My God I love this band. 

Above the city, above my grave, from a rooftop looking down. I’ve been asleep for four years but I’m waking up. And if you’d found me dead on your floor with a stomach full of pills it wouldn’t have made a difference anyway, cause I’m on the edge. And if you told me it would stay this way I’d take two steps to send me anywhere but this place. A fall to the earth. Two steps could send me anywhere but this place, and fuck what you think you know about me. And I feel like running. Like running away. Does everybody here have a bone to pick with me? I feel like running. Like running away. Does everybody here have a bone to pick with me? And if you told me it would stay this way I’d take two steps to send me anywhere but this place. A fall to the earth. Two steps could send me anywhere but this place, and fuck what you think you know about me.

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Great video, but it’s missing a few critical moments in the Earth’s history:

• 2014: SFH release ‘Mayor On Crack’
• 2013: SFH release ‘WDYHM’
• 1980: The Hot Nasties instigate a riot at the Calgary Stampede
• 1979: Warren hangs out with Joe Strummer
• 1960: The Warren Child is born unto the world, and the first Festival of Joy begins

Oh, and that video is here.

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…why we still need effective gun safety laws.

1. Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
2. Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
3. Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
4. Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
5. Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
6. Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
7. Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department
8. Maryse  Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
9. Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
10. Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
11. Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
12. Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
13. Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
14. Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

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And I’ve long felt they should be prosecuted as such. I’m not alone, apparently. 

  

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#tbt pic at the Queen Mother. It’s #tbt because I took it one minute ago.  
  

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As long as you make it easy for crazy people to get guns, you will have crazy people using them on others.

You know how to stop this. But you won’t.

 

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I think you forgot to do spacing. And spelling. And grammar. And context. https://t.co/T81pEcXiLk

— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 2, 2015

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This is probably ancient, but I only saw it this morning. My God, it’s brilliant. Charlie Brown, via the Bad Brains’ ‘Pay To Cum.’

Matt Galloway and Errol Nazareth, this is for you. Genius.

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Two things preyed on my mind, last night. One was news accounts like this one, describing what Syrian refugees are presently experiencing:

As winter closes in, and temperatures dip into the single digits, the refugees will be cold, hungry and prey to disease. Recently the World Food Program was forced to cut back on food vouchers. That and other cuts left mothers giving up meals to feed their kids, refugees begging in the streets and kids being pulled out of school. In desperation, people are fleeing to Europe, fuelling a crisis there. But many more are stuck, facing another winter of privation.

And then there was this:

The Boston Red Sox and AL Cy Young runner-up David Price have agreed to terms on a seven-year free-agent deal worth $217 million, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday night because the deal — the largest ever for a pitcher — is pending a physical. It is expected to be announced on Friday, the person told the AP.

Son Three and I debated – or at least discussed – this juxtaposition this morning, on the way in, listening to CBC’s Metro Morning. He’s a bit of a jock, my son, so he was able to delineate the two worlds. The baseball player world, and the Syrian refugee world.

I can’t, and I couldn’t. And don’t get me wrong: like everyone else, I had heard Price was a great addition to the Jays’ late-season roster, that he was a team leader, that he was an inspiration in the locker room, and so on. As a Red Sox fan, I’m happy to see them become a contender.

But $217 million U.S. – nearly $300 million Canadian? Seriously?

I don’t know how many Syrian refugees $300 million would sponsor, but it’s obviously a lot. And, as I said to Son Three, what angers me – what truly sickens me – is not David Price. What disgusts me are the choices we make, as a society. It’s insane: nearly $300 million to play a kids’ game, a few months out of the year. While millions of actual kids are living worse than stray dogs, over in the Middle East, year after year.

I know, I know: I’m making a false comparison. They’re different things. Apples and oranges. But that’s not how I look at the political and personal choices we make. To me, they’re always connected. They say something about us.

Anyway, you get my point (I hope). This morning we wrote a big cheque out to the good folks at Jewish Immigration Aid Services, to assist them in their noble effort to sponsor Syrian refugee families. I was connected with them by my friend Gary Gladstone. (And, to me, it is worth noting that one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Muslim Syrian refugees is a group of Jewish Canadian citizens.)

We can’t undo the David Price deal, I suppose, but we can make a different choices.

Among other things, it’s the only way to remain sane.

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