well as allegations of it happening to yet more

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1116348375203915642005-05-17T12:32:00.000-04:002005-05-17T17:21:34.750-04:00

In case you haven't heard, Parliament Hill Barbie is now wearing red, and has accepted the post of Minister of Human Resources. I don't think I actually need to say very much here, but I'm pissed, so I will anyways. First off, what kind of short-sighted imbecile would willingly cross the floor to a party that's going to get devastated in the next election? Second, what kind of spineless weasel

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1115609831318353522005-05-08T23:25:00.000-04:002005-05-08T23:38:15.796-04:00

Isn't Canada so lucky to have a great humanitarian like Paul Martin running the country? People around the world know that when they're in the worst trouble of their lives, trying to avoid being torn to pieces by daily attacks, the Canadian Government, as run by Paul Martin, will send Canadian troops into harm's way, to give them the critical 153rd vote that they need to avoid utter oblivion.

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1114899558161956792005-04-30T17:25:00.000-04:002005-04-30T18:23:56.006-04:00

Needless to say, I've been watching the political climate in this country fairly closley in recent months. Most of the country has been, so it should be no surprise that a political geek like me has been as well. Also needless to say is the fact that I'm really liking the numbers that most of the polls are coming out with. When even the worst of them has us 1% ahead of the Liberals, that is a

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1114717500816772202005-04-28T13:12:00.000-04:002005-04-29T19:45:45.396-04:00

Before we start, yes, I know how much of a crappy blogger I am. On the off chance that anyone is still reading, though, I'm actually going to start making occasional posts, assuming my lazinesss doesn't catch up with me again. Anyways, me being the geek that I am, I spent some time making up an election-prediction spreadsheet yesterday, and the results are interesting enough that it's worth

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1111265789140263712005-03-19T15:37:00.000-05:002005-03-19T15:56:29.143-05:00

I'm watching the Conservative national convention as we speak, and they've just made a few decisions that are pissing me off quite effectively. Specifically, the entire concept of a national youth wing has just gone down in flames about two minutes ago. And the reason why it went down? One well-repeated filthy lie of there being the chance of campus representatives overwhelming riding

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1110486481659601352005-03-10T14:51:00.000-05:002005-03-10T15:28:01.663-05:00

First off, yes, I know how much I suck for not posting for the last couple months. Between some apathy towards this blog, switching to Firefox and losing the Google Toolbar with it's handy "BlogThis", and a crazy succession of midterms, job applications, elections(of the student variety), and sundry other things, I haven't really been able to keep this up, as all two of my regular readers may

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1105036594077627882005-01-06T13:33:00.000-05:002005-01-06T13:36:34.076-05:00

...specifically, that I'm a horrible blogger. I'm not sure if I'm going to let my laziness shut this site down or not. I may well do so, or I may rediscover that I like blogging - I'm not really sure which way it'll go. But to all my(handful of) readers, sorry about just letting it go limp - exams and holidays get in the way, but I still should have done something. Maybe you'll see more in this

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1099850228730410732004-11-07T13:48:00.000-05:002004-11-07T12:57:08.730-05:00

Just saw this story about a guy who was apparently so distraught at the re-election of Bush trhta he decided to kill himself. The interesting thing is that he picked a pretty symbolic place to do it - the WTC site. I'm amazed at the duality of this - he put enough thought into this to go somewhere that has meaning instead of just heading into the kitchen and grabbing a knife(not to mention that

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1099761778174942842004-11-05T23:29:00.000-05:002004-11-10T13:43:43.600-05:00

Every Friday, a new issue of the campus newspaper comes out, and pretty much every week, I grab a copy and flip through it for whichever articles seem interesting, and toss the rest(there are advantages to free newspapers). Anyways, I didn't have far to look this week - I found this wonderful little article on the front page talking about how vaccinations are dangerous to your health. Yes, that's

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1099675179610671342004-11-05T11:48:00.000-05:002004-11-05T12:19:39.610-05:00

