Results tagged “mexico”

Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day. Hell, it's not even a holiday celebrated in all of Mexico. (Wikipedia actually has a decent explanation here.) But, here in America, we like to use the holiday as an excuse to get wasted anyway. (It's like St. Patrick's Day, but with tequila.)

We reported on Tuesday about swine flu's appearance in NJ. Well, according to the Inquirer, Philadelphia is sending a sample to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for further testing. The 2-year-old subject of the inquiry has apparently recovered, but no one knows yet whether or not the family had been to Mexico, or even whether or not anyone else may have contracted the illness. Doctors are hoping the child had a case of seasonal, not-named-after-an-animal influenza, but only the CDC's tests can confirm that.

Why did the Phillyist cross the road? To get to...

As a straight American man, I believe that the current ruling by California lawmakers to legalize gay marriage is a mistake that will ruin this great American nation of ours! Yet, as a straight American man, I am not allowed to disagree with what the liberal, New York, Hollywood, cheese-eating, French-speaking, Oprah Book Club Reading, media-istas say is acceptable.