Beauty and the Beasts
Lazaro Cardenas Street in Mexico City is the unofficial dividing line that separates the Historic Center from the expansive, more modern part of the most populous metropolitan area in the…
Tag: politics
On Poverty.
I was wandering aimless in a Mexican crowd recently when I saw a truck with a loud ad for a just released KFC product. Beneath the enticing photo of a…
Was Jesus Gay?
Legend has it that somewhere between 10 BCE and the year 0 CE, a child was born to a girl named Mary, the young wife of Joseph, a carpenter from…
The God Couple.
In putting on his recent God and pony-up show in the Washington Mall, Glenn Beck chose his venue wisely. Anything smaller and there might not have been enough room to…
Death of the Salesman.
It’s over then. As empires go, this one didn’t last long. The ending came not in one defining moment, perhaps it hasn’t even dawned on many, but it’s finished; done-in…
As the World Burns.
“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.” “What must be done ultimately should be done immediately.” Thus spake two of history’s most infamous…
Sex and the Pity.
Not so long ago I worked for a company which had as one of its clients a large enterprise from a Middle Eastern nation. The country from whence they came…
Fighting Theocracy.
As the streets of Tehran fill with demonstrators and blood, there is the potential for historical change, not only within Iran but the region. The current protest goes beyond the…
Ass Backwards.
The President of the United States was in Mexico recently talking about issues important to both nations. What he said and what he wanted to say were far removed from…
Where the Rubber Meets the Load.
Not wanting to be upstaged by Michael Jackson, the Pope went on a tour of his own recently. Like a criminal returning to the scene of the crime, he and…