Thursday, October 1, 2026
I am glad I stopped supporting Tim Horton's
Two years ago, I bought at least one Tim medium coffee daily. Whenever I got in my car and drove somewhere, my first stop was always a Tim Horton's.
Then it hit me. I wasn't even enjoying it. I was simply going through the motions of a mindless ritual. I also performed a rough calculation. At ~$2.00 per day, I was giving Horton's about $730 per year. That's a significant portion of my annual income. When I drove a cab at least five days per week, I would usually buy about three Tim coffees per shift. That's $6 per shift, $30 per week, and $1,560 per year, not counting those I bought in my hypnotic state when not driving a cab. Once I put some numbers around my irrational coffee habit, it was easy to stop the habit dead. Now I barely purchase one Tim coffee per month; usually in unique circumstances - like the odd reunion with some of my high school buds. As an added bonus, I no longer have to endure the aggravation of waiting in a line, either in the drive-thru or in-store, as some knob-head ahead of me takes half an hour to decide what they want, or to mess with their app-based payment systems, or to gossip with the server. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the diversity angle where sometimes you need to state your order to three different staffers due to language barriers. One time, the language barrier was so severe they had to put me on the phone with some official from the United Nations. (Just kidding, though that might also explain some of the delays in the lineups.)
All in all, I am glad I stopped supporting Tim Horton's.
Sunday, September 13, 2026
DEI in Transportation Could Be Deadly
In reference to the language issue, it reminded me how the rapid demographic changes in the Hamilton taxi business, beginning in the 1990s impacted the formerly smooth two-way radio dispatch system. By the time the zeroes arrived, radio dispatch communication became nearly impossible. This paved the way for the adoption of distractive and dangerous computerized dispatch systems.
Diversity was definitely not a strength.
It's a good thing, in a way, that the volume of business per cab had declined so significantly over the years to the point where the cabs were moving only about 10% of the time. If it had been busy, like it used to be, with all the cabs in motion, there would have been multiple crashes caused by drivers fiddling with their computer screens instead of having their eyes on the road.
Saturday, September 12, 2026
AI Reviews of Confessions of a Hamilton Cab Driver
META AI
**Confessions of a Hamilton Cab Driver** by Hans Wienhold is exactly what the title promises — and a lot more than that.
### The Premise
It's the story of one man's adventures in the Hamilton taxi business spanning the years from 1977 to 2018. Wienhold frames it with disarming modesty:
> "There is nothing particularly unique about my story. Every cab driver has his own. Not every cab driver gets around to writing a book about it."
Over 255 pages, published May 2023, he drove thousands of customers to their destinations, most happily satisfied if not downright euphoric, and now he finally tells what happened in between dispatch and drop-off. It's also available in French and German.
### What Makes It Work
This isn't a nostalgic love letter to the open road. It's a working driver's manual for survival.
Wienhold gives away many of the trade secrets used by smart drivers to avoid "dead calls" (no customer to pick up) or "pukers" (mainly to be found at closing time, on bar calls). Chapter titles like "Groceries," "My first dead trip," and "Hookers" tell you he is not romanticizing.
The best anecdotes come when the job collides with real life. Road Warrior News, in its review of the book, singled out this one:
> For the last few years of his life, my father was a resident in a nursing home... the social worker turned to me and said, "You're a taxi driver. Can't you get him a hooker?"
That dry, unshockable timing is the book's engine.
He is upfront about the ethics too:
> "Some will find my tactics in the trade disagreeable. Others will nod their heads knowingly. Politicians and their regulatory staffers will be outraged."
> "Too bad for them. I already quit."
### Style and Voice
If you have followed Wienhold's Taxi News columns you know the voice. As that Road Warrior review put it: "The most essential gift for a good writer," Ernest Hemingway famously noted, "is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector" — and Wienhold is in a class of his own as a Bullshit Detective.
His official bio leans into it: "Welfare Recipient at Senior's Welfare; Self-Employed; and also, a Climate Scientist at BS Detective Services." The author bio on Amazon is even better: "I am an unemployed taxi driver living in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada. Over the course of my working years, I have had forty-five different jobs across a range of industries from sheet metal worker and carpenter, to oil well drilling, bar security, tax preparation, lab technician, taxi driver, and finally, a best smelling author."
The prose is plainspoken, first-person, conversational — no literary pretension, just a guy who has spent 40 years listening in the rearview mirror and has a good memory.
### Hamilton as a Character
While the stories are derived from the way the taxi business operated in Hamilton, Ontario in those times, Wienhold is confident that any taxi driver, just about anywhere in the world will be able to relate to them. He's right, but the Hamilton specificity is what makes it valuable as local history.
You get the one-way streets, the steel-town bar rushes, the pre-Uber era when cash flowed freely and part-time drivers could pick up a shift or two as they needed the money, and then the arrival of Uber — which Wienhold famously parodied in his "Travis meets Travis" video () — and the regulatory collapse that followed.
It's a small slice of Hamilton history from the front seat.
### Verdict
**Rating: 4.5 / 5 — and Amazon readers seem to agree, currently sitting at 4.6 out of 5 stars**
It's funny, occasionally politically incorrect, deeply practical, and unexpectedly tender. It's not polished memoir in the MFA sense. That's the point. It reads like a cab driver finally got tired of people asking "what's the craziest thing you've seen?" and decided to write it all down at once.
**Who should read it:**
- Any current or former taxi / Uber / Lyft driver in Ontario
- Hamiltonians who want to understand how their city actually moved for 40 years
- Anyone who likes true, unvarnished working-class memoirs — think Studs Terkel meets a Steel City dispatch radio
If you drove cab in this town, you will nod your head knowingly. If you didn't, you will never look at a "No Vacancy" light on Barton Street the same way again.
Review from Google Gemini
Published in May 2023, **"Confessions of a Hamilton Cab Driver"** by Hans Wienhold offers a raw, unfiltered memoir chronicling over four decades behind the wheel in Hamilton, Ontario. Covering his time driving from 1977 through 2018, Wienhold blends local street-level history with a distinct, libertarian-leaning critique of municipal governance and regulation.
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### Core Themes & Content
* **Four Decades of Hamilton History:** Wienhold documents the changing urban landscape of Hamilton—from the bustling, blue-collar nightlife of the late 1970s and 1980s around spots like Augusta Street to the modern, tech-disrupted era.
* **The Behind-the-Scenes Taxi Ecosystem:** The book strips away the romanticism of cab driving, laying bare the day-to-day realities: navigating dispatch systems, dealing with late-night bar crowds, handling erratic passengers, and managing the delicate economics of being an independent driver.
* **Critique of Bureaucracy & Regulations:** A recurring focal point is Wienhold’s fierce resistance to local policy. He details his frustrations with municipal taxi licensing (such as the "equity plate system"), smoking bans, and city hall enforcement, arguing that over-regulation consistently hurt drivers and consumers alike.
