Can we live our lives 140 characters at a time? Yes, but not very well, suggest the lawyers for former Canadian Forces base commander and convicted sex killer Russell Williams.

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I saw “The Fighter” in Calgary this weekend  (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964517/) and was struck by the impact of real life versus Reality. The movie is based on a true story and everyone involved goes to great lengths to keep it real. Characters may be infuriating one minute and sympathetic the next; there are no dramatic denouements involving roof-top snipers, car chases, Russian mobsters or Muslim extremists. Things go wrong, they go right, they go sideways. People  try, and fail, and disappoint, and are redeemed but it all happens in human scale, not in epic scale.

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You can always count on a wide spectrum of advice to the President when he’s about to give a State of the Union Address.  Keep in mind that President Obama is coming out of a spanking delivered to the Dems by the electorate last November.  And he just gave a phenomenal, personal, non-political speech that restated pure American values in Tuscon last week about the tragedy there (http://tinyurl.com/4edwvek) — which has bumped up his popularity.

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Without expressing any opinions on the candidates for the BC liberal leadership, I do have to raise some teeny red flags over some graphic and sloganeering choices.  Perhaps candidates have more pressing things on their minds than the colour of their website, or the troubling imagery of their logo but at some point someone said, “yeah, that looks good; let’s go with it.” Those people have some ‘splaining to do.

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Talk is cheap. Action costs more, but it gets results. Case in point – Shadow Lines Transportation Group, a Langley-based company that saw a need and decided to do something about it.

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