Why Does Tonto Have That Bird On His Head? Racism in the New ‘Lone Ranger’

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Alex Yarde discusses the blatant racism in the new Disney film, “The Lone Ranger”.

Fire in Belen, Peru

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Two children are dead and three are missing after a massive fire rips through an impoverished Peruvian community.

Some Good Men Bite

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Through her relationship with her brother, Rachel Peck looks to examine and even change the definition of “good men” in the world.

“Don’t Cry!”: Being a Man in Korea

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What makes boys cry, and when are boys allowed to cry? Turner Wright reports, with examples from South Korea.

Excerpt: ‘An Illustrated Guide to Soccer and Spanish’

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Here’s chapter one, ‘The Basic Concepts in Soccer,’ from Elliot Turner’s ‘An Illustrated Guide to Soccer & Spanish.’

Learning Like a Child: The Pimsleur Foreign Language Program

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Derek Markham discovered that the best way to learn Spanish is to learn it the same way a child does.

Guestpost #3: Myles Valentin – Ten things I've learned from Watching La Liga (Spanish soccer)

Myles Valentin is the co-founder of the blog turned best-selling book Stuff White People Like. He uses the money from it to bet on Spanish soccer. He loves Lionel Messi and appreciates the handsomeness of Cristiano Ronaldo in a non-sexual way. While this is a word blog and not a pic blog, Myles would like [...]

An honorary Mexican

He does other guys… Tio Carlos It was Valentines Day 2004 and I was single.  (That has absolutely nothing to do with the blog post.  I just thought I would throw the info out there.) I woke up that morning, checked my suitcase to make sure I had everything packed, woke up Drama Queen (DQ), [...]