Legacy

Let's not worry just now about America's cultural impact on the rest of the world. You can get Pop Tarts in Canada and the United Kingdom. 

Also, you can get shot and killed while visiting the ancient ruins in Mexico, just like you could here at home.

A sixty-one year old Canadian tourist was murdered by a lone gunman at the pyramids of Teotihuacán. Several other visitors were wounded by gunfire and even more were injured trying to escape the hail of bullets. 

There might be some comfort in knowing that the nutjob with a gun was part of a drug cartel, aiming to increase the terror among world travelers. Sadly, this is not the case. Preliminary investigations suggest that the aforementioned nutjob was identified as a twenty-seven year-old Mexico City resident who had expressed admiration for Hitler and for the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. Monday’s attack occurred on April 20, Hitler’s birthday, and also the anniversary of the Columbine attack.

For those of you in the know, there were many connections made between April 20 and its connection with cannabis use that dates all the way back to 1971 in California. Eric and Dylan may or may not have been avid users of marijuana, and their fascination for all things Hitler is well-documented. 

As is the picture left behind by the Mexico gunman who used AI to include himself in a gun-toting tableau with the long-since dead murderers of Columbine. Like his mentors, the Mexican gunman turned his gun on himself after authorities responded. This incident occurred twenty-seven years to the day of the Columbine massacre. 

I guess I wish you could get Pop Tarts in Mexico instead.