Don Jaide over at Rasta Livewire thinks they’re closer than most others do. If Bill Clinton’s black, then I see no reason why Helen of Troy shouldn’t be too, irrespective of what the original texts actually say.
I once cycled over the Dutch border into Germany wearing a ballgown and was quite fiercely stoned by small children, so this study by Ian Walker may not provide a panacea to our problems.
Abogánster = abogado (lawyer) + gangster. Here‘s some good stuff by Carlos Monsiváis about legal culture in a country where justice is generally viewed as the belonging to the rich. He says that abogánster is a 1940s term whose archetype was Bernabé Jurado, legendary for eating evidence, buying witnesses, overseeing torture leading to false confessions,…
‘Jones is convinced, for example, that Jesus was wandering through ancient Mexico around AD 600, paying calls on various Mayan villagers. He has published “evidence” that the Mayans were well aware of the “resurrected Lord” centuries before the Spanish priests crossed the Atlantic and gave them the Good News.’
Here once again is polemics prof Geoff Nunberg making a dick of himself–check his update–while trying to do the same to George W Bush. Anyone who has spent any time with luvvies or second-hand booksellers will be aware that writing may be regarded as a commodity and that commoditisers are not necessarily unsympathetic idiots. […
If United hadn’t made me put the bag in hold luggage, and if United’s notoriously light-fingered (and heavy-footed) baggage handlers at Chicago O’Hare hadn’t stolen my camera, I would be able to post a photo of a no-parking sign from a village south of Oaxaca, Mexico, which had lost the ESTACION from NO ESTACIONARSE–figure it…