gringo

Over at Hispanic Nashville Notebook, John Lamb has posted a very well-written review of George’s Flag, a bizarro 500-page ride through one man’s nonsensical idea of what it means to be Hispanic in America.

It’s a simple mistake. One anyone could have made.

Though many of our amigos come to this rapidly depreciating great land of ours to make a living by doing jobs Americans Don’t Want To Do, some habits are too hard to break:

Goldni points us to an Absolute ad which will scare the mierda out of many a gringo pendejo.

From the Christian Science Monitor, two higher priority hostages have been released, and others may be forthcoming.  The article doesn’t say what Chavez offered to secure their release.

Interesting.  Show of hands–who here thinks Chavez promised FARC something juicy (hmm…what could a militant group want?) in return for making him look like a hero and undermining Colombia’s current administrati

Obviously, I have been tracking the news on the case of Eric Volz. It has been on my heart and mind all day. Today's press briefing by Deputy Spokesman, Tom Casey, mentions the 2-3 day delay as nothing out of the ordinary in the Nicaraguan Judicial System...and labels the case "No Immediate Concern". I am glad to read that the US State Department is at least well versed on the situation.