Travel in the City of Angels/Chocolate Lucky Charms

Los Angeles had the pleasure of hearing Enrique Peñalosa speak this month, just as I did this past summer in Montreal.

"To make more highways or bigger roads to solve traffic jams is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline."

I miss walking to work. Though many hearty Manitobans cycle and walk all the way through the winter season, I haven't been able to hack it and have bussing the 15 minutes to work instead of walking the 55 like I did in July and August. I'm looking forward to spring.

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As a self-admitted white sugar junkie, a Grist article got me thinking:

"A product [sugar] that originally depended on slave labor became a key component in fueling the Industrial Revolution. Simultaneously, [Sweetness and Power author and anthropologist Sidney] Mintz reports, cheap sugar was taking hold in the rapidly industrializing United States (where the bitter tropical beverage of choice was coffee, not tea). Today, of course, the U.S. sweet tooth thrives, though now it's satisfied more by government-supported high-fructose corn syrup than by cane-derived sugar" (links same as the original article).

So your bowls of Chocolate Lucky Charms are basically soma. Mmm, tasty.