It always warms my heart a little when separate spheres of my life bump into each other. And my webcomic-reading, cartoon-drawing sphere just nudged my public-speaking sphere in the latest installment of John Allison’s webcomic Bad Machinery.
Last week, I tweeted this:
In moving ceremony, Lieutenant Governor formally adds “Embattled” to Christy Clark’s title of “Premier”. #bcpoli
— Rob Cottingham (@RobCottingham) March 2, 2013
Today, I give you the second sentence of this Gary Mason interview:
One idea that keeps popping up in the gun debate is that you have a different relationship with guns if you’ve ever actually used one. And that’s true in my case: I became familiar with guns, and they don’t hold much sense of mystique.
The damage they can do, though — that still preys on me.
I’m always ambivalent about using legislation to change behaviour. You have to be smart about it; blanket bans can wind up backfiring. (Memo to self: confirm there’s no legislation banning blankets.)
But my immediate reaction to the proposal in Ontario to ban marketing junk food to kids is pretty unambiguous: go for it.
It’s grim, people.
Premier Christy Clark, speaking to a Christian audience earlier this month:
“I really do think the tragedy of our society is actually not there are so many atheists — because atheists often express themselves as generously as non-atheists — it’s the fact people don’t go to a place of worship every week and get reminded anymore of how important it is that we care.”
You know, maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea.
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