Do you know what time it is? Yeah you do. It's time to get freaky with those gourds, because it's decorative gourd season, motherfuckers!
Don't take my word for it. Consult the holy writ, and be inspired.
"You're either ready to reap this freaky-ass harvest or you're not." - Jesus the Son of God, probably
12 October 2018
09 October 2018
Change is Overdue
The United States is currently being governed by a minority of its citizens. How did this happen?
The electoral college, which was created to appease slave states because of their low voting populations, continues to skew the results of the only national election. This is absurd.
Decades of gerrymandering congressional districts has dramatically skewed representation for one party at the expense of another. This is absurd.
The US Senate gives the same number of Senators to a state like Wyoming (pop. 480,000) as it does to California (pop. 48,000,000). This is absurd.
Abolish the Senate. End gerrymandering. Abolish the electoral college. Equal representation under the law is one of the reasons the republic was founded. People do not vote in part because they have no access to representation. Removing these barriers will go some way towards helping that. So will limiting the money in politics, but we can solve that problem in another post.
The electoral college, which was created to appease slave states because of their low voting populations, continues to skew the results of the only national election. This is absurd.
Decades of gerrymandering congressional districts has dramatically skewed representation for one party at the expense of another. This is absurd.
The US Senate gives the same number of Senators to a state like Wyoming (pop. 480,000) as it does to California (pop. 48,000,000). This is absurd.
Abolish the Senate. End gerrymandering. Abolish the electoral college. Equal representation under the law is one of the reasons the republic was founded. People do not vote in part because they have no access to representation. Removing these barriers will go some way towards helping that. So will limiting the money in politics, but we can solve that problem in another post.
08 October 2018
Jury Duty
I had jury duty a few weeks ago. It was a good and horrifying up-close look at the justice system. I hope to never, ever have to be involved in a jury trial for any reason, mainly because people are dumb, and also because attorneys have no interest in a fair or impartial trial. They want to win (as they should do), but if your starting pool is a collection of morons that didn't even know how to avoid the summons* then your ending group is going to be... not good. You can get get a lot of things from the US justice system but you don't get justice.
* I am a member of that group. Pro tip: throw the summons in the trash. No one is going to come after you, they don't have the budget for it.
* I am a member of that group. Pro tip: throw the summons in the trash. No one is going to come after you, they don't have the budget for it.
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