Ah, America.

[pyat]

Currently occupying two foreign nations, dealing with ongoing violence in both, with a worrisome economy, a major port city still crippled by natural disaster, more than 1 in 100 adults currently in prison, tax rolls supporting a defense budget larger than that all the other nations of the world combined, spending more per capita of state money on healthcare than any other nation yet no socialized healthcare and a declining life expectancy, serious questions about the conduct of the military and CIA, the perpetrator of 9/11 basically forgotten, and there's an election in a few months.

And of course, the most important topics in that election are gay marriage and abortion.

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[redeem147.livejournal.com]

My daughter had a dispute with her landlord which went to court, and the judge pretty much kicked the landlord in the ass. Helped that my daughter was in the right of course, and that the landlord was clueless. In Toronto.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Well, every other experience I've heard (and had) runs to the contrary, to the point where it was a running joke among my friends that the "Tenant Protection Act" meant "protecting the landlords from their tenants." At least that much has changed since we last rented (2002) -- more info here (http://www.ontariotenants.ca/research/tenant-protection-act.phtml).