White, Wild, and Williams

In the spirit of the abstract artsy-inspired imagist poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams, I shall keep this post short.

I could pose the question, "What is terrorism?" like a professor earlier today and receive millions of responses.

I could pose the same question to a student and develop a lively conversation about the robotic wheelbarrow bomb diffuser, American paranoia in more than the exploding turkey bomb context and hegemony even if Michele Bachmann quits, the impact of Jihad vs. McWorld, Eurozone globalization, and frivolous Stella Liebeck lawsuit stemming from spilled coffee at McDonald's.

Nevertheless, I don't believe the world has changed for the worse in the past 25 years, as there have been exemplary citizens such as Rick Hansen who have contributed to the benevolent advancement of medical research.

Hansen was honoured tonight at the Canucks game and the Canucks delivered a solid game for him against a moribund Minnesota Wild roster.

While I will be out of town for the next few days and will likely not update this blog, the Boston Bruins are the exact opposite, which should create for an entertaining match on Saturday morning.

Whatever the result may be, I hope Vancouverites will not drag out their rainwater-glazed wheelbarrow formerly beside their legal chicken coops and descend into behaviour that is, as Jonathan White defines in his continuum of conflict hierarchy, one notch below terrorism.