Awful
I don't make a point of watching the news, it depresses me so horribly and it is also never on TV when I am around anyways. Of course today being labour day, I was privy to daytime television which entails the news. I have to say, our world is really fucked up! I mean, I was always fully aware of that fact but it is never so reinforced until you see human beings reporting on the wrongdoings of other human beings, be that half way around the world or down the street (and I mean that latter part literally! There was a drive-by a few days ago a few blocks from my house, and I live in a nice neighbourhood!). It seriously evoked moistness in my ocular sockets after I finally decided I had had enough and turned the channel. So fucked up.
One thing that really upset me was a report on this older lady in the Okanagan with a kidney stone that was too big to pass and required a medical procedure to break it down so that she could pass it. She has been in pain for weeks and has been back and forth from the ER in Kelowna to temporarily treat the pain and they are telling her it will be months before she will get the procedure done. What the fuck is wrong with this province?! It has so horribly neglected the human element of its governance, putting shit like the Olympics and raising taxes on gasoline before the medical priorities and social ills of its' resident populace. And what's worse is that whether it is the Campbell government or anyone else, nothing will change because they all hit 10 of 10 on the crooked scale, and that can be no clearer than when they voted themselves their more recent 54% payraise (instead of taking it upon themselves to rectify the grossly overdue minimum wage raise to better accommodate the astronomically overpriced cost of living in this shitpile of a city). I guess they will never know what it is like to live with an unpass-able kidney stone, I can't imagine that people that make as much as BC politicians would ever need to fall back on the public medical system. Fucked up. Moistness...
Happy Labour Day
I did sweet, sweet fuckall today.
It was pretty rad, 'cept for the part where I have not done any school work.
Did you know that one of those bartender style bottle openers cannot be used to hold a beer?
Chris taught us this last night, at the expense of his beer and his pants.
Other things I learned last night include
- How much the song Rio really, truly sucks
- Yves soy hot dogs are gross