WTF

Reading the Toronto Star today I found an intersting story buried on A18. Queens Park has passed legislation to ban smoking in DAYCARES! Why hadn't that happened already? I find this shocking for two reasons, first because this legislation was initially voted down. What the Fuck? Did the government think that it would be a good idea to allow people to smoke in a place where children are? This seemingly logical legislation won't be fully imposed until May 31, 2006. The other reason I find this so unbelievable is that the Ontario government banned smoking in BARS first. Bars, a place where grown-ups are. How on earth did any politician or anti-smoking lobbyist of any kind think in the list of smoke-free priorities bars and restaurants were placed above daycare? Did the politicians think, like I did, that daycares were already supposed to be smoke free? Or were they not thinking at all? For me, having smoking in a day care is the same thing is having smoking in an elementary school. It's just plain stupid. I might be ranting a bit here but really, people had a choice whether or not to go to a bar where there was smoking. Children are put into daycare and they don't have a choice whether or not the person caring for them is smoking. Haven't governments been spending years trying to stop cigarette companies to stop marketing to children? Why then, haven't they been making it illegal for daycare workers to smoke in daycares? All educated people know that children learn by example and if we don't want to create future smokers or have children with lung problems due to second hand smoke this legislation should have happened years ago. I would love to find the idiot in government who said "let's get smoke out of bars and then we'll look at daycares," so I can kick him/her in the head. (This rant courtesy of a smoker)

The Beatles, Useful in everyday life...
After I finished being filled with rage over the above topic I had a pleasant discovery. Vinay Menon's TV column was written to the tune of I am the Walrus. It's a TV column so nothing ground breaking but it was pretty much exactly to the tune. It's effect was probably lost on anyone not familiar with I am the Walrus but for me, it was a grand ol' time. The only problem is that now I want to listen to I am the Walrus and my copy of Sgt. Pepper is on vinyl at my mom's house - Damnit!