Oh boy. Welcome to Mallard Fillmore, which is like if you hated yourself but were serving a thousand year geas making hacky right-wing political cartoons and wished you could die but don’t have the courage to end it.
It is this tragic reality the funny papers give us a glimpse into each and every week.
In, um, 1981 I was on a bus gong through Switzerland in the summer, and apparently it was the time they called out the militias to do training or whatever, because every hillside and roadway was filled with Swiss in uniforms deploying weapons, marching, tooling around in AFVs and trucks, and generally being quite martial. It was rather weirdly interesting.
Most of the food was bland, though, even if the chocolate was great.
The best meal i ever had was at this restraunt on Lake Lugano, on a patio above the dock, at sunset in July. The bruchetta was to die for, the prosciutto e melone was superb, and the lemon chicken succulent.
I mean look at this
Ristorante Roccabella, the balcony viewable from this picture.
Aha! It’s an Italian restaurant I bet! In Germany, I ate at Italian places all the time, because it was always better than the German food.
Of course, as Italian is one of Switzerland’s languages, and parts of Switzerland have close cultural ties to Italy, I guess it is still a Swiss restaurant. My bad was going to a Swiss German place I guess!
I’m probably the most conservative member of this forum if you don’t count the ones more conservative than I am. My credentials include voting for Mike Rowe and Brian Schweitzer.
And now my FB is blowing up with people posting about crisis actors. It’s like my friends are going wild and stupid concomitantly. One of them is a no-kidding medical doctor who’s my age. WHAT!?! Gah! What is happening?