March 08, 2003

Caramba!

The other day I posted the text of a resignation letter from our former political counselor in Athens. In that letter, the phrase "Oderint dum metuant" was used. It means, roughly, "let them hate as long as they fear." Apparently, that isn't such a bad description of the Administration's attitude towards the rest of the world. Now Mexico (and, implicitly, its citizens currently in the US) is being told to shape up, or the American citizenry may react badly. Unfortunately, the original interview Krugman cites is not available online; I'd like to read it.

Here's a sporting life version of The Onion: Sports Pickle. Sample headline: "U.N. Resolution Declares Huskers No. 1." And this week's "Awww" story is also plucked from the pages of Sports Illustrated: Pick Up Butch, a lovely tradition at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Posted by Linkmeister at March 8, 2003 11:46 AM
Comments

The town next to mine has had an influx of Mexicans during the last few years. Our hospital's nursery is teeming with Mexican babies. The majority work washing dishes or housekeeping. They live in houses 5 families to a house (unapproved by the city-but not sanctioned). They save their money to build houses in Mexico. They wish to thank the US for allowing them to work, and save. This info is from an article in our town newspaper. The reporter followed one such family. Names were not given because they were illegal aliens.
I have very mixed feelings about illegal Mexicans..and when I discuss them, I always get the response that they are working at jobs that no one else wants to do, so let them be...

Posted by: toxiclabrat at March 8, 2003 01:21 PM

I think a lot of people have mixed feelings, including me. There are a lot of towns in Mexico which only survive thanks to the remittances that illegals send back there. I do get furious with the anti-immigrant crowd squawking about "taking jobs from Americans." A lot of those jobs aren't ones those people would take or have their kids take, nor would many Americans.

Posted by: Linkmeister at March 8, 2003 01:30 PM