Brown Motion

aka the DEAD RAT. In order to bump viewership and attract some other ethnic groups to visit the blog I decided to go Spanish in the title. Just kidding. I had to read labels on a 'rat poison' package standing in Aisle 15 of the Home Depot to figure out this title. Sounds desparate? Well - its just a funny perspective on how our lives as a society have changed (at least in the major metros) over the past few decades. Disclosure - we had some issues with house rats recently (in case people got the wrong idea). A recent interview on a local public radio station with a Pakistani novelist called Mohsin Hamid further motivated me to pen my own version of what the cliche 'Rata competir por algo' (or rat race) is about. Mohsin has narrated a somewhat relatable opener in his recent self-help book called 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia'. That the tectonics under Asia were causing it to rise was not new news, what with forecasts of the Mount (Everest that ...