cinco de mayo

It is Tequila and Mini-Sombreros Day in America, hooray! It always seems like Cinco de Mayo should be Mexican Independence Day — dressing to match a national flag and getting wasted on a holiday named after its date on the calendar is how independence days are done, right? But today is actually the day when [...]

Now that it is illegal to be brown in Arizona, who knows how much longer we will be able to legally celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican Christmas. Seeing as how no one really likes Mexicans anymore, we can imagine that any celebrations today may be a bit awkward, but hey, the Mexican army did [...]

Saturday, May 1 through Friday, May 7: Barack Obama’s admission that he’s anti-Real American and the Caps devastating Game Six loss weren’t the only important pieces of news on the cover of Tuesday’s second class morning read. Note the righthand corner where it’s revealed that the Washington National Opera’s Marriage of Figaro is a “delight.” [...]

It sucks when real holidays and artificial holidays occur on the same day, because then you face far too many opportunities to eat and drink at cheap prices. LIFE IS SO HARD. Today is both Cinco de Mayo and First Tuesday in Adams Morgan. So you can dust off your sombrero, drink really cheap margaritas, pretend [...]

Wednesday, April 29: For those of you who weren’t able to get a free cone from Ben and Jerry’s last week (damn long lines), Baskin Robbins is giving you the opportunity to have almost free ice cream: tonight you can enjoy a small scoop of any flavor for just 31 cents and the proceeds go [...]

JOHN MCCAIN  3:32 pm May 5, 2008

Curse You, John McCain!

by Jim Newell


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