Finally, after several years of pussyfooting, I've decided to begin a blog. For me, that means putting down observations on paper that serve two purposes: Venting information. Those are the two purposes, so don't go looking any further.
I live in Geneva. I am a sort of American, having spent most of my life in Europe. So, yes, unabashedly Eurotrashy. If you have that kind of attitude, you are reading the world the wrong way. There are no neat categories. We're all becoming quite mixed. Sort of melting together in one large ragout of single and identifiable corporate identity. It's in the clothes we wear and the rubbish we eat, drink and smoke. It's even in the music we listen to. It's in the cars we buy to contribute our fair share to suffocating the planet.
Yesterday on the BBC Website, the Have Your Say section had a question about Barack Obama. The responses were very revealing. One fellow from Texas (allegedly, you know, like the prezdint who likes to think he is from Texas, and likes to spread the Texas drawl) mused about how his class gets on, Spaniards with Basques, etc... And then gratuuitously points out that there were never any Neanderthalers in the USA.... Well, he hasn't been to Nebraska, and apparently he has not watched any national news for a while, the Neanderthalers are sitting in the Whitehouse these days.
He missed the point. Kids do get along together. It's those stupid adults who do not. Especially the Chromosome Y, I might add....
I have to run. This is an experience.
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