It looks like Matt Good's been released on a day pass but he's still not taking his meds. He has a number of lovely shots from his travels around Europe ... I have matching photos I took back in 2002 from Vienna, Budapest and Milan. The idiot took a cab from the Milan airport to Milan itself, which is about one zillion kilometers away. Doesn't he know that modern Italy was laid out by statists?

Here's my take on Budapest and Milan.

Anyhoo, feeling an expansive sense of benovolence today, I'll have to claim that somewhere deep down I suspect many leftists are salvageable. For example, look at this quote:

It’s fascinating to me to be in what was once an Eastern Block country. You can definitely feel the long, cold shadow of the former USSR here. So the question is - is life better now that Burger King is every three blocks?

Now, what does that offensive piece of nastiness have to do with anything? Because you know that he knows what a retarded question it is because he had the good sense not to ask that of anyone in Budapest. Otherwise we'd be looking at photographs of his hospital rooms and reading that his orthodontic bills are an affront to social justice.

For those interested in the geographical ins and outs of Budapest, there isn't a Burger King every three blocks, unless you thing Budapest is a six by six block. There's a lot of McDonald's though — what a nightmare!