primroseburrows: (DT: come reap)
South America considers common currency

Apparently this is just another step towards continental harmonization. I don't know enough about the various countries in South America to have an opinion on whether it could work or not. It depends on a lot of things, I guess, like whether all the countries are balanced power-wise.

Hopefully North America has enough sense not to even consider such a thing. If it ever does happen we're all pretty well fucked, to one degree or another. *scrubs thought out of brain*

The next President will hopefully be able to see the stupidity of it all, which is more than I can say for the current one.
primroseburrows: (colors don't run the world)



Third-party asylum repugnant to Charter, federal court rules )

Original Globe and Mail article is here.



More about the Safe Third Country Agreement and why it's a bad idea.



In other news, I'm in my future home location tonight, where it's warm and there's a dishwasher and a working oven and a place to do laundry without leaving the house (and it's Massachusetts, which I dig). The trip took me an hour and a half in rush-hour traffic, which means around an hour during off-hours, when I'll actually be commuting. More yay!
primroseburrows: (faces neg)
If Maude is right, the new national anthem might go something like this (note perky women in red with paste-on smiles). It's a cool composition, scary creepiness notwithstanding:





*goes back to writing*

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