This new immigration bill oozing out of Congress is pretty nasty. It's pretty racist, xenophobic and a whole bunch of other words you could throw in here. But that's not what really strikes me about this situation. It was that protest...

500,000 million people in LA in the streets. Why so many? Because most of them were Latino. We Gringos are fat & lazy. Our idea of protest is forwarding an e-mail or clicking on something at Moveon.org.

Look at the people in Central & South America - when the government messes with them they hit the streets. They know they're gonna get the crap beat out of them, but they're out there anyway. Men, women & children. They freakin stand up for themselves. So if you look at this culturally, it's no wonder so many folks were out in LA...and I bet it wasn't some self-congratulatory fandango like the war protests have become.

Hey, I'm part of this too. I haven't been in a good protest in a while. Have I been organizing? Yes. But it's been very niiiiiiiice. I haven't been threatened with a lawsuit or arrest in quite a while. There's a million things I'd like to be protesting/fighting. Very little of it is in this town. But am I going to leave my sad excuse for a job? No. There's nothing really keeping me here. I've been lulled.

I'm going to be one cranky old dude.

Not every Latino was hitting the streets. I'm sure there are some yes-chicos. Alberto Gonzalez was probably watching it all on Fox News muttering to himself, "F-ing Spics."

Probably. I don't have proof.