Entries Tagged as 'History'

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

It’s Thanksgiving…But Y’all Still Expect Me to Post, Don’t You?

91 people have already checked this site today. 91 on Thanksgiving. What is with you people?
I suppose that means you will be expecting a new post.
Well, I actually don’t have one. But, you may want to read this account of the Southwest’s first Thanksgiving, which happened along the Rio Grande in 1598, predating our friendly […]

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

And They Wonder Why Hispanics Aren’t Falling Over Themselves to Vote for Them

A chant from some of the Drake supporters last night:
Vote for the American name
So, what exactly are y’all saying there?
Funny thing, an early appearance of the name “Grijalva” in our little part of the Americas was way back in 1775, when a guy named Juan Pablo de Grijalva was part of the Juan Bautista de […]

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