From Athabasca to Victoria

What a drastic change from a small rural town in Northern Alberta to the island city of Victoria. I have only spent four days in Victoria but already I feel liberated and grounded about political ideologies, lifestyles, and people. There is nothing conservative about this town that I have found. I find it a place that embraces lesbians, the arts, the granola, and eviromental beauty. I may need to consider a five year plan to move myself out here and leave the conservative, red neck, neighborhood that I have grown up to know.

Sexual Tension in Cambodia

If you are interested in hearing about a new trend in global tourism (The Sex Trade), look at Piece by Piece. This is the blog of Lee Robinson, the director of HumansBeing.ca, who works in Cambodia and offers some insight on the relationship between men and women in Cambodia.

'Baby on Board' Stickers

I have noticed, as I am sure many have, the SUVs that roams through rural streets and, in particular, those SUVs with the yellow caution sticker that reads, "Baby On Board". So, the driver of this vehicle wasted $2 on some lame sticker that says what, I am more important than you, so be gentle? As if to say that an accident about to happen could, of course, be adverted beacuse of 'the sticker'. It is a redioulous tactic.

There is no point so here is the kicker. The SUVs who have the sticker and coming complete with the driver yapping on the cell phone, argueing with the other precious child. Do you not see the irony? Mid-crisis men in mini-vans, martha-stuart moms driving the leathered SUV, and the cell-phone-yappy, yet concerned parent driving through stop signs and other distracting intersecitons.

It is always a chukkle to see chukkle-head thinking.