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Animal Kingdom
By now you’ve heard GOP Rep. Steve King (a longtime friend of the Hispanic community) insist that “among young undocumented immigrants in the United States, ‘for everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s...
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Green Eggs and Bile
Now if I spent 21 straight hours bitching about something — taking breaks for random tasks such as reading Dr. Seuss — you would think that I would be against it. But as Ted Cruz has shown, that’s not...
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Up and Running
As we know, the Affordable Care Act went into effect this month. So-called Obamacare “is particularly critical to Latinos, who have the highest rate of being uninsured in the nation.” Yes, about nine...
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Yeah, Right
So the United States has resumed its wild, impetuous stab at having a functioning government. After this latest farce, internet sites are alive with comments along the lines of the following: “We need...
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Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Program
So once upon a time, and by that I mean just a few months ago, it looked like comprehensive immigration reform was going to happen, and soon. After all, you had Democrats fresh off an election triumph....
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A Matter of Confidence
Well, Obamacare has rolled out, and the results thus far aren’t exactly spectacular. This fiasco has illustrated the vast gap between liberals and conservatives. Now, I’m not talking about ideology, or...
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Double Agents
So it looks like many of the bugs have been worked out, and Obamacare is more or less chugging along. Or is it? According to some commentators, the key to the ACA’s ultimate success or failure is, as...
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Onward to 2014
This year, I became a father. I can assure you that nothing that monumental and awesome is going to happen in 2014. But among the few downsides to parenthood is the fact that one has less time to...
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The Soft Sell
As we all know, Latinos are about as likely to vote Republican as they are to sprout feathers and fly. The conservative reaction to Latinos’ tendency to vote Democratic is usually disbelief and the...
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Born in the US of A
Not so long ago, life was easy for xenophobes. They could slander Latinos and immigrants simultaneously, because they were thought of as one and the same. Also, there weren’t that many Hispanics...
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What’s Not to Love?
So our good friend Ted Cruz is once again threatening to shut down the federal government if undocumented people are offered a path to citizenship… excuse me, I meant “amnesty.” Now, Senator Cruz is...
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Quick on the Draw
Recently, I wrote how everyone (except for you and me) is prone to furious outbursts of racist invective at the slightest provocation. That got me thinking about a related issue. Namely, why are...
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More Than Skin Deep
What Latino doesn’t love President Obama? Well, what Latino who hasn’t had a family member deported? But I kid. In the last presidential election, Hispanics overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama, and...
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Finally
By now, you’ve heard about President Obama’s executive action on immigration. The plan could help as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants avoid deportation. It marks a major development in the...
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Living in the Past
Right around Christmas, President Obama freaked everybody out by announcing that we are normalizing relations with Cuba. That’s right — Cuba, the home of this guy. It’s not like we’re going to be all...
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Antibodies
Two facts you probably know about me: I live California, and I am the parent of a toddler. Those two seemingly unrelated items mingled recently when a measles outbreak hit our state, and much of the...
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Wishing and Waiting
I’ve edited over 100 books, from thriller novels to dense histories to self-help diatribes. Only a few of those books have lodged in my memory. Among them was a manual written by a prepper. If you...
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#MoreThanALabel
Recently, the good people at Simmons College asked me to take part in their blog carnival. Well, how could I say no to anything with the word “carnival” in it? Will there be rides? Will there be...
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Well That Was Fun
So this past weekend, some blowhard megalomaniac hosted Saturday Night Live. Depending on your perspective, this event was a harmless pop culture happenstance, a dangerous promotion of xenophobia, or a...
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Perception or Reality?
In the wake of last week’s horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, many U.S. presidential candidates are lining up to say how uber-tough, how mega-manly they are and how they would wipe out Isis in a...
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