Of guns, bigotry, and xenophobia—the (not-so-lone) Texas Ranger rides again!

Be sure to read this news story here BEFORE you've had your lunch today. It is sure to put a bad taste in your mouth, and will no doubt stand to be the clear front-runner in the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog's chingado...uh, I mean, gabacho cabrón...oops, that is to say, pendejo of the week award:

Texas gun training facility bars non-Christians, Obama voters, Muslims, "liberals," and socialists from gun training

I Get Emails From Time to Time...

...asking me why I dwell on the history of racial representation in America. I "stumbled-upon" this picture tonight--a living ocular, semiotic trace of the history of race-hatred in the American South.... look at it:


here's the original sourcelink. I want to write about this face--the ecstacy of racial-traced hate is a semiotic project that encompasses lynchings and minstrel shows and Hollywood films.



Not to knock our fellow primates, but the physiognomy of fear and loathing seems to reach across the species. More on this in Eyegiene, proposal presently in development for UTPress.