I highly recommend the travel videos by Rick Steves if you ever come across them in a bookstore, video seller, or some online service. He goes to some obscure locations in his journeys and really digs for some out-of-the-way treasures and gives you, I think, the best overview of the local culture and history that he can.
I’m giving him a plug because I came across an editorial he wrote in today’s issue of USA Today which continues to be timely under these dark days of Bushco dominance, with these fundamentalist crazies getting WAY too much media attention (re: James Dobson writing a book that supposedly teaches your son how not to be gay, Pat Robertson and his lunacy – and by the way, I could care less that he apologized; he would never have done so if he hadn’t been called on his outrageous behavior).
Memo to Bushco, by the way: note what Steves does when he sees that a TV is showing a program that is objectionable to him because he doesn't want his kids to see it. He turns it off and takes it out of the room. It's called using your brain and exercising parental judgment. We're capable of doing this ourselves; we don't need you or your fundamentalist hypocrites to make up our minds for us in that regard.
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