It just sickens me to realize that a great deal of our comfort must, somehow, rest on so many other people's deprivation and even death. If it drove me crazy while in Cuba, here is the more obvious. I mean, I was sharing with someone that there must be as many christmas trees around downtown toronto as there are homeless people in the city (4 thousand, more or less).

And I don't wan to start an argument on whether homeless people should be more or less government supported. I believe no human being should sleep hungry and out in the cold and when it happens the government steps in.

(Same with gun crime. None should live in fear. Just think what it means for children to grow around, say, Jane and Finch)

One only wishes there were more election time frenzies. Makes the govt pass a whole lot of very much needed pieces of legislation!