Brigitte Pellerin

1 week ago | brigittepellerin.substack.com | Brigitte Pellerin

It’s a secret of electoral politics that you spend the first half clamouring for “fully-costed platforms” (biggest bullshit expression ever invented) and shaming every party that doesn’t have one, only to devote the remainder of the campaign to not reading and otherwise ignoring said platforms. And you wonder why I’m so cynical.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Brigitte Pellerin

It is generally unwise to ascribe to conspiracy that which can easily be explained by stupidity. I don’t understand why some people think it makes sense to flood a riding with dozens of pretend candidates, other than to try to confuse voters. Which, while short of being nefarious, is profoundly anti-useful. If there’s a sign of intelligent design behind the Rhinoceros-inspired (ask your parents) “Longest Ballot Committee” movement, it thoroughly eludes me.

1 week ago | ottawacitizen.com | Brigitte Pellerin

Advertisement 1The 'Longest Ballot Committee' says its protesting our first-past-the-post voting system, but the means don't match the ends. Article contentIt is generally unwise to ascribe to conspiracy that which can easily be explained by stupidity. I don’t understand why some people think it makes sense to flood a riding with dozens of pretend candidates, other than to try to confuse voters. Which, while short of being nefarious, is profoundly anti-useful.

2 weeks ago | bamaqc.substack.com | Brigitte Pellerin

Below are pictures from two rallies in Huntsville. Below are photos I took last month in the same location. Also? We need to settle on a name. At first I was thinking From Bama with Love but maybe that’s a little too obvious. I thought From Bama with Sarcasm but it doesn’t roll off the tongue. From Bama with Bite: Southern Sass and Sarcasm. I kinda like that one. From Bama with Sass? I’m open to suggestions.

2 weeks ago | randomactsofurbanism.substack.com | Brigitte Pellerin

It’s a thing when I feel stressed or anxious I find comfort in books. Not reading them so much as buying them. Reading when I’m anxious is often frustrating because I’m easily distracted and will typically find myself doomscrolling anyway. But buying books, especially in a used bookstore, has a way of soothing my nerves. The Book of Kells is not something you read or even touch, but something you admire on your way to the long room upstairs, in the Trinity College library in the centre of Dublin.