It's late

Its been 6 months in a third world country. I was starting to think to myself why is this place still in third world status? I took a look around and make a few simple observations, and compared to my cushy life in Canada, and realized why.

Paving the road.
India - When the road is broke, fix it. The asphalt was destroyed by the rains and millions of tires constantly rolling over. So finally today a large piece of what I call the mine field was re-paved.

They have the big paving machine and they have asphalt, so they paved two nice rows down the middle. The edges of the road were left alone, between one and three meters of road are still the same as before and whatever was underneath was simply paved over.

Simple.

Why bother scraping the broken road?
Why bother paving all the way to the edge?

I guess that is makes up a third world country.

Titles

I was recently thinking about the US election that is going to indefinitely have a female candidate. I actually think there will be two female candidates; one Mrs. Clinton and one Dr. Rice.

All of this went back to a picture I was lucky enough to look at with Mr. George Bush, President accompanied by the First Lady.

What to do if we see Mrs. Hillary Clinton, President standing beside Bill? Will he be labeled the First Man? Will we still call him the First Lady? Maybe the First Lady Killer?

I could use a little insight on this one.


Dave