just call me horchata

Sickening, that library.

The cartoon below sums it up for me. (source)

Eight years of a dangerous adolescent in the White House.

For a little balance, what I hate most about Obama: drones, kill list.

I was reading a post today that (I assumed) was in French. I can usually pick my way through a paragraph in French and get a minimal gist of what it's about, especially if it's basic French or about computers and tech.

I was reading one such paragraph today and was really getting it. I was getting excited and thinking, "OMG! French is finally coming together for me. Yes, sir! Hell yeah!"

Then I realized that the post was in Spanish with one French word in the title. DAMMIT!

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I have a German friend who was complaining one time that the whole world says that French is such a beautiful language. He then started doing a funny exaggerated German impression of a French speaker. He was quite good at it.

He then said, "German, now that's a beautiful language." I laughed and said, "I agree with you."

Funny how things go.

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Don't get me wrong. I love French people and French things. I buy lots of Internet services from France. All my e-mail goes through a mail server in Paris. That makes it extra classy.

Sasha takes over the whites hot out of the dryer.

Spooky old Westinghouse electric heater. For some reason it intrigued me.

ZOMG!

Quotes on my blog in the same month from Fidel Castro and president elect of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros.

What could it mean?

It means these guys have been around the block with the world's favorite superpower and know what the hell the deal is. I might not love either one, but I admire ballsy truth tellin' to power.

Maduro to Secretary of State John Kerry:

Who are you to talk about Venezuela with the many problems the United States has, economic, social and political problems that are overwhelming the people of the United States? Take your eyes off Venezuela. Stop with the scripted intervention. Close your eyes when listening to a U.S. government official, and you’re listening to any of these bourgeois leaders. The U.S. will not recognize the election result. We don’t care about recognition. We decided freely, and we will be free and independent, with or without you. We don’t care about your opinion.

I got the quote here.