My Interview on ‘My Latin Life’ Podcast
I did an interview on the My Latin Life podcast. We covered familiar territory to this blog, but there is new, politically incorrect takes to make it worth a listen. My greatest regret and first...
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My Politically-Incorrect Review of that Super Bowl Halftime Show
Before I give you the irreverent review you didn’t know you needed, I must say first and foremost that I’m old and uncool. Caveat: I’m old. I’m closer to 50 than 40. When I get the remote, which is...
View ArticleThe Don Job Corollary: Monroe Doctrine Redux
For years my 2011 article on the Monroe Doctrine ranked among the most visited pages on Expat Chronicles. I don’t think it’s a great article, but the internet content game can be like that. You get...
View ArticleVirility in Venezuela Redux
The Pink Tide just ate a big, steaming pile and licked the plate afterward. The U.S. military snatching Maduro was remarkable, and I can’t let it go. I can’t get my head around how impotent the...
View ArticleGet In Where You Fit In … Or Don’t
I’m still thinking about the poem, “The Men Who Don’t Fit In” by Robert Service, which is the new credo at Expat Chronicles. Read it now if you haven’t. I used to think about “fitting in” as a...
View ArticleIs Trump the Real Pocahontas? (Indian Giver)
“Indian Giver” was a common insult when I was a kid. It meant someone who gave you something and then asked for it back. The historical accuracy of the slur is debated, but the popular perception in...
View Article‘Trade Wars and Good, and Easy to Win’
Liberation Day was April 2. The liberation lasted one week because people got tired of WINNING. We needed a pause. Capitulation Day was April 9. Trump blinked then and has blinked some more. If Trump...
View ArticleThese Trump Policies Ain’t So Bad
After Biden beat Trump in 2020, a moderate pundit I like issued a challenge to make common ground with a Trump supporter. Identify a Republican policy that you agree with, and tell him that. I did...
View ArticleTake Solace that Trump Backs Down Sometimes
Trump has blinked, for now, on levying tariffs on Canada and Mexico. I recently sent out an email (sign up here) about how I lost sleep over the weekend. Not because I’m worried about a trade war, but...
View ArticleLet Us Real Americans Cheer for America’s Team
My son was cheering for the Buffalo Bills to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the semifinal match that determines who will play the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. I told him that if the Bills...
View ArticleIs Trump the Real Pocahontas? (Indian Giver)
“Indian Giver” was a common insult when I was a kid. It meant someone who gave you something and then asked for it back. The historical accuracy of the slur is debated, but the popular perception in...
View Article‘Trade Wars and Good, and Easy to Win’
Liberation Day was April 2. The liberation lasted one week because people got tired of WINNING. We needed a pause. Capitulation Day was April 9. Trump blinked then and has blinked some more. If Trump...
View ArticleThese Trump Policies Ain’t So Bad
After Biden beat Trump in 2020, a moderate pundit I like issued a challenge to make common ground with a Trump supporter. Identify a Republican policy that you agree with, and tell him that. I did...
View ArticleTake Solace that Trump Backs Down Sometimes
Trump has blinked, for now, on levying tariffs on Canada and Mexico. I recently sent out an email (sign up here) about how I lost sleep over the weekend. Not because I’m worried about a trade war, but...
View ArticleLet Us Real Americans Cheer for America’s Team
My son was cheering for the Buffalo Bills to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the semifinal match that determines who will play the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. I told him that if the Bills...
View ArticleMy Son Called Me ‘Gay’
Do you remember when your parents drove you nuts by treating you as younger than you were? As a father, I see how it happens. You find a trick that works, and you learn to use it. A joke, a song, a...
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Make the Crusades Great Again
The Donald Trump reality show has begun with a list of cabinet and high-level nominees who span the spectrum from normal to crackpot. One nominee has already withdrawn. Another faces scrutiny of his...
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Another Politically Incorrect Race Rant Redux
In May 2023 I sent newsletter subscribers an email titled Another Politically Incorrect Race Rant (sign up now if you want to receive these gems). Below is the excerpt that applies to this week’s news...
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Who in America Likes Their Private Health Insurance?
Alternate Title: Canary in the Coal Mine? Many Americans are pleased that the CEO for America’s largest health insurer was assassinated in Manhattan last week. That is the state of American healthcare...
View ArticleThe LatAm-Gringo Whiplash
I’ve been traveling between Latin America and the United States for 17 years. But in all of those years, there was only one trip. This was the first year I went back and forth four times in less than...
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