Lee on Nov 14 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs
When you think of the numerous problems routinely facing residents of Mexico City, things like an astronomical violent crime rate, standstill traffic, urban poverty, collapsing infrastructure, chronic water shortages, claustrophobia-inducing overcrowding and toxic pollution might come to mind. Even aircraft falling out the sky might reasonably have joined your list of hazards confronting the city’s [...]
Lee on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
*Gasp* Is that a border? A real, defined, fenced, national border? For our country?? Trick photography surely.
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ChrisB on Apr 04 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Humor
Many of you may have seen the Absolut Vodka ad that ran in a Mexican magazine recently in links around the blogosphere. Now the mocking has begun as well. I submit this more historically accurate version of their ad.
While California, Arizona, New Mexico and the rest of the green land may have been [...]
Lee on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Lee's Page
photo: Simón Pais-Thomas
Mick at Uncorrelated has another lovely post on the essentially vile character and politics of Mike Huckabee. Toward the end of his remarks he briefly hits Huckabee’s proposed Fair Tax:
…and politically DOA policy planks like the fair tax.
(Uncorrelated)
Politically DOA we must hope, because Huckabee’s tax plan would do more than “eliminate the IRS.” [...]
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