As the Third World turns...

For this, we head to Gambia, where two Spanish men were taken into custody after allegedly putting the moves on two taxi drivers, for the purposes of scoring some action. This is in light of recent remarks by the country's president, ordering all homosexuals out of the nation, threatening to behead any one found to be gay. Wow. Their tourism department must be disgruntled as all hell by now. Kind of hard to sell decapitation as a positive.

As always, I will allow you reading this a brief pause...for which to facepalm yourself.

I remember writing an article a couple of years ago marveling at the travel warnings to Saudi Arabia being updated. With everything and a half happening in that region, who in their right mind needed a warning about heading over there in the first place? Same principle here, and in abundance.

Not that I am a well-traveled person or anything, but maybe a good rule of thumb to follow would be to check to see what they will kill, or attempt to kill, you over, and if you can answer 'yes' to any of the questions, then maybe a good idea would be to find a better freaking place to vacation, and I really don't care that it was the cheapest place you could book on Priceline.

And besides, who in their right mind travels to West Africa to play sex tourist? Couldn't you just as easily trade all those frequent filer miles for a dirty needle and save yourself a whole great big batch of air travel headaches? Going to West Africa for a booty call is like going to China to protest human rights. It looks stupid on paper, and it will probably get you killed.