Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Tex-Mex unity

Link.

But what occasion, I hear you ask, is so life-affirming, so universally themed, that it can make all the fuss over the documentation and exploitation of immigrants disappear? What could possibly bring together the flags of red, white and blue, and red, white and green?

The answer, of course, is the defeat of the French, at an obscure battle on “Cinco de Mayo”, in 1862.

Hah! Where's my cerveza caliente?

2 comments:

Mr roT said...

Kinda fun, but this is fiction.

Tecumseh said...

What is fiction -- Cinco de Mayo? The Mexicans really did beat the crap out of the French (well, OK, that's almost tautological, but, hey, it's still something), so it sounds to me like a good excuse to have some tacos and beer, no?