The Slim-line Obama-phone
I admit I haven’t been all that wrapped up in the U.S. elections, and I haven’t seen Fox News in years, so the whole “Obama-phone” thing passed me by. Back when Ronald Reagan was President… and the...
View ArticlePuritans In The Time of Stupidity
In Victoria Australia, Trinity Grammar School senior literature teacher Christopher Bantick has is a problem… based on the complaints of this one school master, the Victoria Council on Education is...
View ArticleAnother ugly America…ho-hum
Where Texans always say “Thank God for Mississippi,” most MexPats of any sensibility always say “Thank God for the Baja”. No matter how crude, rude or bone-headed a gringo might act in “mainland”...
View ArticleAn immodest proposal
The most appalling idea yet in the “war on (some, but not all) Mexican drug (exporters)”. In the overwrought prose of the Associated Press: The Pentagon is stepping up aid for Mexico’s bloody drug war...
View ArticleEverything’s bigger in Texas… including the bullshit
Via Juanita Jean: exas Senior Senator John Cornyn, who has been sissy-whipped by Texas Junior Senator The Amazing Ted and His Bubbling Mouth, has gone all out on them damn illegals. I mean, if you...
View ArticleI went to the fights and a hockey baseball game broke out
Except maybe for the mining companies, who hire thugs to do their dirty work for them, you don’t expect Canadians to get physical with Mexicans. Or vice-versa. But, then again, being in Arizona tends...
View ArticleBullshit reloaded
The national media has perpetually portrayed an extremely inaccurate image of life on the border, all based on sensational lies created by politicians like McCain. I felt as if the visit of these four...
View ArticleHow to talk Mexican
Filed under: Humor Tagged: Arizona, bone-headed stupidity, Generic idiots, Snark
View Article¡Que pendejo!
Not that he IS President of Mexico anymore, but as the guy who unleashed the “war on drugs” on the civilian populace in this country, he should be a little more discrete in what he says about...
View ArticleYou don’t need no education…
Sombrero tip to Porter Corn for this latest bit of Arizona stupidity as reported by Three Sonorans: … Tucson High School has just banned Advanced Spanish Classes (7,8) for all of its students! One of...
View ArticleWas ist das?
“We do not shout ‘Olè!’, much less eat ‘chile-con-carne’, nor strum guitars, don boots and sombreros and walk shouting through the streets,” say Mexican residents of Berlin. They have asked their...
View ArticleToday’s reading
I have often suspected that the increase in funding for border security has more to do with keeping defense contractors happy since we don’t have Iraq and Afghanistan to splurge on anymore. I’m not in...
View ArticleEyes wide open
We’re a modern country… with state legislators as stupid as anyone else’s. While the competition for stupidest state legislator of the year is usually a close race between representatives from Texas,...
View ArticleLeave no bad policy behind
With growing recognition in the United States of the damages caused by over-reliance on testing, the “No Child Left Behind” policies of the Bush Junior’s Adminstration (which were designed to leave...
View ArticleBooby prize
Via Buzon Xalapa (my translation): As many will recall , during his campaign for the presidency, Enrique Peña Nieto was roundly criticized by actors, musicians , people in general and intellectuals,...
View ArticleAs expected… those Canadian firebombers
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andy Blatchford Yesterday, I bet Canadian Dollars to Tim Horton doughnuts that something like this was going to happen. I want double-glazed maple doughnuts… It seems there is a...
View ArticleOh, FRACK!
With oil reserves dropping in Mexico (and somehow we¿re supposed to buy the argument that more exploitation means more oil), PEMEX plans for facking move ahead. According to Regeneration and PEMEX...
View ArticleYou don’t need no education
Panamanian Secretary of Labor, Luis Ernesto Carles, goes one step beyond the Mexican government’s educational “reforms” which would turn most public universities into mere technical schools (and the...
View ArticleTouchy, touchy…
From Sin Embargo: US immigration authorities canceled the visa for a woman traveling to the United States with a meme of President Donald Trump on her cell phones. On Denisse Maerker’s radio program on...
View ArticleA not so tariff-ic idea….
Donald Trump is unilaterally going to start slapping a five percent tariff on Mexican exports to the United States, raising the tariff by five percent per month “until such time as illegal migrants...
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