* **The Uber Era:** The closing eras of his career tackle the arrival of rideshare apps, offering an insider perspective on how Uber disrupted traditional cab brokerages and municipal taxi structures.
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### Key Strengths
* **Authentic Local Flavor:** Wienhold writes with an unvarnished, direct, and often abrasive voice that reflects decades of working late-night shifts on gritty city streets.
* **Unique Historical Lens:** For readers interested in Hamilton’s local history, the memoir provides a rare, low-level view of the city’s social evolution that official histories rarely capture.
* **Sharp Wit and Cynicism:** Wienhold styles himself as a "bullshit detective," filling the narrative with pragmatic, stubborn humor and colorful anecdotes from his daily interactions.
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### Considerations for Readers
* **Opinionated Stance:** The book is as much a political treatise as it is a collection of cabbie stories. Readers looking purely for lighthearted fare may find the strong anti-regulatory, anti-establishment commentary polarizing.
* **Episodic Structure:** Because it collects decades of individual experiences, the narrative functions more as a series of standalone vignettes and essays rather than a tight, continuous narrative arc.
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### Verdict
**Confessions of a Hamilton Cab Driver** is a compelling read for locals, history buffs, and anyone curious about the taxi industry. It delivers an unedited slice of Hamilton life, served with a heavy dose of working-class cynicism and independent spirit.
Get your copy here.
Censorship at The Hamilton Spectator
Update: September 30, 2026.
In the runnup to Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, A.K.A. "Orange Shirt Day," the Spectator pumped out some propaganda reinforcing the divisive and dishonest native genocide narrative with gusto. It pumped out an opinion piece titled, "Orange Shirt Day: Why ‘Every child matters’ still needs to be said." I posted a few comments to that propagandistic rant and every one of them were censored by the Spectator behind-the-curtain commissars. It did not suprise me. I post comments fully expecting them to be censored, but in so doing they provide me with documentary evidence of their sleazy manipulation of information and opinion they present to the public.
Here are some screenshots:
The piece appeared in the September 29, 2026 edition of the Spectator, As of 4:30 p.m. of September 30, it it is evident that the Spectator commissar(s) only permitted four comments to see the light of day.
This is how the Spectator abuses its readers.
I used to send a lot of letters to the editors of papers like the Hamilton Spectator and the Toronto Sun. One out of ten might get published. The mainstream press had a solid choke hold on the kinds of opinions they would allow their subscribers to see.
Along came the internet. I couldn't wait to get on. Google tells me the Hamilton-Wentworth Freenet came online on April 28, 1995. I jumped right on it with my XT compatible clone computer and its 2400 baud modem. It was a fascinating experience. I remember downloading a bitmap of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from the Library of Congress. It must have taken two hours to download. I printed it on my dot matrix printer and framed it. From a distance it looks just like an ordinary black and white photograph. I still have it. A visitor once asked me if that was a picture of my grandfather.
(Note: Click on the images if they appear blurry. A clearer view will pop up.)
The browser was called "Lynx." It was all text-based. I had a monochrome monitor with green text.
While exploring the Lynx browser I tripped across a menu item labelled [View Source.] When I clicked(?) on it, I got my first view of HTML markup language. It looked easy enough so I proceeded to learn it. At the same time, I realized I had discovered a way to circumvent the Junk News oligopoly and publish my "Letters to the Editor" online. What I did not realize at the time was that I was seeing the genesis of Alternative News. And I was participating in it.
It was obvious from the start that the Junk News industry was seriously threatened by this new technology. Then they spent the next thirty years trying to put the genie back in the bottle. Without much success. Fast forward to today and we see the Junk News industry in Canada cannot survive without government subsidies.
I call it Junk News because it is analogous to Junk Food. Junk food for the mind.
At around the same time, the Spectator operated a community Bulletin Board Service. (BBS) They called it "Compuspec," later "Speclink." There were several forums on there and the political debates between the wokerattie and the truly conscious were fierce. In those days, free speech seemed sacred and I was never once censored by the administrators.
My, how things have changed.
My Hamilton Spectator subscription autorenews on September 30, 2026. I have set a reminder on my calendar to cancel my subscription well before they charge my credit card. Why should I pay for such a purveyor of woke propaganda, and an abusive one at that, when I can find the same crud elsewhere for free?
Especially irksome is the Spectator's abusive treatment of its subscribers via its practice of censoring any subscriber comments their man behind the curtain doesn't like.
In today's (Sept 12, 2026) edition they published a report about a guy from Stoney Creek who has been arrested for alleged wilful promotion of hatred, advocating genocide and wilful promotion of antisemitism on X. As is all too typical of government-funded media these days, they almost always omit any description of the offending content. Given that so-called "Hate speech," etc. these days can be just about anything anyone claims to be offended by, it is more important than ever that the reading public be informed of the offending content in order to decide for themselves whether said content qualifies as "Hate speech."
Knowing it's a coin toss, I nevertheless opted to post the first comment to the report.
As usual, there is no description of the offensive tweet. Why are these essential details always kept from public view?
That comment was graciously accepted by the Spec commissars behind the curtain. It sparked some debate. There was the expected contingent of subscribers who defended the decision to keep the offensive tweet hidden from view. Of course, I engaged with some of them. This is when the Spectator's censorship abuse shifted into high gear.
There was more,
And this one:
The message the Hamilton Spectator is sending me is, "Don't bother commenting. Your opinions are not wanted here." Either that, or get used to self-censoring. "Oskee Wee Wee" and Auntie Annie's bake sale is acceptable. Elbows Up! too.
Note that my comments did not attempt to incite hatred of any identity group, did not contain any incitement to genocide, nor even the mildest profanity, yet it still ran afoul of the Spectator's so-called "Community Guidelines."
Now the Spectator is a private company, leaving aside the implications of any bribes it receives from the federal government. It can censor anyone it wants to censor for good reasons, bad reasons, or no reason at all. However, given the sleazy practices I have described here, the reliablity of a platform that purports adhere to the following claim,
Conversations within the Spectator’s news and information platforms offer an opportunity for readers to engage in healthy dialogue, share their thoughts on specific topics and help us foster engagement and transparency with our readership. Conversations, added to select Spectator articles, allow our community of registered users to share thoughtful ideas with other readers and our newsroom.Conversations are a space to converse about news and information, and the issues they highlight, as well as discuss questions highlighted by the Spectator newsroom. We ask that readers stay on topic with the intended purpose of the Conversations. Feel free to discuss ideas but avoid personal attacks. Universal human rights are not up for debate on our sites.
appears highly disingenous.
Subscribers who find their comments routinely censored by the Spectator commissars will find The Spectator's claim that "the Spectator’s news and information platforms offer an opportunity for readers to engage in healthy dialogue, share their thoughts on specific topics and help us foster engagement and transparency with our readership" laughable.
