Dateline: Mexico City Hilton Branch World Headquarters.

Let’s put it this way.  The teenage police officers wear bullet-proof vests. 

Mexico City provides an excellent ground zero for testing one’s ability to base decisions on facts or emotions.  Make an emotion-driven mistake here and…well, you’ve seen the news. 

No way I’m going to miss all my favorite places, which just happen to include Federal Police Headquarters and the Congressional Building where, at the moment, the president is calling for support in the effort to wipe out the drug cartels sucking the life out of this country.

Granted, even coming here was an Emotional Guidance System-driven decision.  Joining the mob-filled streets…ditto. 

I have, however, decided on a compromise.  I make note of nearby doors and shops.  When I notice more than two policemen with machine guns gathering, peering around corners, exchanging excited two-way radio conversations… I duck away from the street, a decidedly fact-based move.  So far, so good.