I confess… I have a gravatar now so I just wanted to see how this would work. Here’s me digging for something to write about off the cuff…

 Well, more shootings here again today.

  I’m not sure if we need a guy randomly hugging everyone in the city like in that Dave Mathews video or if the cure is some guy like Charles Bronson lurking in the shadows taking out the thugs.

I doubt seriously either would help and I’m willing (at face value anyway) to put more stock into the new “zero tolerance” policy the city cops are using. However, you gotta watch it with things like that. Civil Liberties start to get tred on a bit and… well it’s just a slippery slope is all I’m getting at.

Anyone else think Zero Tolerance is the stupidest name ever? What, did we tolerate crime before? Eh, he just robbed somebody… the guy’s probably got some drugs to buy and he needed the money.

The sad thing is, even with all this it still doesn’t seem to be curbing the violence.

(Armed forces patrolling the streets under strict rules and arresting anyone who looks suspicious isn’t stopping the violence? Sound a little like any other place you know that rhymes with IRAQ?)

The constant shootings made me think back to watching “Bowling for Columbine,” which I’ll have to see about renting or buying or whatever. Micheal Moore has these comparisons to Canada that made it sound like paradise to me. (below is a page with some statistics)

I heard some more talk from a few lefties about people moving up north if the 2008 elections don’t swing in a favorable result.

First of all, I had a great time the last time I was in Toronto. They have a better vibe for music there. People have a different kind of appreciation of art there - more European. Everyone seemed easier going too. Lots of different people all mixing it up together as well… not so divided like us.

Next, I’m a fan of Hockey. I’m pissed that with all the Football it’s nearly impossible to catch a Hockey game. I usually hate sports but there’s something about Hockey that I dig.

I love Neil Young, Hayden, The Band, and I’m sure numerous other Canadian musicians that did the Americana sound better then Americans.

I’ve got a fondness for trains, flannel, maple syrup, pine trees & forests & lakes and all that untouched wilderness stuff…

Needless to mention free universal health-care! How about a relaxed attitude towards marijuana? (Now if I could just convince the wife to relax a bit about it too…)

All in all, I bet I could get along just fine in Canada.

… that is, as long as nobody tried to rape me. (See statistics or that’s going to sound odd.)