So, it's official now - Bush won, increased his majorities in both houses, and even picked up a couple governorships. This is certainly what I was plugging, so I'm not disappointed, but as I mentioned a few days ago in my endorsement post, there's several aspects of Bush that I dislike massively. Now that the entire nation can see that he has a mandate, and we know that he won't be running again

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1099467973448390822004-11-03T02:41:00.000-05:002004-11-03T02:46:13.446-05:00

It's 2:30 AM, and I have a midterm tomorrow morning, so I'll keep this quick - Bush probably won, and that's a good thing. Congress seems to have stayed red(despite the one network saying the Senate was 49/41 Dem, all the others seem to laugh at that), and that's probably good too(though a few legislative roadbumps couldn't hurt). Dan Rather is even more of a socialist weasel than I thought, he

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1097218413173016382004-10-31T21:12:00.000-05:002004-10-31T20:46:21.670-05:00

This should already be pretty obvious judging by that little elephant on the sidebar, but I'm hoping Bush wins the election on Tuesday(or whenever the hell the legal battles end). Why, you may ask? Well, gather 'round, children, and listen to my tale: Let's start with the aspects of George Bush that I fundamentally despise. The most obvious, and most painful for me to defend even by association,

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1098935017432261722004-10-27T23:41:00.000-04:002004-10-27T23:43:37.433-04:00

WTF?

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1098931075200574192004-10-27T21:56:00.000-04:002004-10-27T22:37:55.200-04:00

No, this isn't a rant about how it's harder to get good mp3's or anything like that, this is about how the misguided attempts to copy-proof merchandise has made it essentially defective. Let's start here: Case 1) About a month ago, I dropped quite a bit of cash on a brand new copy of Rome: Total War. This is a game that I've been drooling over for a year and a half, so that's no surprise.

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1098912765457683942004-10-27T16:59:00.000-04:002004-10-27T17:32:45.456-04:00

Apparently a Liberal backbencher had some less-than-complimentary things to say about NDP member Marilyn Churley yesterday, Churley stood up to complain that Qaadri told her, "OK, the hot flash is over." and she's making a big deal of this. To be honest, that I can't blme her for - despite this post's title, I think that Qaadri went a little overboard there(only a little mind you, politicians

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1098658718822251512004-10-24T18:41:00.000-04:002004-11-01T00:31:44.710-05:00

I'm a regular reader of Jane Galt, and she's got a really interesting series of posts going to try to figure out who she should vote for(she's a libertarian who's equally apprehensive towards both Bush and Kerry). In any case, it's probably the most fascinating way of thinking about the US election I've seen around - it's not biased(that's the point), it's massively intelligent(as all of her

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1098289804859097462004-10-20T12:30:00.000-04:002004-10-20T12:30:04.860-04:00

Read what Jimmy Carter had to say on Hardball: MATTHEWS: Let me ask you the question about—this is going to cause some trouble with people—but as an historian now and studying the Revolutionary War as it was fought out in the South in those last years of the War, insurgency against a powerful British force, do you see any parallels between the fighting that we did on our side and the fighting

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1097849639216969772004-10-18T01:00:00.000-04:002004-10-18T02:32:08.290-04:00

So in the early 40's there was this little war going on(the Second somethingorother, I dunno), and the Americans decided that it might be a good idea to make a really effin' big bomb in case they might need it, and it turns out they did. And so the nuclear warhead entered the world, at about the same time as 250,000 people left it(and a few million others didn't, but that's another story). And

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1098041269149646452004-10-17T15:00:00.000-04:002004-10-17T15:28:51.630-04:00

This isn't really new content, just posting what I've already said in a new format. A week ago in the Sun, Lorrie Goldstein wrote a column about how Bush had changed his arguments on Iraq from him saying before the war that it was about ridding Saddam of WMD's to saying after the war that it was about not waiting for it to be an imminent threat(and a few other things). I didn't feel like letting

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1097910428185420772004-10-16T03:00:00.000-04:002004-10-16T03:07:08.186-04:00

