Watchando: Venezuela Has Had It With Your Tacky Baby Names

• A new bill in Venezuela proposes to limit choices for newborns’ names to a list of 100. Hugo Chavez won’t be content until he has his constituents tied up like this. [Ed. Note: NSFW!!] [New America Media]
• Penelope Cruz says Antonio Banderas makes the best paella. Oh, so now we’re stereotyping ourselves? [QuePasa]
• It’ll cost us about a hundred billion dollars to get rid of all the illegals. Check, please. [CNN]
• Hey! Wikipedia has a list of Latin American Jews! Happy New Year, Uncle Daniel! [Wikipedia]
• “The Color Purple” author Alice Walker loves the color brown, too, apparently. [Miami Herald]
• Humberto suddenly turned into a hurricane this morning and hit Southeast Texas. And yet another Hispano has snuck into the Lone Star State. [Bloomberg]