Of course, any chicken dancers browsing the same comment sections will remain blissfully ignorant of the degree of manipulation being foisted upon them in the background. I doubt chicken dancer opinions are ever censored.
Knowing they conduct themselves in a manner that is not perceptible by the average reader, and thus, deceptive, do you really think it's worth paying for a Spec subscription?
I don't.
They can block me out on their own platform, but they can't hide their nefarious activities as long alternative platforms exist.
Update, September 14, 2026 in This Report: They did it again.
Other examples of Spectator censorship.
On Hamilton's proposal to mandate air conditioning in rental units.
On Hamilton Dive Bars.
On Hamilton's woke transportation fantasies.
On the LRT
Friday, September 11, 2026
Before the arrival of European Colonists Bullshit
You just can't escape the bullshit. As part of an effort on my part to take a break from monitoring the cesspool of politics, I allocate the later hours of the evenings to watching movies and TV series. But, no matter where you turn, you find your nose being rubbed in woke bullshit.
For example, the very first line in the opening shot of the movie "The Bygone," on Amazon Prime says "Before the arrival of European colonists, sexual violence was virtually nonexistent on North American soil."
Some of the reading I have recently done to better acquaint myself with the Native peoples of North America contradicts that assertion. For example, one question I asked Brave was, "did Matonabbee murder his wife?" The answer it returned was,
"Yes, historical accounts indicate that Matonabbee murdered one of his spouses. According to explorer Samuel Hearne, Matonabbee killed a wife who had cast doubt on his ability to satisfy his many other wives, an act Hearne described as stemming from Matonabbee's jealousy which sometimes took him "beyond the bounds of humanity."
While Hearne generally portrayed Matonabbee in positive terms, he acknowledged this specific incident of domestic violence. Matonabbee was a prominent Chipewyan leader and fur trade intermediary who later died by suicide in 1782 after the destruction of Fort Prince of Wales."
Where do these script writers get the balls to spew such unmitigated horseshit? Can I ask that question in Canada without fear of arrest and possible jail time?
Then I asked Meta AI, "Is it true that Before the arrival of European colonists, sexual violence was virtually nonexistent on North American soil?"
Meta AI answers,
No, that is not true.
Sexual violence has existed in every region of the world throughout human history, including in North America before 1492. The claim that it was "virtually nonexistent" contradicts both the anthropological record and the internal legal norms of Indigenous societies themselves.
There seems to be absolutely no escape from woke bullshit these days.
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
"Credentialled" Scientists
This summer may have been the coldest on record at the North Pole. Temperatures never got above freezing, despite continuous sunlight for months. The Arctic melting scam is dying in real time.https://t.co/YzVgxDhIlL https://t.co/6CGFDJxMWt pic.twitter.com/qcU221SIan
— Tony Heller 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 (@TonyClimate) September 4, 2026
Oh bollocks. It was a link to an X post by Tony Heller. Debunked as pseudoscience by whom? The scamsters that compiled that debunked list of 11,000 "scientists" who signed the same "Emergency Declaration" I signed back in 2019?
I have been following Heller's work for about a decade now. He has done excellent work exposing the AGW fraud time and time again, from alleged rising sea levels, to "wild" fires, to the fraudulent tampering with temperature data and every other slick trick used by these high priests of the climate scam to keep the chicken dancers scared and the government cash flowing.
If you want to talk about "debunked" climate claims, just google, "list global warming predictions that were proved wrong" and check out the results.
I am sick and tired of climate saps invoking the "credentialled" scientists mantra in defence of the global planned economy agenda. Ezra Levant did an excellent exposé of that fake "Scientists Warning" back in 2019. It was pants-pissing funny. Some examples of the "scientist" signatories:
- a "Relationships advisor,"
- a vocational school teacher,
- a lawyer,
- a light bulb manufacturer,
- a family physician,
- a physiology teacher,
- a running instructor,
- a kid's author,
- and an expert in reincarnation
- and more ridiculous examples of "scientists."
When I came across the page inviting signatories I immediately saw through the mountain of bullshit, (See Ezra's report,) so I decided to sign the list myself just to see if it would be included in the list of "scientists." It was. And thanks to Ezra's exposé, the creators of that list ended up with a whole lot of chicken dancer egg on their faces. The Hamilton Spectator interviewed me about it. I insisted the interview be conducted via email rather than on the phone since I was already familiar with their sleazy quoting tactics and I wanted to keep a record of the correspondence in case they applied their usual slimy spin on my words.
When their report was published online, they must have been half asleep because they gave it the heading, "Retired Hamilton cabbie gets himself on list of fake scientists declaring climate emergency." What a laugh that was. They corrected that headline for the paper edition. I believe it was due to my insistence on an email interview that the report was about as fair and accurate as can be expected from the Spectator for the most part.
Note from the Spec report,
"Three undergraduate students were among the five scientists from McMaster to sign the declaration. One student studies ecology and the other two are in physics. Spokesperson Gord Arbeau refused to say whether the three students are employed by McMaster as scientists or whether the university considers them scientists."
Not climate scientists.
Also from the Spec report,
"Given the sheer number of people endorsing this important declaration, an administrative error unfortunately saw the inclusion of a small number of invalid names," reads a statement on the website, where the list was originally accessible."
Administrative error? Of course it was exactly the kind of "administrative error" anyone with half a brain might expect when they launch a campaign that allows anyone to sign up. Only a naive sap would buy that crap.
Finally, from the same report,
"The final two signatories from McMaster are working scientists. Sebastian Irazuzta is a an environmental biologist and PhD candidate. Daniel Traylor is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of kinesiology."
Kinesiology.
Not climate scientists.
They are individuals who have been firmly indoctrinated into climate cultism. These days, any alleged expert in just about any field can be counted upon to dutifully blame everything from disfunction in Indigenous communities, to the proliferation of potholes, to ingrown toenails and post nasal drip on "climate change." Five hundred years ago these same personality types would be blaming every negative event on the displeasure of their God(s). Probably the same people who advised people to inhale the fumes from public latrines to protect them from the Black Plague. It would make great comedy if not for its deadly serious consequences.
So, again, who but a sap swallows this climate scam horseshit hook, line, and sinker? Instead of slurping up the slop you are being fed by politicians and popular corporate media, and regurgitating it on social media, I suggest you learn how to think for yourself.
Retired Hamilton cabbie gets himself on list of fake scientists declaring climate emergency
Monday, August 31, 2026
Friday, August 28, 2026
Popping the Stand - An Oil Rig Story
On the second rig I ever worked on, I had gained a certain amount of experience, about eight months worth, and had moved up two steps on the promotional ladder, to motorman. One day a new guy was hired. I was already able to take one look at a new hire and predict whether he would last three days. But this guy was hard to gauge. One of the roughnecks directed the new guy to the change shack - where you change into your work clothes, not where you get coins for the coke machine. He came to work wearing denim jeans and jacket. He told the roughneck he didn't need to change. (And he had his own Coke.) Gossip travels fast on the rigs. That roughneck promptly reported the exchange to the rest of the crew. We had a good laugh at that.
