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Back from Budapest

I was recently in Budapest, Hungary for vacation. That was an extraordinary treat a long time in coming. Having gone to college during the Velvet Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall I grew up thinking I would never be able to visit such a place. And now I have.
This was such an extraordinary experience. In college I had read Miklos Haraszti’s A Working in a Worker’s State and his Velvet Prison. These were books that do about the best job I know of describing what is was to be an everyday citizen in the society. I immediately sought out the statue of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary until the Soviets invaded in 1956, arresting and later killing him. Nagy was extraordinary. Though he was still convinced that Communism as an ideology held value, he never let go of his belief in freedom and the notion that a citizenry still had to choose it’s own path. For this he lost his life.
On a lighter note, Budapest is extraordinary, and should the US dollar every regain any value, I highly recommend you give it a visit.

Still here.

After months of silence, three friends, Kyle, Bricker and Patrick, have busted my chops enough to update. And so much has happened. We’ve been to Eastern Europe, the caldron of my formative years, and Minneapolis has endorsed candidates for School Board. Oh yeah, and that Barack Obama guy seems to do well also. I’ll try not to focus on my consumer beefs of the past, and instead focus on what I’m doing to shed light on great ideas. Check in, as I think I’ll be writing more.