And here we see the actual problem - Danielle isn't the crazy lady holding the party hostage (like Kenny's comment about the "inmates running the asylum" suggested), the whole party has gone off the deep end.

I don't see how this has any chance of being fixed, unless the UCP suffers multiple crushing electoral defeats over the next decade or so.

I recently mused that it has got to be hard for the Onion to come up with something these days given how reality keeps catching up to satire, but this headline proves it's not just hard, it's downright impossible to satirize Trump.

It honestly reads like the author dismisses the potential of foreign influence affecting both domestic actors and politics outright without proof. There's ample evidence that Russian state-affiliated actors have worked with social media influencers to foment outrage, for example. That's not a "new red scare", that's straight up proof of intelligence operations designed to undermine Russia's geopolitical opponents.

Remember how we used to think people should retire in old age, instead of running a country? Pepperidge farm remembers.

The horror is in the fact that the system forces these kinds of choices on people. Any system that forces people to consider suicide to avoid bankrupting their loved ones due to medical cost is barbaric.

I'm absolutely worried this will get taken advantage of in the US' hellscape that is their healthcare system, but that doesn't mean the concept is without merit.

It's like arguing that cars should not be available for purchase because someone might use one irresponsibly, while forgetting their utility outside of abuse.

In a healthcare system that optimizes outcome instead of profit, having the option to allow someone to choose to end their suffering should not be considered a bad thing.

That's both debatable on a semantic level (is it really suicide if it's assisted?) and not how I intended the use of the term.

What I tried to say is that this option is less traumatic than non-assisted options for ending your existence and comes with less risk of injury to bystanders to boot.

That's such a great depiction of Alberta's politics it's both funny and tragic at the same time. Alberta (and SK for that matter) could be leading the nation in non-hydro renewables if they let the market decide, but for some reason the O&G industry needs to continue to be propped up. If only they could see the opportunity staring them in the face.

I guess this is one of those times where being old and having played the first two installments of the series mentioned, because that was what was out at the time, makes you look cool. Right guys?

Okay, let's for the sake of your argument exclude organized criminally activity.

The fact that "bar fights escalate into gun fights" is fucking terrifying in its own right. And how on God's green earth isn't it absolutely insane that a "party that got out of hand" turns into gun violence?

In most civilized societies I'm not say risk of becoming a gun violence statistic for going to a party or an establishment that sells alcohol. The fact that this gets so casually ignored as "not a mass shooting, even though it involved multiple people getting shot" is part of the problem.

Well, to be fair to Access, it's not like Excel is such a great multi-user database either, now is it? ;-)

Thanks. Apparently I forgot about Winnipeg in the fifties. That said, I can't see if that was a city-wide evacuation like this one.