So I went and watched Team America, and let's just say that I barely stopped laughing. I have never in my life seen as good of casting as I did for the one part in TA(odd that its initials are "TA" considering that the most notable part of it is a sex scene...) - casting regular black cats(that happen to be taller than the puppets) as panthers was genius. It's worth your ticket price. And

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1097550215030991222004-10-11T23:03:00.000-04:002004-10-11T23:03:35.030-04:00

So it seems that Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidte for President, got his ass arrested for breaking through a police barricade trying to get into the Presidential debate. I have to admit that warning bells went off when I heard that two Presidential candidates got arrested a month before the election(the Green fool was in on this too), but then I looked at the situation and realized how

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1097043329431683342004-10-06T02:15:00.000-04:002004-10-06T02:18:31.816-04:00

I'm sure most of you have heard about the upcoming move Team America: World Police that'll be coming out next week(apparently). If you haven't, watch the teaser, then the trailer(at www.teamamericamovie.com) before you read any further. Anyways, I hadn't seen anything besides the trailer about the movie until I read this little piece, and, well, it seems that the South Park guys have done it

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1096948867731196642004-10-04T23:59:00.000-04:002004-10-05T00:01:07.733-04:00

The scary part about this site is that I think they're serious. Read it, laugh, and weep. Oh, and if you're American, sign up ;) ;)

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1096786701278469022004-10-03T03:00:00.000-04:002004-10-03T02:58:21.276-04:00

Okay, first things first: As with my last post, I'm terribly sorry. I know my readership isn't exactly huge, but trying to keep up a site like this at all implies that I should do a regular job of it, and I haven't been. That, however, was the result of circumstances(to be explained in a second), not laziness or apathy, and as said circumstances are over, I should return to my normal

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1095300094857419062004-09-15T21:47:00.000-04:002004-09-15T22:01:34.856-04:00

...and don't bother asking what the sin is, because you all know - I haven't posted anything here in ages. The life of a student is a fun one - you get to move every four months, and when you do, you don't have any internet connection for a week or so. Between moving twice(summer job -> home -> school) and a family trip, and a little bit of general laziness(you knew that was coming, didn't you?),

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1094000751549521802004-08-31T21:03:00.000-04:002004-08-31T21:05:51.550-04:00

A bunch of weird stuff is happening here - between moving and attending some various events, this is the first chance I've had to get online since last Friday, and I'll be on a trip with my family until Sunday or so. So yeah, unless something really catches my imagination tonight, I'll be off until Labour Day or so. Until then, remember to watch the Republican convention ;)

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1093382825430605132004-08-26T11:44:00.000-04:002004-08-26T11:44:52.066-04:00

I'm not a huge sports fan, but I do enjoy watching it sometimes, and like any good Canadian, I like hockey and care about the state of the game(if not the playoff rankings - until the Leafs start to do well, of course, but that's not particularly likely, no matter how much we may want it). So while I haven't been obsessing over the current contract dispute facing the NHL, I've certainly been

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1093129444186146372004-08-21T19:04:00.000-04:002004-08-21T19:04:04.186-04:00

Wow, this guy is a nut. He's making the argument that jails are barbaric and should be eliminated. Can somebody please explain to Mr. Holt that there has to be some kind of punishment for breaking the law? Because, after all, with no punishments, there is no law, and one of my political axioms is "Anarchy bad". What does he want to do to murderers, for example? I think they should hang, myself,

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1093028060381813072004-08-20T14:47:00.000-04:002004-08-20T14:54:20.383-04:00

"John Kerry is the kind of a guy who is always laid back. He is always been dealing with people who were gentle, who were in every way respectful, who have a sense of dignity about themselves and a sense of honor. John Kerry may not be fit for the terrible battles and wars of the world of politics." - Willie Brown, former Mayor of San Fransisco(link) Yes kids, that's right, someone who has

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1092855671367519692004-08-18T14:51:00.000-04:002007-06-11T22:13:10.028-04:00

This story is disgusting. A man got beaten to death with a pipe, and the killer seems to have gotten off because the local DA has a vague suspicion that it might have started with self-defense(and even if that's how it started, it still doesn't explain him pulverizing the man's skull while he was unconscious). The justice system seems to be broken on this one - someone who is quite obviously a

