Good reasons to oppose Earth Day, from Russell Baker

I got a kick out of this 1990 column in the New York Times from Russell Baker. Here's the best part, especially the last paragraph: If...

Obama's visit and the Burger King ads that ticked off Mexicans

Burger King operators in Spain and Great Britain launched what they thought was a clever ad campaign for their new Texican burger showing a ...

Volcanoes, Colima and pre-Colombian sites

Colima is a charming city of about 130,000 a couple of hours west of Guadalajara. This is where we stayed, the Hotel Ceballos, named for th...

Crime in Guadalajara and other news bits

Last week the big news was that the head of the state´s homicide squad was assassinated while he was driving on the Guadalajara beltway. T...

Graduation at the Digital Journalism Center

Manuel Moreno, left, is the director of the online university at the University of Guadalajara, which hosts my online courses in digital jou...

How a headline ricochets around the Web

OK, this is an ego trip but it´s also about how information gets spread around these days on the web. In other words, you can run but you ca...

Tenochtitlán and Xochimilco: Mexico City before the Conquest

When the Spanish conquistadors got their first look at the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán in 1519, they compared its magnificence to Venice and...