The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

What is with everyone paddling a red canoe down the river.

I can't imagine I'm the only one who's noticed this.

It starts with Al Gore rowing down the Connecticut River.

Next, there's Tom Hanks paddling in a red canoe telling us all to send money or something to conserve the wetlands.

Thanks, but I'd rather preserve my pocketbook.

And now, in a commercial out there, ITT Technical Institute is 'pushing their wares' by deciding to row downstream in a, what? ya, a red canoe.

Does red + canoe = purity, or innocence, or something?

I don't get it, but it's sure annoying.