Then the guy made the mistake of commenting to one of the cooks as they watched us perform the operation seen in this video. He told her, "They'll never get me up there doing that." Again, gossip travels fast on the rigs. She told one of the roughnecks, and he told Art, the driller. When Art heard that, he said, "Oh yeah? Well, we'll get him up here for the next connection."
A short while later, we had to "Trip out," I.E. pull all of the pipe out of the hole to change the bit. Art dragged the new guy in his denims up to "the floor" to participate. The holes in the drillbit were plugged, which meant the drilling mud remained in the pipe. Thus, each 18 meter stand was full of drilling mud, about 29 gallons worth, and 18 meters worth of pressure from a column of dense mud. It created a circumstance resembling an elephant with explosive diarrhea.
There were three ways to separate the pipes when they were full of mud. There was a tool called a "mud can" that could be wrapped around the tool joint - the point where two pipes were threaded together. It shunted the unwanted mud off via a hose into the sump. The problem with this approach was it was time-consuming and there was very little tolerance on the rigs for time-consuming activities.
My two co-workers were from rural Ontario. They were decent guys and we worked well together up on the floor. They only had a couple of months in, but they had passed the interview process and we synced well together on the floor. A well-sycned crew and driller is like an orchestra, believe it or not. I can still see the mischieveous grins on their faces as New Guy came up to the floor in his country and western duds. As rotten and miserable as rig work was in those days, we all sensed we were going to have a bit of fun that night, albeit at someone else's expense. At least the guy didn't lose an arm or leg.
A slightly faster method would involve the driller gently separating the two pipes so that most of the mud would just trickle down around the lower pipe, through the rig floor and into the cellar, to be cleaned up by one of the roughnecks later. This was the technique that was used most of the time.
But Art was in a hurry. The three of us with experience donned our yellow slickers in preparation for what we knew was going to be a messy job. The new guy didn't see any need to.
Art decided to use the fastest method, called "Popping the stand." Once the pipes were unscrewed, he would jerk the upper stand loose. If you ever saw the movie "Perfect Storm" with George Cluny, you know what came next, only, this wasn't seawater, it was thick grey drilling mud. About thirty gallons worth in each pop.
That poor new guy in his denim jean outfit was covered in mud from head to toe. Maybe he changed his clothes when he got home.
Art was a real screamer with zero patience which wasn't uncommon in Alberta rig culture in the late 1970s. He wouldn't bother you as long as you did your job, but if not, he was Gunnery Sergeant Lawrence Hartman from Full Metal Jacket. And he could be cruel at times. Maybe that was necessary.
"You fuck up on an oil rig and I goddamn guarantee you a trip out of the lease... in an ambulance! Out here, assholes, you keep your shit wired tight at all times!"Paraphrasing Sgt. Barnes in "Platoon."
As we unscrewed one of the connections, a narrow stream of mud came squirting out aimed directly at Art in his nice clean orange coveralls. He immediately ordered the new recruit to stand in front of the mud stream, preventing it from soiling Art's coveralls. What the heck, he was already covered in mud, anyway. Art looked at the rest of us with a sly smirk on his face as if to say, "I finally found something this guy is good for."
It was around that time I started to understand why rig job interviews were so short and sweet.
Driller: "You got any experience?"
Applicant: "Yes, I worked roughneck and motors."
Driller: "Go change your clothes." Meaning you're hired.
The real part of the interview lasted over the next three days. If you were still there on Day 4, you passed.
That new guy? He failed the interview. That was the last time we saw him. He fired himself.
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
The Paradox of Higher Education Part II
This is part II of my recent essay, The "Higher Education" Paradox.
Here is a definition of astronomy from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.
astronomy
noun
as·tron·o·my
plural astronomies
Simple Definition
: the study of objects and matter outside the earth's atmosphere and of their physical and chemical properties
The Merriam-Webster entry goes on to explain the difference between astronomy and astrology.
Did you know?The Difference Between Astronomy and Astrology
Some may find it easy to confuse astronomy and astrology. At one time, these two words actually were synonymous (that is, astronomy once meant what astrology means today), but they have since moved apart from each other. In current use, astronomy is concerned with “the study of objects and matter outside the earth's atmosphere,” while astrology is the purported divination of how stars and planets influence our lives. Put bluntly, astronomy is a science, and astrology is not.
When I was in Grade 11 at Westmount High School, one of the courses I took was physics. Due to the time of day, perhaps, second period in the morning, or the monotonous drone of the teacher, my routine was the same every single day. I would sit down in my spot at the lab bench, put my head down, and sleep for the next forty-five minutes. One day, the teacher interupted my studies to ask me if I was okay. I told him I was fine and went back to sleep. I was always partially awake during lab exercises because I had to stand and perform certain motions. Thanks to those exercises, I managed to pick up a thing or two pertaining to the science of physics. But not much.
I dropped out of Grade 13 at HCI after not quite completing the first semester and started working for a living. A short while later, I borrowed a copy of Isaac Asimov's book, "The Universe." I loved it. While reading it, I realized that some of the physics I had picked up osmotically in Grade 11 helped me to understand some of the concepts Asimov described, like the Doppler Effect, and why it had led astronomers to conclude that the universe was expanding.
That experience helped me realize that there was some value in education and motivated me to take another stab at Grade 13 with a focus on math and science. I got my diploma.
A few years later, I studied chemistry at Mohawk College.
The point I am trying to make is that I have a certain understanding of what science is and how it works.
Here is an example of "Indigenous Astronomy." This is not what I think of when I think of "astronomy." And when this is promoted as a form of astronomy, it's an example of what I call government-funded BULLSHIT.
Imagine you are a young student who has been taught "astronomy" in this woman's class. The odds are high that you will have a very different understanding of "astronomy" from mine. If this type of pedagogy continues to spread in Canada's so-called "education" system, God help us all.
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Friday, August 14, 2026
The "Higher Education" Paradox
One thing I have noticed over the years is that too many of the supposedly "Educated" people I have met, read, or watched online, rarely know what they are talking about. Or maybe I am the idiot. So I have been told in many of my encounters, in person, and on social media. Censors at the Hamilton Spectator seem to consider my level of idiocy so profound that they consider it a violation of their "Community Standards" and delete about half of my comments on their "news" and opinion articles.
I met an old high school acquaintance one night in the early 1980s at the Winking Judge pub. It was around the time Canada was still reeling from the double-digit inflation of the print and spend effects of the first Trudeau administration. Catching up, he revealed that he had graduated from university, I think it was McMaster, with a degree in economics and was now employed in that capacity with the Ontario government.
