Pictures!

And here, my friends, are some more of my summer pictures...arranged in an appallingly bad manner on a ridiculously simplistic site. I need help.

Pictures

The first of this summer's photos

This is the only one that survived from the first roll of film...most of the pictures on in were Mom's, and all but one of mine failed to expose properly. Curses. But on Tuesday i'm getting two more rolls so I'll post more very shortly. And someday i'll have time to surf so that I can update the fun stuff on my sidebar. Someday...

Holy horseshit, Batman

So I was reading my complimentary copy of the Globe and Mail yesterday, and it seems that in the midst of this catastrophe in Louisiana and Mississippi, Congress chose to spend their time passing a bill that will make it mandatory for anyone crossing the US/Canada border into the States will require a passport to get through. Not only will this hurt Canada's economy (even more than softwood lumber, "mad cow" and whatever other violations of NAFTA they happen to commit against us) because the 77% of Americans who don't have passports will forgo their visits to Canada for fear of not getting back into their own country, but GET A LIFE PEOPLE THERE ARE MORE PRESSING CONCERNS! You can bet that anybody planning another attack to compare to 9/11 could come up with another, less predictable way to do it than crossing the Canadian border - that's already been done. And meanwhile, Katrina and the aftermath are expected to take upwards of ten thousand lives - that's more than three times the deaths from 9/11. How's that for priorities. The Bush administration is under fire for their slow reaction to the disaster, even though they knew it was coming...not to mention the fact that, according to Bruce Wark in this week's Coast editorial, they cut New Orlean's flood control funding by nearly half, allowed more destruction of wetlands necessary to control stuff like that (for a somewaht more detailed explanation of the role of wetlands in hurricane and flood control, start with Vandana Shiva's Water Wars) and refused to join the world's efforts (i.e. Kyoto) to curb global climate change, which many experts say could have been a significant factor in this and other disasters.

And one more thing. If you're going to actively work to prevent access to birth control and abortions, you're going to have to deal with a burgeoning population. And all those people are gonna have to go somewhere...for example, into cities that are well below sea level and are probably vulnerable settlements. And if people have to go there, then you need to look after them. But obviously that hasn't occurred to the fundamentalists bigwigs in Washington. The world is just fucking insane, if you ask me.

Going to bed now. it's already past my bedtime, so if this rant makes considerably less sense than I intended, that's why.