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1092678299161593982004-08-16T13:12:00.000-04:002004-08-16T13:44:59.160-04:00

This is the depths of enviroweenieism. Apparently tests have revealed that Prozac is a popular enough drug to have detectable residual levels in British water. On first glance, this lights off the "What crap is screwing up my drinking water?" light in your head, but then you look at it a bit more carefully. First off, remember how astoundingly accurate our tests for this sort of thing can be -

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1092663985080181582004-08-16T09:46:00.000-04:002004-08-16T10:28:41.383-04:00

Before I get into the link, I'll provide a bit of context, because this is a bit of weird one. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was the Temple of Athena, and it was destroyed - supposedly on the same day as Alexander was born - by a nobody looking to immortalize his name(the bitch of it is, he succeeded - I'll refer to him as H here because I refuse to participate in his scheme, even

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1092527138616726952004-08-14T19:45:00.000-04:002004-08-14T20:25:56.540-04:00

This is just unreal. Imagine caffeine, without side effects, but that works far better than the original. Yes, it exists, and it's available by prescription already(albeit only to a narrow band of people). I have no idea what the effects of this might be, but assuming there's no buried health issues like there often are with drugs like this, it could well change the world. The article speculates

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1092355729266513752004-08-12T18:47:00.000-04:002004-08-16T09:19:08.486-04:00

So it seems that the Governor of New Jersey has resigned over a homosexual affair. As much as I like Democrats resigning, and preferably in disgrace, I have to wonder why this calls for it. Sure, I wouldn't fault his wife for flaying him with a dull razor for it(though if he's fully gay like he says he is, I'd be surprised if she doesn't already know), but why is it any of the public's business?

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1092350773172296832004-08-12T18:05:00.000-04:002004-08-12T18:46:13.173-04:00

Two days from now is the one-year anniversary of the biggest electrical blackout in history. Fifty million people in Canada and the US lost power, many for days, economic damage was well into the billions of dollars, and some people died as well. So what do people do on the one-year anniversary of this event? Why, celebrate, of course! Yes, there's some people doing rational things - politicians

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1092166767924283122004-08-10T15:24:00.000-04:002004-08-12T20:14:32.333-04:00

So it seems that the Speaker of the House down in the US has proposed scrapping income taxes entirely, and replacing it with a sales tax. Personally, I'm not sure that that's the absolute best possible course of action, but I do know for a fact that it's a hell of a lot better than the system we have now. Yes, it'll have its problems - it'll drive cross-border commerce through the roof because

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1091730827612323722004-08-05T14:32:00.000-04:002004-08-05T14:33:47.613-04:00

I've been quite busy for the last while, and I'll continue to be until Sunday. Sorry about not posting anything, there's a few I'm going to do when I get the time, but for now you'll have to do without.

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1091129335479418442004-07-29T15:26:00.000-04:002004-07-29T15:28:55.480-04:00

I listen to the radio at work(the Edge's webcasting is a good thing), and one of the ads is a LCBO affair warning against drinking and driving. Anyways, one of the lines in this ad is "Don't mix alcohol with gasoline"(and it's used a lot of other places too). I know it's metaphorical, but don't these people know that pretty much all the gas sold nowadays is 10% ethanol(i.e., drinkin' booze)?

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1091059759427130542004-07-28T19:58:00.000-04:002004-07-29T15:30:00.596-04:00

Still watching the Dem convention, and Dennis Kucinich(former candidate for the Dem nomination) is talking as I type this. So far, most of the speeches have been pretty impressive in form - they've all got good writers it would seem. Except Dennis here. He reminds me of a child thinking he's a great orator - shouting an all at the right places, but doing it in such a woefully incompetent way to

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1090894504936488672004-07-26T22:00:00.000-04:002004-07-26T23:00:32.800-04:00