Since inflation was a hot topic at that time, I described the Monetarist Theory of Inflation to him. His response surprised the hell out of me.
"Hmmm, I've never heard of that! It kind of makes sense."
I didn't say anything but I was thinking, "You have a university degree in economics but you have never heard of the Monetarist Theory of Inflation. WTF kind of education is that?"
My second thought was, "It figures you got a government job."
Over the next forty plus years I have had many similar such encounters.
Another personal observation of the degradation in the value of academic credentials occurred while I was attending the Chemical Engineering Technician program at Mohawk college.
In September, 1981, there were over forty students in the class. Some had to stand in the classrooms for lack of seats. That problem started to rectify almost immediately. Within a few months, many had dropped out and there was plenty of seating. How much government money had been pissed away by that, I do no know. By the time graduation rolled around, two years later, there were only a few of us left. I can't remember exactly how many, but it was something like 11 or 14.
Among the graduates were two guys who took three years to complete the two-year program. One of my lab partners also graduated. I've never known anyone to work as hard as he did, yet learn nothing. As the last semester wound down, I observed him and another struggling student at the front of the class asking the teacher to explain acid/base reactions. That was something we were supposed to have learned in the first semester.
Already well advanced in my libertarian/conservative thinking, I noted the event as just one more example of the failure of government-engineered programs to achieve their purported goals, indeed they usually accomplish the exact opposite, and to accomplish this at the cost of massive missallocation of human resources and capital. And I was a little ticked off. These guys would have the same credential as me, but neither were competent. What would the value of a Mohawk College Chemical Technician's Diploma have if that Chemical Engineering Technician "Graduate" were hired on that basis, only to blow up or release a deadly gas into the employer's lab?
One of those guys got a job working on an assembly line, which is what he wanted to do all along. He entered the college course under pressure from his parents. Two years of his life were wasted in addition to the tax dollars wasted on his "education." Well, he did learn what a graduated cylinder is, and what a gas is. But was it worth all of those subsidies?
As an example of the danger he represented, I will describe what happened in the lab one day. After forty-plus years, the details are a little foggy, but the salient point is still fresh. We were doing something involving orlon fibres. Part of the procedure involved collecting 5 mL of hydrazine sulphate solution in a graduated cylinder. My lab partner could barely read. He had slightly adapted to this learning deficit by reading the lab instructions out loud. As he read his procedure notes aloud, he would use a different word every time he encountered the word, "Orlon." It came out variously as "Orion," Olean," and "Oreo," etc. Made me think of cookies. Then it struck me. I told him one of the reasons he was having such difficulty with this program was that he could not read. I suggested he consider taking a remedial reading course. He was insulted. He indignantly informed me that he had won awards for literature at this high school. Yeah. Even in the early 1980s, Ontario schools were graduating students who could not read, and colleges like Mohawk were accepting them. This signaled a potential problem, I thought, especially in the vacinity of hazardous materials.
The quality of his high school's history department was no better than their literature department. One time, I asked him if he knew who Adolf Hitler was. Without hesitation, he replied, "Of course, everybody knows that. Hitler was an Australian who defected to the Nazis." Maybe he read it wrong?
So my lab partner picked up a 10 mL graduated cylinder and started ambling toward the fume hood where a canister of deadly H2S was waiting. I did not immediately warn him. I wanted to see how far he would go. To his credit, he stopped about halfway to the fume hood, scratched his head, and walked back to me. He said, "How am I supposed to collect 5 mL of hydrogen sulfide? It's a gas." I explained to him that the recipe did not call for H2S, and reminded him again about the advisability of a remedial reading course.
Six Months Later
I received a call from the Mohawk placement office in late September, 1983. The guy on the phone asked me if I would be interested in working in a research lab in Kingston, Ontario. He sounded almost frantic. We're counting on you to get this job. It will give Mohawk a foot in the door for future graduates. The first two guys we sent up failed the technical interviews miserably. I asked for the names of the two failed candidates. They were the two who took three years to complete the two year course. I knew they were the wrong choice because, in class, whenever they answered a question, they got the answer wrong almost 100% of the time. I was thinking, "Well, duh!" Not that the technical questions were difficult. I recall a question about gas laws, like "what happens to the volume of a gas if its temperature is increased?"
Speaking of science, when my youngest son was in Grade 8, I asked him what his favourite subject was. He said, "Science." Then I asked him what he was learning in science class. I was expecting a list of basic scientific concepts like precipitation, evaporation, freezing, sublimation, and so on; the kind of stuff I learned in public school. Instead, his answer stunned me. "Global Warming." (This is how they baste their chickens for future votes.)
Another time, I was with my daughter, who would have been in about Grade 6 at the time when we heard the name "Al Gore" mentioned on the radio. I asked her if she knew who Al Gore was. Her answer blew me away, too. "Yes. We saw his movie in school."
These kids were not being taught science. They were being propagandized. At public expense. More tax dollars were being pissed away to make con artists like Al Gore rich.
One thing I noticed an social media during the Covid mass hysteria event was the number of people who would confidently urge sceptics to "Believe in the science." This was when it occurred to me, based on the insights my kids gave me, that the word "Science" had different meanings to different people. And that a lot of naive young minds exposed to climate scam propaganda in "Science" classes walked away believing that the word "Science" was nothing more than a series of declarations made by their woke teachers and so-called "Scientists." And that many, perhaps most of them had never actually been exposed to any real science. (See Retired Hamilton cabbie gets himself on list of fake scientists declaring climate emergency. Get the "list of fake scientists" part. They fixed that in the paper edition.)
Finally, which political parties attract support from the cohorts with supposedly "Higher Educations?"
I asked Brave.
First, the Americans.
Which party do better educated Americans vote for?
Americans with college degrees now predominantly vote for the Democratic Party, marking a significant reversal from the mid-20th century when higher education correlated with Republican support. This "diploma divide" has widened since roughly 2000, with college-educated voters drifting toward Democrats while those without four-year degrees have shifted toward the Republicans.
Current polling data highlights this split:
Bachelor’s degree or higher: The Democratic Party holds a 13-point advantage (55% Democratic vs. 42% Republican).
Postgraduate degrees: The Democratic lead is even starker, with 61% identifying as or leaning Democratic compared to 37% Republican.
Without a bachelor’s degree: The Republican Party holds a 6-point advantage (51% Republican vs. 45% Democratic).
This realignment is driven by cultural and social factors, as college-educated Americans tend to be more liberal on issues like social values and environmental policy, while non-college voters increasingly prioritize populist economic messages associated with the GOP. (Duh!)
What about Canadians?
Which party do better educated Canadians vote for?
Better educated Canadians in Canada tend to vote for left-leaning parties, specifically the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party (NDP), while support for the Conservative Party has increasingly concentrated among less educated voters since the 1990s.
