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San Francisco, 2015.04.21

The conference officially kicked off today, so naturally the first event was so over the top that it defied belief. I was sitting next to Emily, a native to San Francisco. As we watched the actress Jane Lynch lead a "cyber" version of David Bowie's "Changes", Emily and I gritted our teeth and made witty comments. I jokingly told her that this was the sort of spectacle that Canadians expect when in these Excited States of America.

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Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke