It doesn’t really make sense to address points brought up my people whose judgment is clouded by hate or ignorance because, more often than not, their arguments are colored more by passion than rational thinking. Then again, the remedy...

Mohamed D’Ali Carvalho Santos, a Brazilian man who confessed to slaughtering and chopping up a British woman, Cara Burke, smiled for cameras while leading police officers to her remains. And, because this is the internet and we’re all here...

With all the questions surrounding whether or not The New Yorker’s “The Obamas as Terrorist Fist-Jabbers” cover is good satire or detrimental to his campaign and public image, we didn’t give much thought to how the cover could actually...

“Desperate Housewives” creator and cutely-named man, Marc Cherry, talked to the NY Daily News about the new direction his godawful series is taking. This will include, he explains, the “de-glamourization” of Gaby — a former runway model despite being...

Writer Daniel Cubias wrote an essay for The Huffington Post on the way Latinos view therapy. According to Cubias — and his mother — Latinos have historically and culturally favored music and art as a means of therapy, as...

As anyone who has been a little girl at some point of another can tell you: Little girlhood is not an easy thing to go through unscathed - particularly in a world increasingly filled with Bratz dolls and hair...

We’re definitely not the only ones to have noticed that most stories involving meth, serial killers, pregnant teenagers, meth-addicted pregnant teen serial killers and Truck Nutz come from Florida. “Best Week Ever” noticed too! All thanks to a story...

Americans who live on the Mexican border are going to Mexico to buy gas now that George Bush has snorted up all the oil and driven up prices to $4 a gallon. (This is such a flashback to how...

Ricky Martin gyrated himself towards Washington D.C. in order to speak out against human trafficking (Oh, is that bad now?). But whoooo ayayayayayay! Isn’t he totally el hot-o?! Ugh, can’t a man try to do a little charity work...

More like Oldie Prawn! Right, people? Haha. Isn’t it horrifying when people get old and walk around as if they still deserve it?: It was no laughing matter for film star Goldie Hawn as she was caught on camera...

Baseball players Andy Rodriguez and Andy Pettitte have a close friendship that’s prompted several media outlets and frat boys everywhere to label it a “bromance.” Because dudes touching is totally gay. Let’s have a closer look at PettitteRod: After...

Yesterday Fidel Castro up and quit us like some kind of dead beat daddy with a new hooker in town and the ensuing aftermath spurred the startling realization that no one in America or Cuba really gives a shit...

The New York Times is the 27th news outlet today to let us know that the world’s reaction to Fidel Castro’s resignation is “muted” (read: non-existent.) Even in Havana. The consensus from dissidents, loyal Fidelistas and everyone in between...

The New York Times reports that Jesus Malverde, known as the “Mexican Robin Hood” and the “Patron Saint of Drug Dealers,” is gaining more and more popularity in the U.S. thanks to immigrants and their drug-dealing-thief-worshipping ways: [I]mmigrants have...

The Huffington Post asks whether beauty salons for young girls are a good idea. To which we reply “Little girls, in general, are a bad idea.” But what about when salons can teach girls about other cultures? Cultures like...

People seemed surprised that Latinos, when asked for whom they voted on Super Duper Ultra Mega Tuesday Gigante, were like “the person I thought would make a better President.” Whoa, people. Can you even read?: Asked on Super Duper...

Some lovely and talented dude named Rio Yañez out there in Internetlandia wrote a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece asking, “What would Juno be like with a Latina lead?:” For my part, maybe I would have too much baggage as...

Let’s laugh at FOX reporters as they attempt to discuss Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez’s affinity for coca leaves and paste. Clearly, these people don’t know their cocoa from their coca from a line of coke snorted off an underage...

Election time is upon us once again and, with it, comes a reminder that you, gentle reader, are nothing more than a mass of labels and numbers on a page. You’re a Latino, babyface. And that means nothing, ultimately....

The Baltimore Sun features a piece today advising us U.S. Americans to resist the “linguistic terrorism” of English-only laws. Mmm linguistic terrorism: Linguistic terrorism has plagued children of immigrants and Native Americans for generations. Alberto Alvaro Ríos wrote in...

The Boston Globe published today a photo essay of the happiest places on earth. According to the Globe, researchers at the University of Leicester in the UK recently published the first world map of happiness. [Ed. Note: The Guanabee...

USA Today announces that the Latino celebration of Three Kings Day is finally becoming a part of American culture. How can they tell? A growing number of retailers are promoting the Hispanic tradition of celebrating Three Kings Day every...

When most men are unfaithful to their wives and the mothers of their offspring, people in general are usually not chomping at the bit to venerate them. But most men aren’t Juanes and most people aren’t People en Español,...

The Ottawa Citizen wrote a story today about the demise of a tradition that’s as Mexican as Nopal Pie: The Liquid Lunch. Reporting from Mexico City, Catherine Bremer opens the article with this zinger: The long Mexican business lunch,...

