More in the news…
As a driver, I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve missed some changed in the laws concerning stop signs. “Stopping” at a stop sign seems to be more of an idea than something that people practice, and yesterday, I saw a guy approach a stop sign on Eastwood, honk quickly as he got near it, and drive straight through. I mean, I realize he was honking to warn other motorists that he wasn’t going to stop, but really? Really? It’s a social phenomenon that I’m really just not understanding as much as I’d like to. The etiquette of driving has always been something that I’ve been interested in – the unspoken rules, like on Mortimer, it’s really a lane and a half, but you can’t pass, unless it’s a bus pulled over, and if in a line of five cars at a stop light, the third is making a left, you can pull around them, but only to that third car – to drive past them is just bad form, because then you’re racing the first car in the line through a very short intersection. I love it.
This is also part and parcel with me wondering if people are just really getting stupider. Or more stupid. Or less intelligent.
I remember a few years back in Toronto, we had a bunch of kids who had managed to get their hands on semi-automatic weapons and filmed themselves flashing them in their apartment and being cooler than all that and a bag of chips. Yeah, pretty much the police figured out who it was. <a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=7241188″>Now this just happened in Maine</a> – a bunch of kids film themselves and run <i>credits</i> at the end of it. Well done. Your internet fame has bought you some jail time, and your video has been pulled, which I’m pretty sure, isn’t what you wanted.
What I thought was interesting, though, was an ad that ran beside this article, a program on ABC called <i><a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=7266934&page=1″>If I Only Had a Gun</a></i>, which I’m pretty sure is a book that we saw in a catalogue, cut out, and have pasted in our bathroom at work as one of those “omg, this is such a bad idea” books. I mean, if I had one, I’d just shoot at other motorists, or people who drive through stop signs, because that pisses me right the fuck off. We live in a society, there are rules; when you fly in the face of those rules, don’t expect them to protect you.
Anyhow – in much happier news, <a href=”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5118283/Bacon-sandwich-really-does-cure-a-hangover.html”>bacon sandwiches are really a good idea after a night of drinking</a>. If we’re getting stupider, at least we won’t be hung over 
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