I'm watching the Democratic convention(yes, I'm a political nut, in case you haven't figured that out yet), and one of the things they're doing is little "Average Joe" speeches from various cities between the real speeches. First off, this is a really bad idea - giving a speech looks easy, but it ain't, and these people all suck at it(though to be fair, addressing a national audience isn't the

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1090863927852465722004-07-26T11:44:00.000-04:002004-07-26T22:19:06.036-04:00

Britain is doing all sorts of brilliant things lately, it would seem. First they bankrupt people for owning cars, and now they decide that five year old kids need sex ed classes. Yes, you read that right. Even aside from the fact that this is huggy-feely crap of the highest order(they're teaching kids how to "share their feelings", for example - isn't it odd though that the teachers never seem to

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1090625227727161702004-07-25T22:27:00.000-04:002004-07-25T22:53:51.043-04:00

Word cannot begin to express how utterly stupid of an idea this is. But I'll give it a shot anyways. The proposal is to charge more than $2/km for road use during peak hours for every road in Britain(and closer to 10 cents per km even in the middle of the night), for the purpose of lowering traffic densities. They aren't proposing to increase public transit or anything like that to any real

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1090352396736649892004-07-20T17:45:00.000-04:002004-07-20T15:43:51.963-04:00

...so I'll finish what Den Beste started as regards this article. First off, I'd like to point out that it's an article in Pravda, the old Soviet propaganda rag(and I mean that literally - this was the sort of paper that reported that the Soviets finished second and the Americans finished next to last, but neglected to mention that it was a two-way contest). Anyways, to the article: Iraq: the

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1089954205989666772004-07-16T00:49:00.000-04:002004-07-16T09:15:05.190-04:00

So it seems that Al-Jazeera's application to get rebroadcast in Canada has been approved. Hey, that's fine - I'm all for public choice when possible. But can somebody please explain to me why Fox News hasn't gotten similar approval? It cannot possibly be an issue of CanCon if a bloody Quatari station is getting approval, so what is it? Could it be *gasp* an institutional bias in a

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1089913379071342472004-07-15T13:27:00.000-04:002004-07-15T13:42:59.070-04:00

There's been plenty of talk in the US about postponing the election should there happen to be a terrorist attack in the days preceding the nominal election date(as there was this spring in Spain). I have mixed feelings on this, as I would imagine do most people. To quote Jane Galt: "on the one hand, this gives me that deeply creepy, "Reichstag Fire" kinda feeling", and to quote, well, me, there's

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1089838647431525592004-07-14T16:50:00.000-04:002004-07-14T16:57:27.430-04:00

...but this takes the cake. Yes kids, it's the Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics. The weirdest part is that it's actually a legitimate reference source - I expected a parody site, but it's real physics, just with some eye candy tacked on. Definately the strangest site I've ever seen...

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1089832761891159572004-07-14T14:21:00.000-04:002004-07-14T15:19:21.890-04:00

I originally typed all of this up almost a month ago now, but it seems I only saved it as a draft, I didn't actually post it. Oops. Anyways, here's a nice meaty post, even if it's a little dated: With the recent death of Reagan, a lot of the old thoughts on his role in ending the Cold War have come up again in full force. For example, den Beste linked this speech, which explains a lot of

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1089388607722504292004-07-09T11:55:00.000-04:002004-07-09T11:56:47.723-04:00

This would be funnier if it wasn't so true. And people wonder why I plug small government...

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1089385713568462612004-07-09T11:04:00.000-04:002004-07-09T11:08:33.570-04:00

I'm not normally huge on the bandwagon-jumping, but it *is* after all International Link to IMAO day, so I'll link to IMAO. This is Frank's last permalink contest, the one where he managed to lose horribly. It's always good to see people getting upstaged once in a while, especially considering that the winner was the most Frank-like answer to the question. Oh, and he totally reworked the look

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1089269606869182072004-07-08T02:31:00.000-04:002004-07-08T02:56:50.753-04:00

Watching some TV next to me here, and possibly the dumbest ad I've ever seen just came on, so I feel like ripping it apart. It's for a product called Cool Fan, basically an icepak that you can clip to your fan to cool off the air coming through it. Anyways, here's some of the claims it makes: 1) It cools the air coming out of your fan. True, but if you're sitting more than a metre or two away,

