Our New Anahuac

Compas, I have not been posting as consistently as I had been before. There was a mix of several reasons. One of them was that I had been putting all of my creative efforts into finishing a short book about my political thoughts. I actually finished the bulk of it about a year ago, but [...]

I was in Corpitos (Corpus Christi, Tejas) this weekend. More than one of my family members asked me in passing what I thought about Obama. While few political questions can be answered in a simple way, I try to sum up what I can in these social over-a-beer type situations. The quickest thing that I [...]

My wife is not overly political, but she called me a few weeks again because she was geniuinely concered about what she was (or wasn’t) seeing on TV. She was watching CNN, and she asked me whether I knew that the US was engaging in bombings of Pakistanis. Of course she was concerned for the [...]