The Great Wall of Trump

My teenage son is brilliant.  He asked why no one "get's butt hurt" about the Great Wall of China... as in everybody's butt hurt about Trump's wall, but China's wall is a tourist attraction.

Hadrian's Wall

The Theodosian Walls.

Hundreds of years from now people from all over the world may come to Arizona to see the Great Wall of Trump. It might even become a world heritage site.  Imagine Mexicans shouting "We paid for it!  The tourists belong to us!" Conservationists demanding that the approaches to the Great Wall of Trump be declared a national monument. Yaqui and Tohono O'Odham fighting over the casino rights.

It's times like these that fill me with great sorrow and regret... that The NY Times satirist Russell Baker has retired.

Gigante Gorda Senora

My wife's boss was an unpretentious Irish-Catholic woman of great height and girth.  Devout, she had dedicated her life to her faith and the well being of poor children and their mothers.   With complete indifference to personal gain,  she built a small organization into one of Arizona's largest health care plans. 

On a site visit to a clinic in Tucson some years ago, she arrived early for the meeting and the receptionists asked her to take a seat until the director could see her.  She sat down and patiently began to wait.   The young receptions started to speak to each other in Spanish.  Forgot to mention that my wife's boss grew up in Chile and was a fluent Spanish speaker.  The receptionists were commenting on the fat lady's height and immense waistline.  Instead of being offended,  my wife's boss sat and listened.  Never said a word... until she got back to Phoenix and told her staff what she thought was an amusing story about the young women who thought Spanish was a secret code.

Adrian Fontes: Rock Star

Adrian Fontes, ROCK STAR.  

What dads will do for the love of their daughters.   I took my 14-year-old to the Hillary-Bernie rally at Central High on Sunday.  Hillary couldn't make it so Adrian filled in and warmed up the crowd.   He did a hell of a job.  He's what Elizabeth Warren would be if she spent four years in the Marines.

What I don't get is why a bomb thrower is running for county recorder.  Maybe he'll dress up the poll workers in pink coveralls?  

Bernie!  Bernie!  My daughter was thrilled.  I was less thrilled cause I really had to pee by the time Adrian stopped talking and Bernie started.

To add to the excitement my daughter even got to see real live placard carrying communists as we marched out the Central High exit.   I haven't seen any of those, dead or alive, since the Vietnam War... Arizona continues to amaze and surprise.