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1089168914026660452004-07-06T22:55:00.000-04:002004-07-06T22:55:14.026-04:00

Saw this over at Knuckles, and he has a point, though I'll play devil's advocate here. The reason people(yes, even many righties) go for the minimum wage is because at the end of the day we don't want people starving on the streets. While it's true that a minimum wage may lower the total number of jobs(though if it's set where it should be, that effect will be minor), it's important that people

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1088999398382748162004-07-04T23:42:00.000-04:002004-07-04T23:53:34.740-04:00

To all(three?) of my American readers, enjoy your national holiday. The second-best document from some random year in the 1700s is definately worth comemmerating. BTW, that's not sarcastic, and the "second-best" line is serious too - best goes to Adam Smith. Jefferson hit a lot of the right notes very concisely, but The Wealth of Nations still beats the Declaration of Independance, though not by

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1088997495565317782004-07-04T22:46:00.000-04:002004-07-04T23:18:15.566-04:00

So about 50 kids were out partying in the street in front of my house last night(well, my parents house, I was home for the weekend...but I digress). And by "partying", I mean vast amounts of booze, a few very nasty fights, and an immense amount of noise at 2:00 AM - it woke up my parents, and if they're awake at that hour, something very odd, and usually bad, is happening. Anyways, a bunch of

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1088887480613456502004-07-03T16:19:00.000-04:002004-07-03T16:44:40.620-04:00

And in what has to be the biggest non-surprise this side of Dalton McGuinty doing a bad job as Premier, Jim Flaherty has officially entered the race to replace Ernie Eves as the leader of the Ontario PC Party, and almost certainly the next Premier of Ontario. Compared to the other two competing, this is a total no-brainer - Tory would fit well in the Liberal Party and Klees is running on a

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1088492179907127012004-06-29T02:32:00.000-04:002004-06-29T12:59:09.520-04:00

Need sleep, but here's a quick list of my thoughts on the election before I collapdse(it's been a long, long month): Liberals did better than I thought, Conservatives did worse, and Lib/NDP is actually within a hair of possiblity(they have exactly half, it'll depend on the Speaker vote and any defections). And in the ridings I watched - The Good: Belinda Stronach, Pierre Poilievre, David

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1088231685912214032004-06-26T02:30:00.000-04:002004-06-26T02:34:45.913-04:00

So, would you believe that those are two different people? Yup, that's Bill Blaikie and Reg Alcock, ironically enough, both MPs from Winnipeg. The first time I noticed that was when I was watching a news conference on CPAC(yes, I watch CPAC), and asked myself "Why is Bill Blaikie sitting in a group of cabinet ministers?", until I heard the question addressed to "Mr. Alcock", and it made sense.

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1087846313403438692004-06-21T15:02:00.000-04:002004-06-21T15:31:53.403-04:00

(Via the Emperor) Whenever the topic of rebuilding the World Trade Centre came up after Sept. 11, I held the same opinion as pretty much everyone else - "Build it the same as before, except twice as tall". That one didn't last long, since it's not practical(elevaors simply don't scale worth a damn to 220 stories), but "Build it the same, but taller" has a definate appeal to it. Or rather, it's

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1087627114262858992004-06-19T01:46:00.000-04:002004-06-19T11:39:19.650-04:00

This is pretty much all accepted gospel on the right of the blogosphere, but I thought I'd put my own spin on it. So why is America fighting a war on terrorism? To satisfy the most basic goal of most humans(and American in particular), to be left the hell alone. That doesn't mean isolationism or antisociableness, that just means that you don't want anyone screwing you around. Look at the wars

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1087622797060482572004-06-19T01:15:00.000-04:002004-06-19T01:26:37.060-04:00

Seeing how the media occasionally goes on tears where its dooming and glooming seems limitless, I invented a new word today(by accident, but it's a keeper): "Pressimistic". Use it, it applies too damn much for you not to.

