Moby Dick, a great book that nobody reads

There were only about a dozen books that I brought with me here to Guadalajara. One of them was “Moby Dick”. It swept me away when I read i...

Bank robbery made easy: download cash to a DVD or iPod

Click on this cartoon to make it bigger. If it´s too big, go to View on your browser commands, then Zoom and you should find an option to m...

Swine flu in Guadalajara Mexico

Congressmen wearing surgical masks, from Milenio.com All the schools in the country have been ordered closed for two weeks, and all the cine...

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...