Alpina's blog post - Heroes

Sorry for not blogging for so long. I just didn't feel much like it. I must admit - the heavier I get, the slower my mind works, and I feel I don't have much to say.

It was a bad week for Austria anyway - and I don't mean last night's abominable performance of our national football team. Austria's best-known right wing populist politician died in a car crash this week. He was driving drunk, and at 142 on a road where only 70 is allowed, but his death makes him an absolute hero, if not martyr or saint, and the populist newspapers already call him "the Prince of the Hearts", after "the Princess of the Hearts", the English housewife who eloped to France because she preferred fucking the son of an Arab shop-owner and died speeding in Paris - yes, you remember, Diana.

Where are the real heroes? "Take an example of our young sports people", the President of our Republic said in public, "like Bernhard Kohl, the cyclist who became third in the Tour de France this year. They show us the way to the future." Yesterday Berni admitted that his surprising success was achieved with the help of forbidden drugs.

What a strange world: a dead person will live on, while poor Berni, who is still very much alive, has died for most.