We were driving back from Mt. Shasta, the final and somewhat arbitrary destination of our Thanksgiving weekend getaway. No heater, no defrost, and the beginning of the fall flu which felt like someone was pushing their thumbs into each side of my throat. For about five hours we were looking at this: With each fifty [...]

“One-third peeled.” That would have probably been my best guess if someone – say Flavorpill San Franciso – were to have asked me the meaning of aterciopelado. It’s not that I haven’t come across the term before. In fact, there is conclusive evidence that on Thursday, February 10, 2005 I read that: Quick note to [...]

Escrito en Caracas, Venezuela el 22 de Septiembre Igual en los EU como aquí en Venezuela, pido un espresso y me responden, “quieres un expresso?” “Si,” digo, “un espresso.” Me da gusto saber que, al menos, estamos unidos en nuestras equivocaciones. Expreso, expres, rápido, apurado: como la imagen típica que tienen los latinoamericanos sobre las [...]

My view is that we had so many inspectors in there and enough forces in the region to back up the inspectors that we sort of had Saddam pinned down, in terms of his ability to do something fairly far-reaching with weapons of mass destruction. How many times have we heard that before? Democrats justifying [...]