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The Boston Herald is Boston’s second newspaper, and for those who live in the city, it is seen as just a tabloid with car ads that rarely covers actual news with a journalistic eye, choosing instead for the sensational. Such is the case of a story the Herald published today by Chris Cassidy. The title? […]

Hey, it must be that time of year when BBC Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has to offend someone, and today Clarkson’s target is Puerto Rico. According to the Daily Star, Clarkson decided to offend boricuas by basically calling the island “a crime-ridden hellhole.” Clarkson decided to crap on Puerto Rico, in response to a […]

You have got to be kidding us. The following bilingual ad by TIDE, which launched last fall and which recently aired CNN, has now become a online nativist symbol of all that is “wrong” about the United States. Yes, a bilingual ad about laundry detergent. This is sad, people. Here is the commercial. Run away, […]

The Onion just needs to stop sometimes. Hiding behing “smart humor.” They failed again. This is satire? Seriously? Really? Here is the “joke:” BOSTON—In the midst of a widespread manhunt that has put the city of Boston on lockdown, CNN released a series of photographs today depicting the three obese Mexican women it claims are […]

You know it would happen, but we really didn’t think it would be so quick, especially since the drama in the Boston area is still ongoing and chaotic. But as reported by the HuffPost’s Elise Foley, “Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), speaking at the first Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform Friday, tied the issue to […]

Yesterday it was Iowa Rep. Steve King who got all nutty by using the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombings as his “proof” that immigration security needs to be tighter. Today King was joined by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert (R). This is what Salon reported today: Louie Gohmert joined Steve King in warning against passing immigration reform […]

So the Mexican Barbie controversy (which started from a blog post by the very cool Laura Martínez) got Mattel to respond: The Barbie Collector Dolls of the World line was launched in 1980 and is the largest and longest-running series in the history of the Barbie brand. Each doll wears an ensemble inspired by the […]

UPDATE, April 18, 2013, 8:32 AM EST: We spoke with Phil Berne, Marketing Manager for Technical Media at Samsung Mobile. Berne shared the following official response from the company: “Samsung is not offering any such ringtones on our mobile devices.” We suspected that, since the ringtone comes from third parties, and in an open environment […]

This story came via Deadspin, which found it at the Alburquerque Journal. The New Mexico paper reported that the coaches of a local high school baseball team from Las Cruces planned “to file a formal complaint against an umpire who allegedly told a Hispanic player to stop speaking Spanish during a game in Alamogordo on […]

Yesterday we got a direct message from @flyawaymari. She included a link that we thought was an April Fools’ joke. We checked it out. It wasn’t. The link took us to a site called Mexican-Workers.com and it provided “insight”into Mexican workers and Mexican culture. The questions were intended for those American companies who need help […]

The craziness continues. UPDATE: Some people thought that this entire fuss was about the late Hugo Chávez. Seriously. UPDATE: Google has responded. We enjoy celebrating holidays at Google but, as you may imagine, it’s difficult for us to choose which events to highlight on our site. Sometimes for a given date we feature an historical […]

Here is what Talking Points Memo just published at 11:35 AM EST today: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) offered a sharply worded reprimand for Rep. Don Young on Friday, demanding the Alaska congressman apologize for using a racial epithet to characterize migrant workers. “Congressman Young’s remarks were offensive and beneath the dignity of the office […]

UPDATE, March 29, 2013, 4:45 pm EST: Young issued another apology. UPDATE, March 29, 2013, 2pm EST: KRBD responded to our questions about its broadcast. UPDATE, March 29, 2013, 12:30 pm EST: Speaker John Boehner issued a very strong statement calling Young’s comments “offensive” and “beneath the dignity of the office [Young] holds.” Guess Alaska […]

It is getting to be that even after good things happen to immigrants —like winning $338 million in the Powerball— you still have to hear the hate. This just in from our friends at HuffPost Latino Voices. Pedro Quezada, the Dominican immigrant who seems to have become the happiest person in the world after recently winning […]

File this one under the “We Have Now Seen Everything” category. In a local news article from southwestern Mississippi, reporter Caleb Bedillion was writing a dry standard story about corporate tax breaks. Rather boring stuff until you get to this part of the story, which quoted local county official Nolan Williamson. Wait for this one: […]

Today in Kansas, a House committee hearing was held to discuss a bill that would deny in-state tuition for some undocumented immigrant students. It got interesting, according to local reports. First up, Republican state Rep. Allan Rothlisberg. Here is what one article reported: [Rothlisberg] talked about drug cartels filling the prison system and said he was offended […]

This one comes from HuffPost Latino Voices: A New Mexico state representative wants to keep Hispanic history books out of public schools, following in the footsteps of some of her conservative colleagues in Arizona. New Mexico state Rep. Antonio Maestas (D-Albuquerque) proposed a memorial on Monday praising diversity in the state’s curricula and slammed Tucson’s […]

Sometimes we just think that creative Hollywood types just take a spinning wheel of ideas and just let the wheel decide, no matter what the outcome will be. No matter how much it makes your cringe. Such is the case of Syfy’s “Chupacabra vs. The Alamo” original movie. Starring Erik Estrada. Of course. Even if […]

Yes, familia, even opinion writers in blue state Massachusetts show their cultural ignorance once in a while. Take the case of The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist who today penned the following opinion piece, “Americans speak every language, but only English unites us.” The column focuses on Gabriel Gómez, a second-generation Colombian American […]

Today Terra.com reported that an ATM at “El Ocho de Blanco,” a bar in San Juan, Puerto Rico, printed a receipt with the sentence “WE HATE FAGS,” causing some in the island’s LGBT community to criticize the bar and the ATM owner for the offensive message. The bar’s management insisted that it had no control […]

Is mocking someone with cancer funny? If you are on the Internet the last two months, there have been thousands of tweets and memes that have made fun of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who is dying from cancer. That is bound to happen, and most of the content being shared is pretty tasteless. However, does […]