Liberal and NDP Support: University-educated voters are significantly more likely to support the Liberals and NDP, a trend attributed to their socially liberal positions and focus on issues like climate change and social equity.
Conservative Decline: The Conservative Party has seen a substantial decline in support from higher-educated demographics, with the party becoming increasingly reliant on voters with lower education levels.
Economic vs. Cultural Divide: While higher education correlates with left-leaning voting, higher income remains a stronger predictor of right-leaning support; however, the "diploma divide" has become a dominant factor, with educated voters prioritizing cultural and social values over pure economic self-interest.
Recent Trends: Despite the general trend, some recent polling indicates a shift among young, less economically secure voters toward the Conservatives, though this group does not necessarily represent the highest education levels.
"Highest education levels." Like the "economist" who had never heard of the Monetarist Theory of Inflation?
Need I say more? The higher the "Education" the greater the odds that they are dumber than two buckets of shit. They are not "Better educated." They are more thoroughly brainwashed.
I knew how this would evolve as a result of my visit to the McMaster University Bookstore, circa 1982. I browsed the polisci and economics sections to find some free-market oriented books. What I saw was that most of the available books consisted of left wing horseshit, Marxism, etc. As the result says, "University-educated voters are significantly more likely to support the Liberals and NDP, a trend attributed to their socially liberal positions and focus on issues like climate change and social equity." There's no mystery here because they have been marinated in commie ideology since Kindergarten.
Conclusion.
This phenomenon is not just endemic to Canada and the USA. It prevails across all of Western Civilization from Europe to Australia and New Zealand. The new word is wokery, but it goes back a lot further. The worm really started to turn in the 1960s. The weak and congenitally useless are now in charge. Just look at your elected representatives. And it has been accelerating.
Second Conclusion
Western civilization is fucked. It will take 1,000 years to extricate ourselves from this muck, if we ever do. I don't want to travel on this ship of fools but I don't think I have much choice.
Marshal McLuhan said, "To make an invisible environment visible, we must step outside it," and "Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment."
When it comes to chicken dancer thinking, I have always been an outsider, a part of the lunatic fringe. I have been observing the evolution of chicken dancer "thinking" from the outside for fifty years. Ayn Rand was right. What I see leaves me with no sense of optimism. I hope I am wrong.
Now on to what inspired this rant. It's well worth a read.
On the rot in higher education
And then there is the matter of Jason Arday.
More on Jason Arday
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
A Horny Man is Not Free Updated with META AI Assistance
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A Horny Man is Not Free
An Exploration of Proposals for the Achievement of Greater Human Equity. It's Time to License/Regulate Sex
Preface
I am re-posting an essay I wrote over two decades ago. I neglected to record the original date, but the context indicates it was written during the early years of the Mike Harris regime in Ontario. This same essay appears on an old website I built in 1998. Therefore, these data points indicate the essay was written after Mike Harris was elected 1995, and before the website was built in 1998.
The idea of this essay was to take the state of the world at the time, and apply "progressive," (I.E. leftist, communist, socialist, "liberal," Liberal (Ontario and Canada today) and fascist,) "thinking" to sketch a rough outline as to how we should expect the left to react once they got around to sticking their noses deeper into human affairs.
I have attempted to correct some of the common spellig and gammatical errors as of this posting, but not all of them. I have left the rest of the essay in original form even though I would have written it differently today. However, I have added a few of my current comments in [RED.]
Introduction
A great hue and cry have arisen in the wake of the electoral victory of Mike Harris and his Progressive Conservative government in Ontario. Numerous protests have erupted over various changes introduced by the Harris government, such as reductions in welfare spending and changes to labour legislation, calling them "Right wing" and "mean-spirited" etc.
The reaction is somewhat exaggerated. Ontario will, to the relief of the majority of its citizens, remain heavily socialized. The Harris cutbacks will inevitably be reversed by future governments citing the failure of the 'free market' policies of Harris and Co. At that time, the process of equalization can continue on its inexorable journey. [The Liberals have been straight-jacketing the province for fifteen years as of this posting.]
Socialists of all stripes must prepare for the future. A future full of activity for not only does the issue of full economic equality beckon but equality on other fronts must be addressed as well. This essay takes a look at another important area of human existence which has, so far, resisted significant egalitarian attention.
A serious social problem currently exists in the world which has not, to date, been referred to as a 'crisis' by government or the mass media. Yet this problem has consequences which, at least, equal and probably surpass the severity of, for example, homelessness, high medical insurance premiums, and traffic congestion. Indeed, Billions of people in the world currently engage in an activity which has no official oversight or guidelines, no regulation and perhaps worst of all, isn't taxed.
Everyone, at one time or another, becomes involved in the pursuit of romance. Due to the sad lack of government intervention in this area, the romance marketplace is, more or less, governed entirely by the outdated principle of Laissez Faire. The law of the jungle prevails. The distribution of satisfaction is unequal. It's a dog eat dog world.
Over one hundred million acts of sexual intercourse occur daily. Too many individuals engage in this activity with little or no training and as many more are ill-equipped to deal with its possible consequences (910,000 conceptions and 350,000 cases of sexually transmitted disease daily).
In Canada, intercourse probably happens around half a million times daily. So far, government has taken a hands-off approach to the problem of unregulated sex in this great land. The number of people who fall in love without official consent or guidance is also high. The consequences of this neglect are devastating.
Problems and Solutions
Parental Competence
Some people who have intercourse end up having children. Many, perhaps a majority, lack the qualifications to become good parents. At present, there are no regulations governing this crucial aspect of life.
Some have suggested that licensing parents would go a long way towards solving the problem of parental incompetence. Unfortunately, philoprogenitive behaviour has consequences that go far beyond successful engineering of children. Licensing parents, therefore, constitutes only a band-aid solution to a small part of a large problem.
The regulation and licensing of sex and romance would have positive effects in many other areas of government policy, including health, welfare, redistributive justice, discrimination and, of course, revenue enhancement.
It is almost universally agreed that compulsory education of children serves the public interest. The pubic interest might also be well served by a mandatory regime of sex and romance education for everyone who intends to become romantically involved at some time in their lives.
Those who successfully complete the program might be issued an S&R (Sex and Romance) card. The card might come with a magnetic stripe and photo ID to facilitate easy identification of conjugating couples. The license could be renewable annually at which time retesting might also take place. [Today, it would all be done with an app.]
A potential problem that exists wrt state indoctrination of children in the public school system is that some misguided parents may have very different opinions respecting morality and politics. Such parents would, no doubt, attempt to inflict upon their children ideas and beliefs which are at odds to those officially sanctioned by the public school system. [Or the Ontario Liberal government] Children exposed to such contradictory influences shall become confused and efforts by the state to inculcate correct values shall be frustrated.
