Pollution

It was a "road" day today, as it will be tomorrow, and it's been one of "those" weeks for the past two or three now. So, of interest was the claim on the back of a van advertising a local cleaning service. The service claimed it was capable of "cleaning the fabric of life". Obligatory plug. I had to giggle in the car. Although interestingly that claim doesn't seem to have made it to the website.

What a claim! A company that can clean the actual fabric of life. This one? Or this one? Or maybe this one?

Does this mean no more going to confession (for those Catholics among us)? No more going to the doctor? No further need for written codes of ethics, criminal codes or Kyoto accords? Just the all-in-one cleaning service.

Unfortunately, as someone working in the "social service industry", my experience would tell me that no matter how hard we try, human action and interaction, to say nothing of human inaction, tends to fall far short of the standard of perfection. Witness the previous post on the legal fall-out of the Toronto propane explosion. Witness the multi-faceted fallout of the Beijing Olympics . Witness the new mandate of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

Maybe it's the multiplicity of catdom shedding into my keyboard, or just a bad couple of weeks, but I'm thinking that the best we can do is to learn to live gracefully with the stains in the "fabric of life". Save the bleach, pass the tie-dye. Sorry for the bummer post!