DEAR MEXICAN: The word "cholo" means "mixed race" or "mestizo." So isn't using cholo to refer to gangbangers or other delinquents racist? I'm Cuban, but please don't group me with idiots such as Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio.
DEAR CUBAN POCHA: There are multiple meanings of "cholo." The word derives from the Nahautl xolo, and its first documented definition was in Alonso de Molina's epic 1571 Nahuatl-English dictionary, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana; there, he said the Aztecs took it as "paje, moço, criado o eƒclavo" ("page, waiter, servant or slave"). Spaniards being Spaniards, they applied the term to refer to the offspring of an Indian and a mestizo. Mexico being Mexico, it then became a palabra to apply to lower-class people, which spread across Latin America and into the United States. Gabachos being gabachos, they took cholo and made it into a derogatory slur applicable to all undesirable Mexicans. And pochos being pochos, they reappropriated cholo, then dumped it on gang members, not realizing that they were essentially calling the homies "dirty Mexicans." Don't you just love how we don't know our history?
(OCWeekly.com)
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Good For Her!
Meet the woman who hit a record-setting 363-yard(!) drive
The former golfer at East Tennessee State University won the ladies division of the Rockwell Blast -- part of the World Long Drive Championship schedule -- and she did it in impressive style. Garner's winning drive? A 363-yard clout at Lakeside Golf Course in West Bountiful, Utah.
Just a reminder, Byeong An won the long drive contest at the PGA with a "bomb" of 347 yards. That's weak sauce.
(GolfDigest.com)
The former golfer at East Tennessee State University won the ladies division of the Rockwell Blast -- part of the World Long Drive Championship schedule -- and she did it in impressive style. Garner's winning drive? A 363-yard clout at Lakeside Golf Course in West Bountiful, Utah.
Just a reminder, Byeong An won the long drive contest at the PGA with a "bomb" of 347 yards. That's weak sauce.
(GolfDigest.com)
Nike Golf's Shocker
Nike Exits Golf Club Business, Tiger Woods to Search for New Clubs
Nike is exiting the clubmaking business.
And Tiger Woods's golf bag is going to have a different look whenever he returns.
In a shocking announcement Wednesday afternoon, the sports equipment
and apparel giant said that it intends to refocus its efforts on golf
shoes and clothing, and away from clubs, balls and bags.
(Golf.com)
Nike is exiting the clubmaking business.
And Tiger Woods's golf bag is going to have a different look whenever he returns.
(Golf.com)
Testing Will Never Keep Up With The Drug Creators
The Drugs Won: The Case for Ending the Sports War on Doping
[A] small group of heretics—academics, mostly, but also people like Logan—have started to challenge that view. The war on doping, they contend, has done far more harm than good: wasting money, retarding medicine, fostering corruption, and trampling on athletes' rights and dignity while failing to protect their health.
(Vice.com)
[A] small group of heretics—academics, mostly, but also people like Logan—have started to challenge that view. The war on doping, they contend, has done far more harm than good: wasting money, retarding medicine, fostering corruption, and trampling on athletes' rights and dignity while failing to protect their health.
(Vice.com)
Did They Choose The Right City In Your State?
The Most Obnoxiously Rich Suburb of America's 35 Biggest Cities
Las Vegas: Summerlin, Nevada
- Population: 100,000 (2010 estimate)
- Exciting and pompous fact: What's pompous in Summerlin, stays in Summerlin.
Is Summerlin actually in Las Vegas? Las Vegas and
its "suburbs" are a confusing entity, all kind of linked together in one
major way, like your and everyone else's next blood test results when
you enter one of those giant casino hotel pool parties. What we do know
about the area is that it is a master-planned community, which is
basically developer-speak for giant homes on square lots and at least
three golf courses within easy Bentley-ing distance. Of course, because
this is Vegas and everything is 40 times bigger, the population of this
"suburb" is still hugggggeeee, especially compared to most of these
other places. But yeah, if you live around Vegas and you want to
out-obnoxious a place where it's somewhat normal to see 50-year-old
grandmas wearing scrunched mini-dresses at a club, start here. -- K.A.
Los Angeles: Santa Clarita, California
- Population: 181,557
- Exciting and pompous fact: It officially rebranded itself as "Awesometown" in 2010.
Imagine Los Angeles in all its vapid, lipsticked
emptiness. Now imagine its churchgoing cousin with a minivan, who
actually looks like those women in the Clorox Bleach Pen commercials by
day, and an unfiltered Botox "after" picture by night. Suburban
indoctrination here starts in high school, where 14-year-olds with
driver's permits are taught that lifted trucks with Mammoth decals make
the loudest mating call, and perfect prom curls are somehow the everyday
beauty standard. It's zero surprise that Disney Channel starlets and that werewolf from Twilight all hail from this gilded 'burb.
Sure, some of the West Coast's most talented chefs
are just a 35-minute drive away, but soccer-mom fears of what lies
beyond the canyons (traffic! Liberals! A/C-less bathrooms!) mean that
chains like Macaroni Grill are relegated to "destination restaurant"
status. But life here is optimistic. Everyone is cordial and "is middle
class," even if said middle-classer might live in ritzier Stevenson
Ranch, where homes push the million mark. Closely related to the
humblebrag, this dishonest, self-serving version of modesty is probably
what most people associate with Los Angeles. Say this for LA and its
most noxious suburb: they truly deserve one another. -- Michelle No, production assistant
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