Art and Rants

So Im sitting at college today (the reason for the lack of posts, and art) when all of a sudden someone tells me to look atop the bridge. And lo and behold the most blatant proof of stupidity if I have ever seen it, two jackasses atop the bridge (puente de las americas) with flags protesting. Now Im all for reasonable protest and with elections only getting closer I am mentally prepared for protests and closed streets now and again. At first I was amused by the bridge antics but then it started to get irritating, and with my frustration grew my desire to see one of the men jump off or “fall”. Now that may be cruel-ish but its only fair, its good entertainment, this desire was only fueled after a friend told me they should set themselves on fire. Now THAT would be a protest!

Im gonna keep it short because Im sure you can read all about it in the news but the jackasses werent even protesting the canal expansion, I found out when I got home that they were actually cab drivers who had been working on getting a permit for quite some time now and because they were denied the permit on the account that there are no more slots vacant to be allowed permits they decide to climb up the bridge to protest and get them the hard way. Now this irks me, and its a classic example of panamanian backwards logic. If something doesnt work then by God, regardless of how petty my problem is the government will fix it or I will be pissed. Honestly man, over a permit?! Did you really think you were gonna have the president of the country below you begging you to come down and hand you a taxi permit? Its ridiculous. While I will admit that a government should help its citizens this just borders on the moronic, there are bigger issues out there and you cant possibly expect, as an adult, that someone else will fix your problems for you.

Next time taxi dude make it more interesting for us college dwellers and light yourself on fire while falling from the bridge, wresteling a winged shark on your way down perhaps. The scenario is definitely more likely to happen than what you were expecting.