William Lamport
Pinches Irish, there’s always something to learn outta them … The backgrounds to Mexico’s struggle against Spain for its independence have been argued to have taken root as early as 1650, when an Irishman, William Lamport, attempted to…
Read MoreJulio Sueco’s daily recommendation
From our own Richard Rodriguez ( de reciente acá se está haciendo muy relevante el compa que todos antes odiaban; everybody in the past little Xicano hate object seems to be becoming more and more relevant in American discourse, at times, I think, that…
Read Morea mentality far from mature
Music: Genesis, Illegal alien So the mentally spic and spac clean hygiene WASP government in DC insists on putting a wall across the border. One would not expect less. I wrote a minifix on the wall a couple years back. The wall wasn’t going to go…
Read MoreGay life below the border
Tales from TJ Gay life below the border BY ROB WILLIAMS AND TED GIDEONSE This article is not an attempt to reverse all of these popular assumptions about Tijuana, but rather to supplement and complicate them, and to describe our rather boisterously fun…
Read MoreInglés Xicano
I can’t help notice the noise that the right wingnuts make regards Aztlán and Chicanos and the whole culture clash enchilada. Specially English. I still have a few problems with English. I grew up never feeling that English was part of me. It was a…
Read MoreRegards the phrase: Israel to be wiped off the map
Reading Reuters has become a painful act of recently. I just don’t know what pseudo reporters or their honchos do with language but they sure need more time to invest in language courses. One of those phrases that riles me a whole bunch is the…
Read MoreSouthwest, norteño Xicano
Some of the Xicanos in what can, & only can, be deemed as a loose confedaration of goodie-two-shoes Xican@s bloggers who can’t seem to make up their mind about nothing, have sent me an email whereby I get accused of not only being a lousy…
Read MoreDios mio, they speak spanish in California?
Dios mio, I didn’t know California was a spanish word either! Could someone tell the Israeli friendly newsoutlet called Reuters, yes, I know, I am on the fringe of being called antisemitic, never mind am only 39 and really have not a shred of…
Read MoreTechnorati: the Aztlán tag
Dragging it through the mud for personal gain. I mean what else can be said of those that are insanely obsessesed with the idea that Xicanos are helt bent in returning Aztlán to México. It be suicidal, I have argued, it would be a kamikaze act on part of…
Read Morecoverage of the boycott in the mexican blogsphere
Dang, people were desperate for news or commentary on the boycott that even I made it not only to technorati but another place as well. My rants tend to give odd kinds of results. Suffice to say I’ll let it stand. Interpretations are weird and it…
Read MoreSo not Kimberly-Clark anymore
So not Kimberly-Clark anymore Blogger is not being nice. I got two accounts there and I can’t post what I am doing on the net regards the boycott. So be it. Watching the news reel from the spanish blogsphere. These are the following links: Juan…
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