La Migra!

So, my girl asked me to write about something she sent me: there is a place in Mexico, known as Parque EcoAlberto, which simulates illegal border crossings. It costs about $20 for four hours, wherein you must face guards, difficult terrain and barbed wire in an attempt to make it across the "border". A man that works as a "people-smuggler" in the game, Alfonso Martinez, claims that the experience helps "people get a glimpse of the suffering that migrants endure".

To be honest, I don't think this really needs much commentary. I mean, it pretty much speaks for itself. I personally think it sounds like a good time, especially since I won't, you know, get shot. Obviously it raises all sorts of questions in my mind, the most obvious of which being, "Do migrants really need a training field?"

The whole "migrant worker" thing never really bothered me. Well, except that any given migrant has better health care than I do. That bugs me. But, then again, that's practically the one thing they have over me. It sucks being an illegal alien, and I can't really find it in my heart to get angry about it. It's hard to get all riled about a group of people that might make as much in a day of backbreaking labor as I do in an hour sitting on my ass in a climate controlled building.

Actually, I'm starting to get to the point where I can't read about politics anymore. The things these people do make me so goddamn angry that I get headaches. I just want to walk up to some of these politicians, grab them by the shoulders, shake them until their teeth fall out, and scream "What is WRONG with you?!" I was always raised to own up to your mistakes and try and fix them...unlike the government, which tries act like it doesn't make mistakes and then attempts to make you look like the asshole for requesting them to be fixed. Assholes.

In good news, the Duke lacrosse players have been acquitted. Not only that, but the DA that was prosecuting them is in real deep shit, and is probably going to lose his career. I have about this much sympathy for him.

I watched Goodfellas for the first time last night, and man, is that an intense movie! Very good, but very disturbing in a lot of ways. If you like gangster movies, then it's right up your alley. Of course, most of the known world has already seen the damn film, so I'm probably just preaching to the choir at this point.

You know, despite all the anger of this post, I'm actually in a pretty good mood. I just have certain triggers that, when manipulated, set me off. You'll know if you hit a good one.

That's all for now. Peace.