There are quite a few clichés in journalism that we’ve always found a little grating: Lumping women who are both normal-size and overweight as “voluptuous,” “full-figured” or “womanly.” Describing, for that matter, every swell and curve on a woman’s...

The Charlotte Observer today published an “article” that reports how Latinos are stepping out of their bamboo huts and using computers to, like, email and stuff. The article is exploding with unheard of revelations about Latinos and technology, while...

Well-seasoned Miss Puerto Rico, Ingrid Rivera, is still insisting that her evening gown, bathing suit and makeup brush were sabotaged with pepper spray during her recent beauty pageant. And nothing makes for a better case against an unknown mace-wielding...

Political news pundit and “Tucker” host Tucker Carlson was on “Dancing with the Stars.” Were you aware of this? That Tucker danced? On TV? As a star? Lest you’ve forgotten, Tucker offered viewers a little reminder in the form...

Britney Spears’ ex-bodyguard Tony Berretto, in collaboration with News Of The World has released this video declaring his sincere concern over the well-being of Britney’s children. We were left in complete ‘awe’ after watching the video, trying to figure...

The upper classes of Mexico have been enjoying the fruits of America’s southwestern states while simultaneously turning their noses up at its locals since the Conquistadores first raped the Indians, but somehow the New York Times is just finding...

Take a look at the headline that popped up not once, but twice in the newsfeed this afternoon for the Cuban-oriented coverage that constitutes its own section in the Miami Herald: “Mark Cuban’s HDNet to show fights.” Funny thing...

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate who would earn more Latino votes than La Virgen de Guadalupe herself, probably never saw it coming. Some businessman in Minneapolis has sold thousands of the product seen here, called (in a stroke...

An interesting piece popped up in our newsfeed this morning, a retrospective of sorts on all things Hugo Chávez- related that happened last month and prompted Time to call August “one of the wackiest months in Venezuela’s recent history.”...

When the headline “Student punished for ‘white power’ call” popped up in our reader from the Denver Post yesterday, we didn’t pay it much mind. When the same story popped up today under the headline “Student disciplined for ‘white...

After months and months of publicity regarding Jessica Alba’s identity crisis, annoyingly self-referential Entertainment Weekly writer Vanessa Juarez tries to relate to the actress so they can cry ‘woe is us for being ethnically ambiguous.’ The banter is enough...

New York Daily News reporter and self-professed veteran of “old feminist and minority-empowering wars”, Dolores Prida has picked up on one of our favorite trends—the Super Sweet Quinceañera—from a book called Once Upon A Quinceañera-Coming Of Age In The...

We should’ve known what we’d be getting into by reading an article outta the Latino section of the New York Daily News, but its headline of “Guapos wanted” appealed to our egos. (Or made us retch. We can’t remember...

Over the weekend, that bastion of journalistic integrity known as the New York Times and über-exposed gossip blogger Perez Hilton were just sitting in a tree. (We’ll let the darkest part of your imagination run wild with the second...

This week the New York Times churns out the same tired, “wow, a blogger is famous,” angle that everyone else is using to describe Perez Hilton’s “sudden meteoric rise to the top,” (i.e. a Vh1 special.) We were about...

Latino gossip site Lossip (get it?) has announced a recent addition to the cast of “South of the Border,” a Disney production starring Drew Barrymore as a pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua who gets lost in Mexico. (Your family will...

In a truly bizarre story from Reuters, reporter Ed Stoddard spends four pages explaining that, “U.S. agriculture is utterly dependent on migrant labor.” Um, yes? Either we’ve been grossly overestimating the knowledge of the American public on this subject...

We know it’s a little early, but here’s a drinking game: Every time the linked Washington Times article publishes the word, “Mexican,” next to a negative word like, “cartel,” “gangs”, “armed,” “marijuana,” or “violent,” (hint: it’s every time; check...

Bored out of our minds by a slow news day, we came across this odd story about a pair of small-town Ecuadorian parents suing a clinic for separating their identical twins at birth. The parents claim they never saw...

This week, the Los Angeles Times does a great job of updating us on the latest developments in the mayoral scandal while appearing completely above the common journalist vulture. It’s as if they learned from, well, bloggers: “Mr. Mayor,...

The cover story for August’s issue of Glamour features a Jennifer Lopez interview that reads like a 5-page plug of the movie she’s produced, starred in, and promoted for some time now—a salsa-heavy biopic about music legend Hector “La...

Summer’s here and it’s time for outdoor, world music concerts and White people with dreadlocks. In anticipation, the New York Times features a cutting edge trendpiece that reads like a political primer for middle-American retards: This summer, world music...

Today’s online edition of Family Security Matters, the self-proclaimed “National Security Resource for American Families”, features a tasty and ‘exclusive’ op-ed by the publication’s contributing editor. Its title looks like a line out of late ’30s propaganda flick, “Reefer...

File this one under Freudian fuck-up. Scouting for news that is worth our attention, we came across this headline in the Washington City Paper: “Gay, Latino Police Units Not ‘Decentralized’ Yet.” Sounds intriguing right? Except when we read the...