Jon Disses the Recyclers

Jon, my virtual landlord, has an amusing post up about his recent dealings with the recycling commissars:

This whole Blue Box and recycling thing is a crock. I am convinced that it has nothing to do with recycling and is instead an experiment in behaviour modification. The various levels of government want to see just how compliant we can be made to become. My guess is that they are hoping that, when the time comes, we will willingly walk to the camps just on being told that it's good for the environment – that way they won't have to provide transportation.

Especially pay attention to how he's taken to packaging his recyclable cardboard boxes. I don't think I'd have the stones to do that!

And while you're at Blogulaciousness, don't miss this post about the economics of hydro in Ontario. Good reading.

While I'm busy pointing to good posts on Jon's blog, I should mention that I had this idea to riff on an older posting of his ("Every time you use Highway 407, a terrorist gets appeased"). What I was going to do was to use the Treo camera, take a photo of a new sign that appeared recently on the 407 and edit the wording to say something deeply profound, like "Durka durka Mohammed Jihad!" (obligatory Team America reference). Unfortunately, the plan derailed because I'm a moron. I took the photo yesterday, while driving past the sign, and then forgot to save the image, and turned off the camera. Doh!