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1087409558582473412004-06-16T13:41:00.000-04:002004-06-17T00:30:05.336-04:00

Having a bit of a debate about Reagan over in Daifallah's blog comments, and because of the fact that my opponent put up about 10 comments in a row and HaloScan is a pain to write long commentary with, I'll reply to him here. my number are right ... in both instances. ill leave it to you to look them up. As I said, the military spending number is right if you look at 50 years, because there's

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1087220945735169392004-06-14T09:24:00.000-04:002004-06-14T09:49:05.736-04:00

We're in an interesting situation with the upcoming election right now - not only is a minority seeming likely, but there's no obvious answer as to who will get together with who. I can see as many as six possibilities: Liberal majority: If they come back up in the polls, this is attainable. It answers the partnership question, but I don't think it's going to happen. Conservative majority:

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1086963661792065662004-06-11T10:19:00.000-04:002004-06-11T10:21:01.793-04:00

I'm working at Magna this summer(on an AsPM internship - if you can apply next year, do so, it's incredible), and my job this week has been sorting essays so that they can be marked(because the submission deadline was last Friday). Anyways, I'm typing all the names into a database yesterday, and I come to Paul Fairie just as another guy comes into the room to drop off a few more of them, so I

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1086568153974148942004-06-06T19:40:00.000-04:002004-06-06T20:29:13.976-04:00

It's not really much of a surprise, given that he was 93 and had Altzheimer's for a decade, but Reagan finally died yesterday. Damn. He was easily the best President of my lifetime(though to be fair, there's only 4 names on that ballot) for a great number of reasons(all of which have probably been hashed over so many times that you can recite the debate from memory, so I won't repeat the list

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1086407574176228022004-06-04T23:52:00.000-04:002004-06-04T23:54:23.163-04:00

I was in the middle of talking politics with a friend of mine, when the subject of Kim du Toit's old essay The Pussification of the Western Male came up. I haven't read it in a while, so my first thought was to mention it as an example of the faint silliness that creeps into any opinion when it's taken too far, but then I started reading it. Yes, it's silly in points, but not to anything like the

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1086212117505232302004-06-02T17:27:00.000-04:002004-06-02T17:35:17.513-04:00

So I get a letter in the mail today. It just says "You are Invited" ont he front in a fancy envelope, no address or return address, with RSVP on the back in really fancy writing - like, this looks like a wedding invitation or something(and since I'm in a rented house, I figured it was, intended for a previous occupant). So I open it, and lo and behold, it is an invitation...to get a MasterCard.

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1085712674742054672004-05-27T22:43:00.001-04:002004-05-27T22:51:14.743-04:00

Was at an Offspring show down in Toronto last night, and they're incredible live. Go see them if you like the music and they're coming through, it's worth it. Just try not to get stoned second-hand - what is it with rock concerts and smoking up anyways? They don't let you bring in a bottle of water(because they want to charge you four fucking dollars for it), but they manage to not notice people

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1085712200886818562004-05-27T22:43:00.000-04:002004-05-27T22:43:20.886-04:00

A friend of mine who lives in Whitby-Ajax sent me this link from his MP's site: Judi Longfield discussing the sponsorship scandal. Well, I use "discuss" rather liberally, but it's more concise than "ranted like a webtrashy blogger pissed at the world", so it's okay. Remember when you're reading this that this is a Member of Parliament talking, one of the people running this nation, and she's

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1085490076956299552004-05-25T08:55:00.000-04:002004-05-25T09:03:56.883-04:00

Just reading an article about the French finally acknowledging that their 35-hour workweek idea is a disaster(Amazing that, I could have told them well in advance what was going to happen when they mandated that people get paid the same amount for a lot less work), and I come to the realization that France as a nation is totally screwed. Not because they're a bunch of America-hating weenies, not

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1085336397729832512004-05-23T14:14:00.000-04:002004-05-27T22:59:02.013-04:00

