E8: I Love Memories That Love Me (Because I Love Myself), S13: And When I Don't Love Myself...

<p>If you&#39;re reading this <strong>before</strong> you listen to the episode, then you&#39;re definitely a keener.</p><p>Congratulations.</p><p>Or I&#39;m sorry.</p><p>Either way, here&#39;s what you need to know so you can keep a few things in context, because there are some things said in the episode that are somewhat true, but not entirely clear. And keeners notice those things. Then sometimes they make a huff.</p><p>And if you&#39;ve already listened and you&#39;re here because you thought, <em>Wait. Some of that doesn&#39;t sound quite right,</em> then hello again. This is also for you.</p><p>First: when I talk about <strong>evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence</strong>, I&#39;m mostly talking about counselling, social services, community work, and other situations involving human beings who inconveniently refuse to behave exactly like the people in the study.</p><p>I am <strong>not</strong> talking about a compound fracture.</p><p>If your bone is sticking out of your leg, I would prefer the doctor not say, “Let&#39;s hold the evidence lightly and see what emerges.”</p><p>There are procedures.</p><p>Please use them.</p><p>Second: the U.S. Supreme Court case floating around in my memory is <strong>City of Grants Pass v. Johnson (2024)</strong>. The Court did not make sleeping under a bridge illegal throughout the United States. What it did was rule that generally applicable public-camping laws are not, simply by being enforced against homeless people, unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. That gives state and local governments considerably more room to make and enforce those laws. (<a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf?os=ioxa42gdub5u1enqic">supremecourt.gov</a>)</p><p>Third: the British Columbia case I am remembering is <strong>Abbotsford (City) v. Shantz (2015)</strong>. Barry Shantz was a friend of mine. He&#39;s dead, and I&#39;m still working up to telling you about him, apparently.</p><p>The actual order was narrower than what it will likely seem the version is that comes strolling out of my mouth. It protected overnight sleeping and temporary shelter in city parks, from <strong>7 p.m. to 9 a.m.</strong> It did not order governments to provide toilets, garbage service, washing facilities, or all the other things that would make sleeping in a park remotely workable. The judge did, however, strongly discuss the need for things like proximity to services, somewhere to eat and wash, hygiene, warmth, rest, and shelter. He also left governments room to regulate which parks could be used. So there is an important difference between what the court <strong>required</strong> and what the judgment strongly suggested a minimally humane system would need. (<a href="https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Chief-Justice-Hinkson-re-Abbotsford-City-v-Shantz-10-21.pdf">bccla.org</a>)</p><p>There.</p><p>The keeners have been serviced.</p><p>As for the rest of you, I don&#39;t know why you would even be reading this.</p><p>Do I really give a shit about keeners?</p><p>Or non-keeners?</p><p>I mean, clearly <strong>I&#39;m</strong> a keener.</p><p>Aren&#39;t I?</p><p>That&#39;s what my memory tells me.</p><p>And my memory loves me.</p>