The regulation and licensing of sex could ensure that applicants display the politically correct attitude before being issued permits for the activity under consideration. This would help weed out those deluded potential parents who exhibit any tendency for harmful or mistaken beliefs and opinions which undercut the best efforts of the state to achieve the opposite. [see: New Ontario law allows govt to seize children if parents oppose their 'gender identity' - RT]
Such a policy, if implemented, could be counted upon to streamline the process by which citizens are engineered to have correct opinions. With a successful regime of artificial selection, other programs and government departments, such as the Human Rights Commission, the corrections system and, of course, enforcement divisions of various government revenue departments could be reduced or eliminated.
Health
Sexually transmitted diseases impose a burden on the socialized medical system. The smoking of cigarettes after sex, often glamorized in the movies, imposes further stress upon the costs of medicare.
Precedents have already been set for government intrusion into the private sphere. Mandatory seat belt laws have been justified in part by the claim that reduced automobile injuries lower the cost of our socialized medicare system. "Rights imply responsibilities" was how one of Ontario's officials put it when seat belt use became mandatory. The government's campaign against cigarette smoking is largely motivated by similar concerns.
Similarities exist between addiction to drugs and addiction to sex. Drug addicts will lie, cheat and steal to support their habit. So will sex addicts. Addicts will often fight over drugs. Some men fight over women. Finally, those who engage in either activity run the risk of getting a lethal dose.
Our government has chosen prohibition as a means of fighting the non-approved use of drugs. Prohibition of sex might be tried but it would likely encounter a serious problem. That's right... enforcement.
Requiring citizens to have an S&R License could be an excellent means of reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted disease. Testing for venereal diseases could be included as part of the annual license renewal procedure. Those testing positive could be fined, imprisoned or (worse?) have their licenses suspended.
Applicants could be required to provide notarized documentation detailing the frequency and variety of sexual encounters. Failure to convince the license issuer that sufficient precautions had been taken against disease could result in demerit points leading to possible socialized medicare premium surcharges or the loss of some tax credits.
To placate those applicants who might consider these requirements an abominable invasion of privacy attention should be drawn to the income tax which long ago abolished privacy.
As with taxpayers, there could be a declaration of sexplayer rights which would include the following statement paraphrasing that found on the back of the yearly tax guide under the heading "Privacy and confidentiality": "You are entitled to expect that we will use the sexual and romantic information you provide us only for purposes the law allows".
Of course you could also be "entitled to expect" perpetual orgasms for the degree of obligation it imposes on the government. Yep, you are even "entitled to expect" to actually receive a cheque for 1.645671 million dollars the next time you get one of those magazine subscription offers in the mail.
Redistributive Justice
The distribution of sexual pleasure is unequal. The equality of opportunity that some argue exists hardly compensates for the inequality of OUTCOME or SUCCESS. Having sex appeal, good looks, a sense of humour, a 'great personality', musical talent, brains and money often give the possessor priority in mate selection over individuals not similarly endowed. In many cases, the qualities mentioned are due entirely to the luck of the draw at birth.
With the declining influence of some religions, with changing attitudes, and as the welfare state sends out the signal that having children is THE road to a comfortable middle class standard of living the old restrictions on the number of partners one has are weakened.
Some people have multiple partners while others have none. How long can this manifestly unfair situation be allowed to escape official notice? It's past time for interventionist governments to take an active role in the redistribution of sex and love. A horny man is not free. The current Incel phenomenon is worth studying in this context.
The government of Denmark has taken a step in the right direction by using public money to provide the services of prostitutes to handicapped individuals. In some ways, this is rather offensive. Why should someone be paid to perform services which one should be willing to perform for free out of a sense of "social justice," duty and obligation? Do these prostitutes not already have the right to numerous benefits offered by their welfare state? Rights imply obligations do they not?
The resulting distribution of romantic satisfaction is 'unfair'. One of the key functions of government, implicit in the overwhelming majority of discussions of government policy, is that it should make life 'fair'.
Numerous policies are adopted with the aim of achieving fair taxation, fair employment practices, fair housing policy, fair competition, fair prices, fair trade etc. Clearly, given the importance of satisfactory romantic affairs, prevailing attitudes should lead to a willing acceptance of a much greater government presence in the romantic lives of it's citizens.
[It starts innocently enough, as in the short report below. Eventually, it will be adopted by "progressive" governments with uniformed enforcers on the public payroll. Or it could be implemented the same way as anti-tobacco behaviour control, with fines for looking at attractive females, etc.]
▶ Watch on YouTube: Report on social policy / Denmark example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEK1fL7HGoThe government should therefore set up a new ministry. Call it "Togetherness Canada". Like some private dating services it could use computers to match up it's members. Unlike private dating services, which attempt to match up compatible couples, a procedure which relies too strongly upon the anarchy of the marketplace, Togetherness Canada would have 'fairness' as it's prime objective although compatibility should remain a part of its mandate. Also, unlike private services, membership would be mandatory.
No government oversight or regulations exist to ensure that couples who marry or co-habit are actually compatible. The costs to society as a result of individuals making the wrong choices appear in the form of family violence and the emotional trauma suffered by children whose parents are going through expensive divorce proceedings, chasing down deadbeat ex-husbands who refuse to make support payments, psychological counseling of couples having difficulties and more.
Obviously, many of these problems are the result of people getting hitched up who really don't know what they're getting themselves into.
Some deluded fools might think that individuals can make their own decisions in these matters; that freedom carries with it the possibility that the wrong choice might be made, and the responsibility to accept the consequences of failure as well as the rewards of success. This might be OK in a world where everyone is omniscient but such is, of course, not the case on this planet.
Clearly then, there is an important role for knowledgeable experts, chosen by politicians and endowed with special coercive powers, to ensure that no individual be permitted to make serious decisions without appropriate oversight.
Anti-discrimination
Discrimination on the grounds of race, religion, mental or physical handicap, income, receipt of social assistance, age, personal hygiene, the type of car one drives, whether or not one can play a guitar and, of course, gender are known to be rampant. Sexual orientation is unique in that it leads to numerous instances of reverse discrimination.
Such widespread discrimination is scandalous in a society which demands that all groups be proportionately represented in the statistics which measure success. On the grounds that discrimination can severely damage the self esteem of members of certain designated groups, such discrimination is prohibited by law in the areas of, for example, employment and housing. Should it not also be prohibited in the vital area of romantic happiness?
Some people report emotional devastation when rejected by present or potential lovers almost as severe as that which accompanies having a lease application turned down in a rent controlled city.
The emotional impact of the competition for sex and love can be overpowering for some people. Failure to achieve one's desires can, in some cases, lead to drug addiction, drunkenness, financial problems and even murder and/or suicide. [See, for example, the cases of Elliot Rodger, and Alek Minassian] The housing and medicare crises are exacerbated by the existence of this sociosexual injustice.
