“Ain’t That America,” written and performed by John Mellencamp.
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Cinco de Mayo, the 5th of May, is the biggest Mexican holiday in the entire United States. Oh sure, the holiday commemorates the 1862 Battle of Puebla, so kids in that Mexican city get the day off to watch a parade, and gringo-infested beach resorts may get a little loco, but the rest of Mexico carries on as usual.
North of the border, it’s a different story. The community-based Mexican-American celebrations of the Sixties were co-opted by marketers for big brewers, tequila importers, and mega-food purveyors. In other words, it’s St. Patrick’s Day with mariachis. Is this a great country, or what?
More:
“Cinco de Mayo: A History Obscured by Beers and Burritos,” Jason Ruiz, Long Beach Post
“U.S. Marketers Turn Cinco de Mayo Into Pan-Ethnic National Celebration, Joel Millman, Wall Street Journal
“How Corona Made Cinco de Mayo an American Holiday,” Adam Teeter, VinePair
“Does Mexico Celebrate Cinco De Mayo? Find Out How Holiday Became Mainstream,” Susmita Baral, Latin Times
“Mexicans don’t understand why you are celebrating Cinco de Mayo,” Allison Jackson, GlobalPost
“Why is Cinco de Mayo More Popular in America Than in Mexico?” Brian Greene, U.S. News & World Report
“Gringo de Mayo,” Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly
“Cinco de Mayo: A New American Holiday,” Cesar M. Melgoza,Huffington Post
“Cinco De Mayo: Whose Holiday Is It, Anyway?” NPR
“How Not to Be Awful This Cinco de Mayo,” Kelly Williams Brown,Daily Beast
Note: ¿Chilaquiles? Mira aquí.
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“Little Pink Houses,” written and performed by John Mellencamp.
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“Gun Shop,” a short 2019 film by Patrick Smith. 2,328 guns in 90 seconds @24 frames per second. There are 393 million firearms owed by civilians in the US, 1.2 guns per person, children included. It would take a bit longer to show them all.
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Find more statistics at Statista
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Hope you enjoyed your extra hour of sleep last night (in Europe, make that “last week“). America has now moved from “Daylight Saving Time” to “Standard Time,” except in Arizona, which stays in Standard Time all year long. Arizona also doesn’t believe in Climate Change, Water Fluoridation, International Law, or Evolution, either. But wait:
“The fall transition to standard time is linked to an increase in crime that costs the country billions of dollars annually. Transitions into and out of daylight saving time are linked to disrupted sleep patterns, increased heart attack risk, and an uptick in fatal car accidents.
… a team of researchers from the departments of psychiatry and political science at the universities of Aarhus, Copenhagen and Stanford added another formal complaint to the indictment against clock-turning: The autumn shift to standard time appears to be closely linked to a jump in depression diagnoses around this time of year.”
— “Turning back the clock 1 hour takes a serious toll on your mental health,” Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post
More:
“The EU is ditching daylight saving time because it’s what the people want,” Edmund Heaphy, Quartz
“Can’t We Just Stop Resetting Clocks Twice a Year?” Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg
“Morocco abruptly drops clock change,” BBC News
“For the last time, daylight saving time isn’t worth the trouble it causes,” Laura Grant, Quartz
“Daylight saving time ends Sunday: 6 things to know about ‘falling back,’” Brian Resnick, Vox
“Daylight Saving Time as Americans know it was instituted by corporate lobbies, not farmers,” Zoë Schlanger, Quartz
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“… there are now fewer days between mass shootings and more fatalities. In the 1990s, an estimated 159 people were killed in mass shootings. That figure rose to 171 people in the 2000s. So far this decade, at least 381 people have been killed in mass shootings.”
“… less deadly mass shootings rarely receive the same degree of media attention because they simply happen so frequently. The last mass shooting prior to Sunday happened just four days earlier, when Scott Allen Ostrem, 47, walked into a Walmart in Denver and fatally shot two men and a woman, before leaving the store and driving away.”
— “Not your imagination: mass shootings now happen more frequently in the US,” Mona Chalabi, The Guardian
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Hope you enjoyed your extra hour of sleep last night (in Europe, make that “last week“). America has now moved from “Daylight Saving Time” to “Standard Time,” except in Arizona, which stays in Standard Time all year long. Arizona also doesn’t believe in Climate Change, Water Fluoridation, International Law, or Evolution, either. But wait:
“The fall transition to standard time is linked to an increase in crime that costs the country billions of dollars annually. Transitions into and out of daylight saving time are linked to disrupted sleep patterns, increased heart attack risk, and an uptick in fatal car accidents.
… a team of researchers from the departments of psychiatry and political science at the universities of Aarhus, Copenhagen and Stanford added another formal complaint to the indictment against clock-turning: The autumn shift to standard time appears to be closely linked to a jump in depression diagnoses around this time of year.”
— “Turning back the clock 1 hour takes a serious toll on your mental health,” Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post
More:
“For the last time, daylight saving time isn’t worth the trouble it causes,” Laura Grant, Quartz
“Daylight saving time ends Sunday: 6 things to know about ‘falling back,’” Brian Resnick, Vox
“Daylight Saving Time as Americans know it was instituted by corporate lobbies, not farmers,” Zoë Schlanger, Quartz
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