journal features
movie reviews
photo of the day

petitions, yes

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Vancouver, 2002.06.18

I signed a political petition today. To adopt a 'mixed' representational electoral process here in B.C. I understand it's an initiative of one of the left-wing parties, and I doubt it'll ever pass, but something has to make more sense than this farcicle system we have now (under which, for instance, 56% of the population voted for the party that wound up winning, and they got 90% or more of the seats...

rand()m quote

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

—Bertrand Russell