In an episode from the late 1950s or early 60s, Alan Funt approached people outside an employment agency and described the most disgusting, ill-paid work imaginable – he called it something like “The Job from Hell.” It involved shoveling offal in a “flaming pit,” with sweltering temperatures, deadly germs, and a salary of $60 [...]
Read MoreAn old friend in the border city El Paso writes, lamenting that she looked drab at a recent protest against the idea of building a wall to keep out immigrants.
It’s hard to believe she came off as less than fabulous, since she’s a veteran street campaigner, versed in the art of political buttons, placards, [...]
Miss Teen Mexico US Latina’s gown is aqua, shiny, liquid and long. Just like the Rio Grande River, and surely you wouldn’t want it — or her — trussed up and blocked by ugly old concrete or girders. Miss TMUSL (her name is Breeana Shaw) doesn’t like that idea. Lovely Miss Texas Latina, [...]
Read MoreSeriously, New York City needs to screen Nacho Libre for our cops. That’s the implication of today’s news that an immigrant arrested in May while wearing a mask at a protest march was just vindicated in court. The case has been covered by the Spanish-language paper El Diario, but ignored by the mainstream media. That’s [...]
Read MoreBowing to anti-immigation pressure yesterday, the Bush Admin announced that US employers now have 90 days to clear up worker social security numbers that don’t match with the government’s database. After that, employers who don’t fire out-of-status workers will face criminal sanctions. So will employees.
According a guy I know in the Mexico state San [...]
I’m doing some work in Mexico and just got back from buying a comb at the Wal-Mart in San Luis Potosi. A report in the US press recently noted that Mexico Wal-mart, which I think is that country’s largest employer, uses merchandise baggers who work for no salary, no wages, no benefits: nothing except tips. [...]
Read MoreIt looks like I’ll not be eating my cachucha (meaning hat, for those without the time to email “Ask a Mexican”). According to today’s Las Cruces Sun News, that Joint Terrorism Task Force report about Iraqis smuggled across the border, which I wrote about yesterday, is most likely utter mierda. It turns out the [...]
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var addthis_pub = \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’abcnews\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’; Oh my goodness — Iraqis smuggled through our southern border! The FBI says so. ABC does, too. It sounds real!
But so does the story of that poor woman in the 1980s who shampooed her little dog then put it in the microwave to dry off, and you know [...]
Kooler than Kahlo? “Whorehouse: Pseudo-journalists at a good price” Zócalo, July 2007
Did Frida Kahlo have spinal bifida? Does correctly guessing the Mexican left’s future lie in parsing its gusto for Canal-Street-style trinkets? Tune in, folks — below.
First, Frida’s medical problems. A New York Times story today about the artist’s current exhibit at Mexico [...]
McAllen Chamber president calls for wall around nation’s capital
James Osborne
June 19, 2007 - 4:56PM
McALLEN — What do you do when the federal government announces it’s going to build a large, metal fence through your community and there’s nothing you can do to stop it?
Write your members of Congress, complain on talk [...]
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