The Fall of our Ugly, Toadying Mexican Attorney General

He might have been the face of all our tomorrows--the 7nth wonder of the Chicano/a universe.

In the best of all possible worlds.

Instead, he was a sycophant and a stooge; a creep and a cretin; a criminal and a fool.

As Alberto Gonzales rides off into the sunset, the shadows of Abu Ghraib lighting the way, let us pause for a moment of silence.

Of all the least seductive hallucinations of a "Mexican" in the imagination of America, let this one fade and fade fast.

adios Gonzales, pinche buey!

Memo

UPDATE

A great, short piece regarding Justice Department employees response to Gonzales's exit is now online.

"Seedy Gonzales" An On the Road Posting from Oberlin College

Here I am in lovely Oberlin, Ohio, a guest of the dynamic student organization, La Alianza Latina, on remote broadcast from the Mudd Library (rumored by local chismosas--can you say Marisól LeBron?--to be designed as an architecturally salacious, ersatz pudendum!). Esconsed from the elements in Mudd perusing emails, I've discovered that my Studio City, California correspondent Josie Nericcio, film-school, sound editor (Technicolor!) y mi hermana sent me the following link from the Daily Show entitled "Seedy Gonzales." As Tex[t]-Mex traffics in the universe of all things Speedy, it is fitting that these visual memes appear here: