Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City is kind of creepy. The city itself is pretty run down, dirty and tired. The large streets and empty holes on street fronts makes it slightly disconcerting to walk around. I tried to have breakfast this morning in a nearby McDonald’s. It was damned near impossible to get in the door and hold your gorge past the stench of the homeless settled inside. And eating was kind of hard to do when one dude in the corner kept smacking his head against the table and proclaiming “Happy Birthday!” every thirty seconds or so.
And then, Temple Square. Whee! Try to take a tour and have a look around without being prosletyized to? Fuggedaboutit. I did always like the half-hitches in the Mormon soliloquies when I said I was a Roman Catholic. That’s always good for a laugh.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. — H.L. Mencken
It’s been said that the United States always gets the President we deserve. Well folks, we’ve got a doozy this time. On the bright side I’m pretty sure the sun will still come up tomorrow. Aside from that, I haven’t got much to hope for. Hell, after six months or so of our new President and new Congress I won’t even be able to afford the booze to drown my sorrows.
Oh well, 220 years of truth, justice and the American Way was a pretty good run. Guess we’ll find out what lies, thievery and the European Way looks like for a little while.