Oh Lord, please don't buy me a Mercedes Benz...

I've long had a theory that the most expensive cars are owned by the worst drivers. It is, by no means, a scientific theory. But I suspect that if you stood on a busy street corner for an hour, and made a list of all the high-end cars to go through that intersection and a separate list of the visibly bad drivers to go through the intersection, there'd be more than a minor correlation between the two.

It's a theory that is proven almost every day. For example, on Friday night, as I was walking home from work, I watched as a woman was almost hit by a car. We'd been standing on opposite sides of the street, and both stepped forward as the little white man appeared permitting us the cross the street. But as we stepped forward, a woman in a Porsche drove straight through the crosswalk and turned right on a red without stopping. She never even slowed down and I'm sure has no clue what she did. And then this afternoon, as I went out for an overpriced coffee, I was at the exact same intersection when the exact same thing happened. Only this time, I was the one nearer the car as it drove through the crosswalk, and the car was an Infiniti, not a Porsche. And again, the driver was completely clueless about what had happened. How can a person be smart enough to make enough money to own a Porsche, but not be smart enough to know how to drive? Although, I guess it doesn't require smarts to inherit Daddy's money.

I'm sure this is a coincidence, but I was recently speaking with a radio producer regarding his documentary about psychopaths. It's very interesting. Film and television would have you believe these are the scariest, weirdly interesting people in the world. It turns out, they're pretty boring. They just lack a connection to other people. They lack a conscience and thus commit serious crimes. But the producer was telling me about a new book that says not all psychopaths commit murderous, bloody crimes. The book has a theory that many crimes in the business/corporate world are commited by non-violent psychopaths. Hmmm... Psychopaths and big business, bad driver and expensive cars... It sounds very interesting, at the very least. You can hear more about it on CBC Radio on Sirius on Monday, February 19. It's on Producer's Choice, which follows As it Happens at 6:30 and 10:30 pm ET (pardon the shameless plug.)

And speaking of As it Happens, they've put out a call for your complaints. That shouldn't be too hard to manage for CBC listeners, but the main goal is to use your complaints in a song performed by Canada's first national complaints choir. Here's a sample from the Hamburg Complaints Choir: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMixEXn2SG8. Send your complaints to aih@cbc.ca. My complaint? Why do jerks drive the nice cars?

My happy thought du jour: I bought a pair of tall pants on my way home tonight. If you've read my Interests in the ABOUT ME section, you'll know that finding pants long enough for me is a lifelong quest. I'm 5'10", most pants are made for women shorter than me. So I sit here feeling glee, dreaming of wearing full-length pants tomorrow. No floods Tuesday! Woohoo!