We haven't killed each other yet -- anyone else amazed?

I was scrolling down the headlines at Yahoo News the other day, when I came across this article about the new season of survivor.

Essentially, next season, the "survivors" will be separated into 4 teams by race: Black, White, Latinos and Asians (thanks for the correction, Morphy). "Segregated" according to the article.

My initial reaction was one of disbelief. The concept just struck me as utterly and completely wrong. In a day and age, where people tend to be overly sensitive about EVERYTHING -- how could the network think this was an acceptable concept?

Neil, on the other hand, didn't seem to understand why there were people protesting (other than the aforementioned -- people are overly sensitive to EVERYTHING) and posed the question -- how is it any different than the Olympics, where you pit country against country, nationality against nationality?

I counter-argued that they were pitting Americans against Americans (people living within the same country) -- but then mid-sentence I thought, why should that matter? The world is a competitive place and we all have different strengths and weaknesses. Don't we all compete daily for jobs,in sports, in life at large??? Are people of different ethnicity's not competing against one another everyday in well -- everything?? Why should this matter?

Why can't there be a positive competitive spirit from this? Why do people always fear the worst? Are we so pre-conditioned to believe the worst that we honestly believe that race relations in 2006 are so bad they can't withstand a reality TV show?

Neil also wanted me to add -- that the creators of Survivor stole this idea from South Park.

As Martha would say, it's a good thing.

Good-bye 25 inch, hello 46 inch.

I stumbled across this today and chuckled.

And here's another dandy...

Last night, Neil and I attended a Breast Cancer Fundraiser Dance that was co-hosted by my cousin. She is walking 60 km in the Weekend to End Breast Cancer fundraiser in Toronto this September 8-10. All the proceeds (100%) go to benefit the Princess Margaret Hospital, Canada’s leading cancer research hospital. If you would like to donate -- please send a donation through my cousin -- all participants must raise a minimum of $2000 to be eligible to walk. It's for a good cause -- almost everyone these days knows of someone that has been affected by cancer. Her name is Katie Graham .

The dance was pretty fun. Neil and I took the opportunity to attempt to start a "Teqwila Train" and even though it didn't catch on with the mostly younger crowd -- we sure enjoyed the ride.

We truly are the definition of 'high class'.