Rush Limbaugh gets his comeuppance

Opinion -
What does this have to do with Mexico and Gulf Region affairs? Nada.

(First published on MGRR's main page March 6, 2012)
As everybody knows - everybody who didn't just land on Earth from Planet Krytpon 2, anyway - Rush Limbaugh is an ultra-conservative radio commentator in the United States. Maybe I should say ultra-conservative by my standards. Rush no doubt would have been comfortable working with Joseph Goebbels in the 1930s. America is stuck with him in 2012.

I believe in free speech, a free press and the First Amendment. Some who claim to really don't. So I fully support the right of people like Rush to have their say. As a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court wrote decades ago, in the "marketplace of ideas" the truth will eventually become manifest, and everything else will be flushed down the toilet (that last very inelegant clause is my own, not the judge's).

Puerto Vallarta cruise passengers robbed

Misadventure in paradise

(First published on the MGRR main page Feb. 26, 2012)
I claim no authorship of this story, but I'm passing it along for those who may not have seen it. CNN reported the events earlier today in English.

It seems as though 22 Carnival passengers were robbed during a brief stop over in the beautiful resort of Puerto Vallarta last Thursday (Feb. 23). They went ashore to take a guided trail excursion, and were waylaid by local bandidos. In addition to cash and other valuables, their passports were stolen. Talk about a hassle . . .