Andy's Mind

I stumbled today across this piece in Newsweek about the rise of movement to legalize polygamy in the US. Of course, it’s very American that every group of likely-minded Americans gets immediately organized, hires lobbyists and has a web site, magazine and weekly meetings throughout the country. What is new is that now all kind of twisted and hurt minds organize to advocate their afflictions as lifestyle choices under the mighty banner of “civil rights”. The article points out that making gay “marriage” legal would open the door to make polygamy legal – and this is indeed only logical. I’ve been long telling everybody that gay activists discriminate against polygamists because if we scrap the old definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman then why limit it to just two humans? In fact, why limit it only to humans? So, the next logical step would be for zoophiles to organize and fight for their civil rights. To paraphrase the Newsweek article – if Heather can have two mommies or two mommies and a daddy why not two daddies and their beloved goat?

There is something worth looking at here – women. And I mean not only at the fair itself (sometimes it was hard to concentrate on the equipment shown), but also on the streets of Hanover. It’s still something you can see more frequently in Germany than any other country I do know – beautiful, classy and shapely longhaired blondes. Years of racial mixing in Europe didn’t change some general differences between the countries – and thank goodness for that. The only problem is that, of course, they mostly speak German. Funny that with this supply of beauty Lufthansa is somehow not able to hire at least decent looking stewardesses.

I’m in Germany now and I was walking around the CeBIT fair grounds yesterday. I was getting hungry but being a bit jet-lagged from my flight from the US and wanting to see as much as I could before the tiredness would catch up with me I postponed going to one of the many restaurants on the fair grounds. I walked into one but it was full of cigarette smoke. I went to an information desk and asked whether they have any smoke-free restaurant on the fair grounds. The young crew discussed between themselves in German and then one of them replied that there is none – smoking is permitted everywhere. To my visible surprise they added that Germany is a smoking-friendly country. But I digress… (more…)

I didn’t write anything for a few days as I was mostly moving around and didn’t have an easy access to Internet – only yesterday I did figure out how to connect my computer through my hosts’ cable modem. In that time I drove more then 630 miles / 1000 kms, walked extensively through the center of Washington, DC and made a drive along the Chesapeake bay’s Maryland shore down to Point Lookout. I don’t think it makes sense to list all the things I did see, instead I’ll share with you some of my thoughts. (more…)