So Martin's called the election for June 28th, and am I ever glad - the anticipation was killing me. Don't expect me to be on as much for the next 36 days, I'll be campaigning my ass off for one local candidate or another. I'll try to keep up a decent posting rate, and it's not like I don't have things to say, but I probably won't have time for as much as I'd like to. Ah well... And remember

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1085105953931490602004-05-20T21:51:00.000-04:002004-05-20T22:24:28.110-04:00

The new Ontario Liberal government has just tabled its first budget, and I have to say I'm impressed. I mean, I expected it to be bad, but they went over and above here, this is horrendous. They're screwing around the books in a way that would make Arthur Andersen proud, hiking taxes by billions of dollars a year(and not calling a referendum on it, which is illegal), running a deficit in the

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1084904399075696322004-05-18T14:03:00.000-04:002004-05-19T19:22:49.930-04:00

So it seems that a couple teachers in San Diego have decided to show their students the Nick Berg beheading video, quite possibly to score political points. "Livid" does not begin to describe my reaction, this is quite possibly the most offensive event I have ever heard of(short of some of the seriously nasty war-crime stuff, of course). I'm a university student, not to mention remarkably

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1084595845511374772004-05-15T00:09:00.000-04:002004-05-15T00:59:14.850-04:00

Just got out of seeing two movies - Kill Bill Vol. 2, and Troy. Kill Bill is great(if rather odd) - like the first, but without the gore that was excessive to the point of comedy. Good movie, I recommend it if you liked the first(or even if you liked it up until the point where they painted the room red). Make sure you see the first first though, it won't make sense in the wrong order(which is

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1084500398402133662004-05-13T21:20:00.000-04:002004-05-14T16:51:35.776-04:00

So, we Canadians have a healthcare system. We spend something like $80 billion a year on it, we have constant lineups for anything and everything, and nobody seems interested in breaking the paradigm on how it should be done. We're locked in a public mindset that it has to be single-payer public, and that if people have even the OPTION to spend their own money on healthcare, it will cause the

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1084376490812518142004-05-12T11:41:00.000-04:002004-05-12T11:41:30.813-04:00

Theoretically, Canada is a constitutional monarchy, with a representative democracy doing most of the actual work. In practice, we're a badly designed democracy. There's a lot of thinking out there on how to fix it, and I thought I'd throw in another idea. It's also worth noting that I don't particularly care about the monarchist system one way or the other, I'm simply proposing this because I

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1084307643274587432004-05-11T15:13:00.000-04:002004-05-12T11:42:57.440-04:00

I made a comment a few months back on how horribly bloated the federal Cabinet is, as well as how we need closer to 20 Ministers than 40. I'll expand on that now. Currently, we have the following Cabinet portfolios(Note that there's more than 40, some people hold multiple portfolios. My comments in bold): Prime Minister This should exist, for obvious reasons Deputy Prime Minister Ditto

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1084205980057714852004-05-10T12:15:00.000-04:002004-05-10T13:17:19.586-04:00

I say I need to post more, and not 5 minutes later news stories are flying about two of the big names in the sponsorship scandal being arrested in connection to it. The obvious question is what this will do to the election call - will they be more reluctant to call it(waiting for it to blow over), or more eager to call it(because worse is coming)? We'll find out soon enough, I guess. Remember to

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1084203656671906562004-05-10T11:39:00.000-04:002004-05-10T11:50:42.426-04:00

Sorry about not posting anything for like three weeks now - between being busy, moving, and not having a connection for almost a week, I hvaen't been able to post for a while. I'll try to get some good stuff up this week though, I have a few things I've been wanting to write and I'll try to find time to do that. And it seems that there's new BlogSpot software or something, and I don't need to

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926337.post-1082599471787091722004-04-21T22:04:00.000-04:002004-04-22T00:51:22.716-04:00

No, not Scientifically Produced Animal Matter, the email stuff - and more generally, all online advertising, it's all equally absurd. When people try to sell something in the real world, they spend a fair bit of money on the ads, try to make it seem like a product you want, and so forth - the LAST thing they want to do is look like raving lunatics trying to sell you something that nobody in their

Alex Sloatnoreply@blogger.com0