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Toronto, 2015.01.23

Today I saw a driver pull up onto the sidewalk to pass a taxi that had stopped with its blinkers going. The woman driving the thing ignored several (15-20) pedestrians (what were the doing on the sidewalk??) who all just seemed to stop in their tracks as she went about her obviously vital business saving the universe or whatever.

Three reasons to be thankful:

  1. No one was killed

  2. I've written about it, I feel better already

  3. My son's birthday party is this weekend.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009