El Chuqueño

Yesterday we had Thanksgiving at our house. All the relatives came. We were drinking, and then we started talking politics,

According to this story in La Polaka, the Mexican government has decommissioned the customs checkpoints on highways from the border

Here’s the stuff that William Burroughs had to be thankful for, 1986. Pretty cynical, god bless him. I lifted this

This column by Nicholas Kristoff shines a light on it. He claims that rich people think they earned it, so

Wikipedia has a post up about the ballpark. Unfortunately, the article is devoid of a lot of the real story

My friend Tony Testa posted this on Facebook. It’s never too late to learn.

An old donkey fell in a well. The donkey was old, and the well was dry, so the farmer decided

The problem, Mr. Krugman points out, riffing on Larry Summers’ speech to the IMF, is that we’re not all buying

According to this story in El Diario, people are killing vendors of pirated CD’s and DVD’s on Juarez streets. A

Maybe you’ve negotiated the Times excruciating new website to read this story about a study for a new parking garage

Listen to this cynical (probably entirely correct) rant from former Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about the state of

According to this interesting article from Alternet, the decline in the middle class is of no concern to the wealthy,

According to this opinion piece from Wired, we all better enjoy the internet while we can. The country’s second highest

Here’s an interesting story about a police stop gone wrong. Very wrong. And they have duck races, too. [Update]: It

I think Mr. Crazy said it best: I came to the conclusion that even though I’m gonna have to wear

The El Paso Times parent corporation, citing the soft economy and increased on-line competition, layed off 19 people this week,

Did anyone notice the cognitive dissonance in the noise coming out of the ballpark crowd? I am really trying to