This is the kind of "logic" that makes me despair

Hoon calls for compulsory voting.

This has to be right up there with "floggings will continue until morale improves".

Obviously this is a better "solution" than, say, an electoral system where every vote counts or on that allows a party to gain a majority of 100 with less than 40% of votes and when, anyway, those elected to prefer to lie about all the important issues rather than listen to what the electorate is saying.

There is a pretty strong correlation between how responsive the electoral system is and turnout. That's why the US and UK have such miserable turn outs.

Great rugby photos

It seems that the very talented José Romelo Lagman took a series of pictures at the Nomads/Scottish game. These are some of the best rugby photos I've seen and his other stuff is interesting too. Click on the sample to see more:

Slightly late silliness

OK so it's a couple of days late for Canada Day