Systemic discrimination is also a serious problem. Often, the opportunities for satisfying or other romantic relationships are not properly advertised. Instead, contact is made orally, through family and friends, through social clubs or church affiliations, and through bars, street corners, alleyways and public restrooms.
Seldom do prospective lovers advertise in minority publications. Bad breath or extreme body odour may frustrate the ambitions of a potential suitor if the suit(ee) has not taken reasonable measures to provide mouthwash or soap.
Part of the mandate of Togetherness Canada should include a mandate for the achievement of Love Equity.
All members having received the benefits of compulsory education should have the basic skill necessary to write reports. Thus there should be no problem with the additional requirement, modeled along the lines of the (former) Ontario NDP government's Employment Equity Act (Bill 79), that all members submit a Love Equity plan that sets goals and timetables and describes what the individual will do to break down the barriers and give all suitors equal opportunity in the sexplace.
An overview of Bill 79 published by the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship indicated that Employment Equity plans should include "positive measures to help members of designated groups secure equitable treatment in the workplace -- for example, mentoring or bridging programs".
Sex equity plans would have to include similar measures to assist members in meeting, dating, marrying and satisfying members of designated groups.
Sections of the EEA also required "supportive measures that benefit all employees -- for instance, flexible working hours".
Of course, no Love Equity program would be complete without borrowing from another part of Bill 79, "accommodation measures -- for example, providing a work related technical device that would enable a person with a disability to do the job."
Technical devices with love equity applications which enable a person with a disability to do the job are already on the market.
Love Equity could create jobs as well. From California, always at the forefront, it seems, in the battle for social justice, we can get an idea of what this might mean in practice. From Reason Magazine Brickbats section (July, 1994):
"The city of Los Angeles has ordered a nude dancing club to take down or modify a shower enclosure where it's ladies perform. The reason: The shower isn't handicapped accessible. If the owners want to keep the shower, they'll have to redesign it so that a woman in a wheelchair can perform in it."
Think of the boom in bedroom renovations.
Finally, to make the new legislation truly progressive the concerns of animal rights activists must be addressed. Question 23 on Togetherness Canada's compatibility form, "are you a leg man or a breast man?" Question 24, "are you allergic to wool?"
Bilingualism
In recognition of the fact that Canada is a nation with two founding peoples Canadians have become accustomed to having French imposed upon them by law. While some might feel that French is really being forced down their throats, French kissing should, nevertheless, be made mandatory.
Prostitution
Certainly all forms of prostitution should be legalized since prostitution has great egalitarian value. Other benefits of legalization would be government regulation, oversight and taxation. Bringing prostitution into the realm of legitimate business would make it easier to prosecute prostitutes who refuse to service members of designated groups under existing human rights statutes.
Or...
The whole prostitution industry could be nationalized. With prostitutes joining the public payroll their services could be distributed for free like other social services. Of course they would want to be represented by the usual public sector unions. An orgy of collective bargaining may well ensue.
Revenue
Unlike other forms of amusement, governments receive almost no revenues from sexual activity.
My estimate of the frequency of intercourse in Canada represents a potentially huge source of revenue for governments at all levels. It is perhaps a little odd that governments have not yet tapped into this activity as a potential source of revenue. At ten bucks a crack, the government could raise 5 million dollars daily from this activity. That's a respectable 1.825 BILLION dollars a year!
A survey of the rates charged in sex markets where vendors prefer to be compensated in cash would give the revenue minister some idea of how high this tax could go before the tax base goes flaccid. The tax might be initially set to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate, ie. it could be set at 7% of the going street rate.
These tax rates could be adjusted to influence birth rates in Keynesian fashion. No more baby booms.
Enforcement
The question of enforcement of government regulations in the romance marketplace must be addressed. Many will consider enforcement to be an impossible task due to the difficulty of detection and the tendency of most participants to avoid complaining.
Detection of a couple falling in love would be extremely difficult as it is often difficult or impossible, even for the individuals concerned, to know when this is happening.
Unlike falling in love, which occurs on some kind of a continuum, lovemaking is usually discrete. Having instituted a licensing regime for all eligible citizens, enforcement would consist largely of routing out and exposing citizens who are engaged in illicit sex... a fun job for some.. no doubt it would add variety to the jobs of those police officers currently assigned to monitoring the comings and goings in public restrooms.
Police enforcement could be augmented by the requirement that licensed individuals fill out annual sex returns. This could be made part of the annual retesting procedure. If everyone were required to complete and file an official form, say a T4-2 specifying date, time and partner, every time they had sex a paper trail would exist which would aid in catching offenders by finding unmatched forms. It would be a serious offense to make a false statement.
The frequency of sheet laundering can be affected by the level of sexual activity. The U.S. has taken measures against the crime of money laundering such as those under the Bank Secrecy Act which require Currency Transaction Reports for transactions involving $10,000 or more. Similar measures might be employed to help zero in on lawbreakers by, for example, requiring that all retailers submit Spray'n Wash Transaction Reports. These measures could be coupled with random spot checks.
The police could then break into homes of unlicensed individuals, suspected of breaking the law, in the same way that those drug warriors do on the TV show COPS. These special officers would have to be equipped with bullet proof vests since it would often be impossible to quickly determine whether the suspect has a gun or is just having a good time.
Sex audits could be combined with tax audits. "So Mr. Smith, according to your cost-of-living statement for last year you purchased a new mattress. Something wrong with the old one was there? Hmmmm?"
Conclusion
For the majority of Canadians, the standard refrain in response to any conceivable problem that exists is 'There ought to be a law.' The notion that legislators, through the use of police, judges and jailers, can achieve all sorts of wonderful things, from housing to job creation to education to curing appendicitis, has been almost completely accepted by the bulk of the population.
Disagreements that exist focus on details rather than upon the basic principle. Moves by the government to ensure fairness in the romantic affairs of the citizenry should be welcomed with little dissent.
We have looked at several social policy areas which would be positively affected by a strict regime of sexual regulation. We have seen that such regulation would carry with it benefits pertaining to family values, health, redistributive justice and anti-discrimination.
We have also seen that cash strapped governments have an excellent source of revenue to tap. For the first time in history the taxpayer won't mind getting screwed.
The time to act is now. Canadians are ready. The current, so called, right wing trend will be quickly reversed when Canadians finally realize just how much they love their socialism. That will be the time to swiftly implement the recommended regime.
The End
The discussion that sparked my decision to revisit this topic.
The Incel Rebellion - Roger Devlin
▶ Watch on YouTube: The Incel Rebellion - Roger Devlin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2ahf8JvJUMore on Sexual Socialism
This topic opens up all kinds of hilarious new dimensions. Monty Python is now completely out of date. None of their comedic absurdities came close to predicting what is going on now.
Male Student Accuses Female Student of Sexual Assault. She Says He Wanted Revenge. - Reason.com
▶ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA6id4--BDg
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