Tuesday, January 31, 2006
How I survived the election. I let myself be seduced by the world of EverQuest:
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The drugs helped, too.
posted by media_dystopia @ 18:07 [ link | top | home ]
Monday, January 30, 2006
Nest this. I finally got around to converting my blog's table-heavy template to a CSS-only one. My blogging will continue to be sporadic, mind you, but at least I'll no longer be burdened by those pesky nested tables.
posted by media_dystopia @ 23:20 [ link | top | home ]
Monday, January 23, 2006
Witness the death of Canada's social progressiveness. Sacrificed today on the alter of Gomery with the blade of change. The electorate -- yet another deplorable amount of it, that is -- has spoken, and now it must reap what it has sown: some Canadians, perhaps more than people who voted for change today (by voting Conservative) realize, are going to lose their rights. Gays and lesbians, who finally achieved marriage equality -- most assuredly. (Never mind the fact that a clear majority of Canadians, way more than voted Conservative, don't want the debate reopened, let alone another vote.) Women in general, who have come to expect the right to choose -- possibly. Why? Because these newly empowered right-wingers, these bigots, don't like certain Canadians having certain rights; don't expect there to be any logical reasoning or legal basis to it whatsoever. What's sadder, perhaps, is the fact that most Canadians will sit idly by while this is done to their fellow citizens, while the Charter and courts are woefully disregarded, while the clock is shamefully turned back. (It certainly didn't get people to their polling stations, did it?) Me, I can't do that; I have to fight. To quote A Perfect Circle, from an album released on the day of another lamentable vote: "I'm sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy." Prime minister or no, you are my enemy, Stephen Harper, and while I'm grateful that you and your disgusting cohorts were held to a minority -- in fact, I've never been so grateful for one in my life -- I will be anything but passive when it comes to your government's repugnant social conservatism. I'm standing up for Canada, Mr. Harper; now it's time for you to live up to your party's motto and do the same, starting with the rights of Canadians: leave same-sex marriage alone!
Follow-up: Oh, and to answer one of the many questions in my rambling election post, a Harper win does not mean Alberta will shut up. Quite the opposite, in fact; it's like the rest of Canada, Ontario especially, has once again excluded them -- and the West -- by only giving "their boy" a minority. Would you like some Quebec cheese with that whine, Alberta? Here's some basic math for the bluest of provinces: 40 percent of Canadians live in Ontario, so when your favorite party cherry-picks rights, for instance, Ontarians pay the highest price for it. Get it? Probably not; you're too busy complaining about the rest of Canada not getting you -- which, judging from that blowhard Ralph Klein's perpetual self-righteousness, means abandoning all forward thinking when it comes to social issues. Uh, no thanks.
posted by media_dystopia @ 23:47 [ link | top | home ]
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Hallelujah! No, Stephen Harper didn't resign in disgrace after being caught smoking pot with his gay lover at a Liberal ad agency. (Fingers crossed, though.) No, this good news has nothing to do with the election: Ottawa has a new radio station, LIVE 88.5, and -- praise be! -- it's filling the alt/new-rock void left by XFM. If there's any initial disappointment, though, it's that it has an edgeless feel to it, epitomized by its lifeless "live life large, live life live" motto. It's like a station in search of a cool character, temporarily settling on a bland brand -- but, hey, after two long years of jabbing radio presets looking for decent music, I'm not complaining. Plus, a week into listening to LIVE 88.5, I heard an honest-to-goodness Tool song! Any station that can give me those few minutes of true bliss on my way home from work deserves a hearty welcome to the capital's FM dial.
posted by media_dystopia @ 19:56 [ link | top | home ]