From my vantage point, high up the side of Box mountain and overlooking the magnificent Arrow Lakes and Monashee mountain range, I have come to appreciate the incredible sense of humour of the Creator for, when she created Man, she was only joking. And as Buckminster Fuller once said, "I was never a radical in my youth for fear I would become a Conservative in my old age." Among all the lunacy of this world, I find conservatives the most ridiculous in their belligerence and self absorption. As Tom Robbins wrote in his magnificent book, Jitterbug Perfume, "Lighten up, eh!"