La generación siguiente de assholes está aquí

DOTOF™ to my Blog-bud Tena from Texas, watching in amazement, in situ, as the comedy unfolds and the next contingent of pushy white people try to muscle in on the action. In Nuevo Mexico, you never see the ambush til it's sprung. The demeanor doesn't change, til one time, they got you surrounded and there's no easy way out...

I think of northern New Mexico as "America's Afghanistan."


Every indigenous rebellion against the "liberators" has begun in or near Taos, from the Pueblo revolt of 1680, to the "Costa" rebellion of the 1840s (in which Gov. Bent was murdered), to Tijerina in Tres Piedras in the '60s of the last century...

A restive people here-abouts...animated by the uneraseable legends of the bandit hero, which are remnants of Iberian resistance to Islam in the 15th Century.

The best thing about living north of Santa Fe izzat you're never really very far from the the 21st Century...in a fast enough car...