Only in Christchurch

You know how some cities have people who stand in public spaces and preach about God, and how we're all going to go to Hell if we don't accept Jesus?

As I was threading my way through the clumps of Emo kids when grabbing my lunch today, I heard someone yelling orating in the mall. About God? No, about CO₂ emissions and the problems that cars cause for the environment. According to the people who I shared a lift with, he was ranting the other day about marijuana legalisation.

The other day, I passed through Cathedral Square to find the Wizard of Christchurch (who I'd thought had retired - perhaps that was only in his official capacity) talking about being a counter-revolutionary, how people have been losing more and more leisure time since the agricultural revolution and how the problem wasn't men with an Oedipus Complex, but women with a Jocasta Complex (i.e. they hate their husbands and want toy-boys who're easy to manipulate).

Sometimes I think our city is somewhat ironically named :-)