Waaaagh!

Montreal
Saturdays in a walking city... wandering the streets filled with families out en masse - profoundly ethnically and culturally mixed families (montreal is fairly special that way)... everyone wrapped up in colorful winterwear. I love being surrounded by people when i'm alone - everyone is running around with some intent... a goal... but they all look lost at some fundamental level - and that always makes me grin.

Snatches of conversations... a PETA christmas display - pictures of carcases and a blaring audio tape of an animal being tortured. I saw one 5 yr old boy crying - terror on his face - after seeing it... heard another blocks later asking his father 'they use lipstick on animals? lipstick comes from animals? is lipstick made from blood?' PETA crossed the line here... There's no reason to expose a 5 yr old to that... there has to be a better way...

Then there's the new Sea Shepherd boat - an ex USCG ship that the Shepherds plan to sail into international waters and enforce the UN charter re whaling (by ramming Japanese 'research' vessels). Oh sure, there's an argument to be made that they're being terrorists etc... but i'm not buying. IMO - this is the only way this battle can be fought... Sink em all captain... fair winds...