lotusland - nervous politics from a laid-back city

poppy coin scares spooks

and those breast cancer ribbon quarters from shoppers drug mart contain anthrax.

hat tip to the whiniest bitch ive ever encountered in my life

just about the worst thing ive seen all week

but i still had to lol.  hanging out with this one, i think i need all the anti-hillary i can get.  everyone knows the real ho was bill, anyway.  its just too bad that society cant fully accept whore can be a male designation.  then we could call him petewhore mackay instead of worrying about who belinda has opened up to. 

yeah, thats all youre getting.  ive been dicking around with school and student politics - nothing blogable.  harper and dion bore the crap out of me.  omg, throwing money at soccer moms and quebec, how astute.   im glad so many stay-at-home parents can settle for such a low amount.  i cant believe one interviewee felt this little wad of 'campaign literature'  would enable more women (her specification, not mine) to be stay-at-home parents.   minimum wage, anyone? 

maybe i should pick a fight with the whole internet?  do a meme?  nah.

and i have to thank johnny maudlin for the best comment evar.  ill add you to the sidebar.  i swear.  nothing personal.

wal-mart: your one-stop shop for nazi t-shirts

from bent corner, via the pit of vapid, self-indulgent hell known as livejournal:

I stopped in at Wal-Mart today after I got off work.  I had to pick up a few things.  As I was walking past the men's clothing area, something caught my eye.  I noticed something weird over at a wall of t-shirts. One of the t-shirts had a design on it that looked remarkably like
the freaken totenkopf:

hey, nazis are sooo vintage.

yeah, germans are generally into skulls, and the prussian army and sankt-pauli and probably german pirates wore them, too... but this one looks specifically like that of the 3rd ss division.

aclu pizza

a tad over the top, but something we might want to think about since we sold our census to an american company and put crazy stockwell day in charge of reviving denis coderres ridiculous dream and making us soviet-style internal passports.

trolling is illegal in america; ubc still tardcity

i'm not even shitting you - the world is really full of lolz these days.

if youre interested in the latest "university is about being in a frat" vs "university is about padding your resume and being involved in groups and saving the children" war, click on the "continue reading" below.  the following is an email that was passed around to all the frats during the recent student elections.   it's pretty funny.  it's been my experience that more women get harassed and assaulted by their male peers than by any of the ubc homeless guys, but what would i know about being harassed and assaulted - i'm not even in a sorority.

rhode island uses COBOL for their id system: LOL

Some states' ancient computing systems will have to be overhauled in order to link to other networks. Minnesota runs a 1980s-era mainframe system; Rhode Island says its "circa 1979" COBOL-based network will require a $20 million upgrade.

us government e-passport test run luckily makes the idea look crappy

the americans are into the idea that little chips emitting some kind of radio frequency ought to be inserted into passports.  needless to say, this idea is way too 1984:

The main area of concern has to do with the potential for unauthorized reading or hacking of the RFID data. Although RFID chips are supposed to have a limited readable range of just a few centimeters, tests have been conducted which suggest that the readable distance can be several meters or more under certain conditions, meaning anyone in your vicinity with an RFID reader would be able to scan your data.

apparently, theyre fixing that, but i still have major issues with any id document others could read without even stealing my purse. 

culture of cash, man

Politicians did not speculate on her diagnosis via video tape.  Conservative religious zealots did not picket the hospital.  She didn't have insurance. Ventilator treatment is expensive. Baylor did not want to incur any more expenses. So they removed a conscious woman from a respirator.

basically, she couldnt pay for it, so no circus ensued.  schiavo was a vegetable and this was a conscious woman - culture of life, my ass.  this had nothing to do with life, it had to do with insurance.  taking a principled stance in favour of the texas healthcare system isnt really in the bible, is it.  i guess it's her fault for being from africa, getting cancer, and not being able to pay for it.

tucker carlson is our retarded cousin

"Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice but you don't take him seriously. That's Canada."

he's kind of cute, but he's such a tool the way he tries to slag canada all the time just so someone up here will pay attention to him.  who calls a country a "retarded cousin"?  i mean, really.

tucker carlson needs to be googlewhacked for the phrase "retarded cousin" - i reckon i'm not the only one who finds this amusing.

ann coulter is so awesome!

i found this enlightening quote on her site:

Saddam is on trial. His psychopath sons are dead. We've captured or killed scores of foreign terrorists in Baghdad. Rape rooms and torture chambers are back in R. Kelly's Miami Beach mansion where they belong.

i guess being kind of disturbed by jokes about rape rooms and torture chambers is really pc and uncool of me.  dont get me wrong, i am still totally in favour of glib comments that point out r.kelly's pervness. really, though, you know youre cocky about your invasion when youre all "OH GUYS THERES NO RAPE HERE THAT HAPPENS AT R.KELLYS! LOLZ!!"