It seems traffic cameras are a drag everywhere in Russia when you've speeded or run a red light you get a letter of happiness in the mail reminding you you've sinned I don't know what they are called here but $365 is quite a toll and must surely evoke more than happiness for those who are used to making those signature California rolling stops and never got used to being ticketed or towed there must be some enjoying the cameras and the chance to change other people's behaviour but I haven't met them not even one perhaps I will one day but in the meantime puzzle over the the psychology of elastic band snaps and salivating dogs and the great battery of stimulus and response to which we are treated in the course of a walk or a jaunt somewhere Kant whether you can go there or even if you can't is slumbering not yet stirred or wakened from the terrors of men who are laws unto themselves I wonder about the race of devils ...