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I’m sure Burns Lake is a nice place.  I don’t think I’ve ever been there, unless it happened when I was very young.  It is a small town of about 2,000 people, several hours from anywhere.  It’s the sort of place a person might go to load up on moose and fish.  It happens to hold the record for the most sunshine in a month by any B.C. town, set in 1982. Anyway, my concern with the town is their lopsided number of lottery wins.  The provincial lottery corporation runs a 50/50 draw that draws four times a day, and often smaller towns like Powell River and Kamloops (which is not exactly tiny at 75,000) win more than their share, but statistically the king is Burns Lake.

 

 

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To win a dollar on the 50/50, theoretically you must spend two dollars.  So either the 2,000 people have spent $300,000 on it in the last year and a half, or they are experiencing an elongated period of luck.  My guess would be that most of the winning has been done by a small number of people who faithfully spend a large sum every day.  Even if a person was spending $100 each morning on his way to work and was winning a small number of draws, it may be paying off.  That person would be coming out ahead even if he only won once every two weeks.  In June the town averaged almost $700 in winnings each day, including days they didn’t win any draws.

I was tempted to phone a gas station or two from Burns Lake before I wrote this, see if they have any locals spending wildly or if it’s a fad in town that lots of people participate in, but I decided not to.  I think I’m worried I will mess up their winning streak by snooping around.

 

“The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.”

• Shakespeare, As You Like It

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect is the inability of low intelligence people to correctly assess their skill at certain tasks.  The effect was experimentally ‘proven’ in 1999, and the authors of the prevailing study were awarded an IgNoble Prize for their work, sort of a mock Nobel prize for minor accomplishments.  The idea is that people who aren’t especially bright often think they are wonderful at everything they do, while highly intelligent people tend to believe themselves to be only average, as though the difficult things they excel at are easy for everyone.  It turns out that the lack of general intelligence also makes people very poor at assessing their own level of competence.  I think we can all think of examples of a dimwit who is full of unearned confidence and a smart person who is full of excessive doubt.

One hopes that along the way the highly confident but not very bright person gets a reality check and realizes their shortcomings.  For example, if a person of unreasonable confidence had a string of bankruptcies and failed marriages, it might dawn on them that they are not great with people or money.  You would hope.  If that person, for example, spouted off a daily stream of public rants that were laughable in their simple ingorance of the truth, you would hope that the people who critiqued those rants would get through the thick head of the ranter who would, you would hope, either do a little reading or shut up.  You would hope a person that dumb would not become a public figure, and really hope that if they did something stupid like run for president, millions of people wouldn’t fall for his or her empty ramblings.  No, in the case of Donald Trump, his Dunning-Kruger filter on the world remains firmly in place.  The daily reality checks bounce off his cheezie-coloured noggin like a bullet off a superhero.

If it were just for comedy, Trump would be a great gag.  Unfortunately, he is racist, mysoginistic, mean spirited, devoid of any sense of the modern world and a bullying, cheating douchebag.  And immensely popular.  He’s an orange, wind-tussled Archie Bunker who wants to default on America’s debts and let more jobs go to third world countries.  Really?  That gets you whose vote, exactly?  Not to mention the ridiculous wall.  Not only would that idiotic wall cost a fortune – they could probably find the money if they plunder the education budget, who needs that? – but it would be a symbol of intolerance and not much more.  Let’s hope no Mexicans own a plane, a boat, a shovel, a sledgehammer or a ladder.  And doesn’t it seem a tad inconsistent that those raping, thieving Mexicans are working in his hotels?

To be fair, I’m not completely sold on what the Democrats are cooking up either.  In fact it’s been quite a while since I saw a candidate on either side of the 49th parallel that I had total faith in.  My favourite of the 2016 batch in the US is Bernie Sanders, but he doesn’t appear to have a chance.  Besides, he is so out there he’s like a guy hoping to turn the US into Denmark.  I worry if he overcomes the odds and wins the nomination that someone might kill him.  He’s pretty old, a really strong glass of prune juice might do the trick, but let me say it now: I’m not cleaning that up.

I was just doing some light reading after work, and I came across this puzzling article on Msn.ca taken from the Independant.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/woman-vows-to-take-gun-into-target-discount-store-bathrooms-to-protect-herself-from-transgender-people/ar-BBsjaUy?li=AAggv0m

The gist, if you have decided to skip reading the whole thing, is that a woman in the US, Anita Staver, is planning to take a .45 calibre Glock with her into the bathroom at a Target store so she can protect herself (and others) from the wave of perverts who are going to enter the ladies washroom as transgenders.  She figures perverted men are going to start raping women in the store washrooms, which would seem like a pretty risky undertaking, even without armed vigilantes laying in ambush.  Maybe she should stake out frat parties and hiking trails?

