Jealousy

Honduras is a country with roughly one million more people than the DFW, spread over an area a little more than four times the DFW. It is located in Central Central America (no, that is not a typo) and is made up largely of Mestizos, which are descendants from the long-ago love-mingling of Europeans and the Indians of that area. It also has one of the best capital names in all of the world; Tegucigalpa. If you have ever been in a Spanish class where you sing the Latin American Capital songs, this was one of your favorite parts.
Now, not only am I jealous of their capital, I am also jealous of their current political state. Their having a freaking coup! I have always wanted to be a part of a coup(“We step in to the party, disrupt the whole scene!”-Beastie Boys). Not for any “rebellious” reasons. I’m no starving artist who needs political unrest to be relevant (art is stupid). I have just always thought the idea of a coup is awesome. Actually, it might not even be the idea of one. I think it could just be the name.
The Britannica of our generation, Wikipedia, says “typically, a coup d’état uses the extant government’s power to assume political control of the country.” They explain further by quoting military historian Edward Luttwak(strong first name...not so sure about that last one though) as saying “’ A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.’” Basically, the beginnings of a revolution. This apparently happens a lot in Africa.
But back to the name, “coup. “ First of all, it’s like “soup”, which I love, but pronounced differently. Second of all, it’s like an American language joke to use that name. Look at it, it’s French. It probably stems from the French Revolution, the last time the French did anything. Since then though, all they’ve done is give up. They’re famous for it (also, they’re famous for being the reason we had “freedom fries”, another awesome name). Now we use one of their words to describe an intense, difficult, often unpopular show of resistance(read “not giving up”). Good joke, America.
Which reminds me of another thing I’m jealous of, funny people. I’m not very funny, but hopefully you enjoyed this post. It’s not my best work, but come one, it’s been a while. Hopefully this time I will continue to post…but probably not.

(on top of not being very funny, or possibly underlying it, i'm not very smart. so, feel free to post any necessary corrections you may notice. have a great day!)