Anyway, my first reaction was that this person may have some unused brain cells loafing around her skull.  Turns out she’s a lawyer, so she was at least clever enough to pass a bar exam.  Then came the answer: she’s a Christian lawyer!  She will be cocked and loaded to protect all that is clean and good in God’s favourite country.

As a good Christian, she has probably skimmed by problematic phrases like “thou shalt not kill,” “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” “love thy enemy,” “don’t judge lest ye be judged” and “turn the other cheek,”  but she has decided to ignore those and interpret things her way.  Those aren’t central tenets of the faith or anything, just suggestions from the Appendix chapters.  And in case anyone read those lines and took it to mean Christianity was intended to be peaceful, we have Ms Staver to thank for setting us straight about that.
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I had a lot of Christian dogma come my way in my 12 years of Catholic schooling, but I can’t remember anything about using lethal force to exterminate people you think might be pissing off Jesus.  (Oh, even though you also believe he created them in His image and loves them.  Huh?)  I must have nodded off when that went by.

So here’s your warning, dirty perverts: if you start raping women in a busy washroom, in a busy store full of witnesses and cameras, using the crazy premise that you are transgender, Anita Staver and Jesus may be hunkering down in the next stall deciding who gets to scatter your filthy brains on the wall.  In self defense no less!

Amen.

 

Well I’m finally feeling better.  It was like rehab: once the coughing subsided, I slept for a week or so, interrupted once in a while to go to work, and I haven’t had a beer in two weeks which has forced me into losing about 10 pounds.  My stomach has been doing weird things, though.  Yesterday I was out in the back yard and I farted so loudly the neighbour’s dog started barking.  Maybe these sorts of things should be kept to one’s self.  Naw, I’m too old to start charm school now.

I see stock in Molson Coors  is down 92 points today, so I’m going to have to do my part this weekend and help them out.  They miss me, even if they never call.

I’m watching the L.A. Kings vs the San Jose Sharks playoff game 4.  The Sharks have their traditional big lead but are diddling around and watching it erode, like usual.  I can’t cheer for the Kings.  Milan Lucic is a lower primate and a terrible sportsman.  He cries if you hit him, but he calls you a baby when he hits you.  He once made a death threat in the post game handshake. God I hope no team I like signs him this summer.  Their coach Darryl Sutter can barely speak, and he looks like what you would breed if you let a buzzard screw a potato.  Holy cow, spoiler alert!, the Sharks hung on to win.  That should help you clear up a little room on your PVR.  You’re welcome.

 

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Canada should have free education for its citizens.  It seems like a very expensive idea, but it actually isn’t that crazy.

Ontario is the easiest place to use as an example.  It has a median family income of $76,510 per year which is almost exactly the average Canadian family income of $76,550.  Also the average university graduate in Canada earns $144 for every $100 earned by a high school grad, and the rate in Ontario is almost exactly average at $144.20.  It also has a very average income tax rate, and of course, the most people by a wide margin.  The numbers I use come from these earnings and reflect taxes paid federally and to the province of Ontario.

The fact that the university grad earns much more money also translates into that grad paying a lot more income tax.  Starting at age 22, after completing a hypothetical four year degree, the grad will be many thousands of tax dollars behind the hypothetical high school grad who began paying tax at age 18.  However, the degree holder will pass the high school grad in lifetime taxes paid when they reach age 29, and if they both continue to work until age 65, the university grad will pay an extra $365,940 in taxes.  Not bad for the $60,591 the average four year degree costs in tuition.  The government comes out $305,000 ahead on the deal.  The rate of return is about six tax dollars taken in for every dollar spent on tuition.  If an extra 1/6 of high school grads attended university because of the free tuition, the program would make the government money.

Of  course, many people are willing to go badly in debt to get an education, but there is a strong correlation between education levels and the cost of tuition.  This suggests that there are people not pursuing higher education because of the cost.  As an example, the cheapest tuition in Canada is in Quebec, which also has the highest rate of post-secondary attendance.  In Quebec, some college courses can be taken for free.  Certainly more people would choose university if it were free.  There might have to be some rules, such as it might only be free until you reach the age of 20, after which you must kick in 10% of the cost per year.  Obviously, it would not be cost effective to open free education to anyone nearing retirement age.  They also may want to limit free tuition to four years.
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The government would also gain in other ways.  The university grad would be much less likely to be unemployed during his or her working life.  Also, degree holders tend to save more for retirement meaning they are less of a burden on the national pension.  They also tend to live healthier lives, so the government spends less on their well-being throughout their lives.  This is not to mention the fact that the $60,000 they would have had to repay for their student loan now is spent in the economy.

There are other non-financial benefits to society.  Degree holders are also less likely to smoke, less likely to be involved in crime, more likely to volunteer, give blood and vote.  They are more likely to read to their children which raises them with higher cognitive skill.  The list goes on and on.