They’re on guard all across Los Angeles — the dedicated officers of L.A. Illegal Canadian Enforcement (LA-ICE) — keeping us safe from the border-crashing Canuckians hordes of the Great White North. In this episode, the LA-ICE team investigates a motorist suspected of Driving While Canadian.
Forget that ‘Duck’ guy, Steve Yamamoto is a Free Speech Hero (video)
You can exercise your First Amendment rights as a homophobic racist fool on A&E or as an anti-corporate viral video dude on the Internets. You be the judge.
A Chicago employee of the Safeway/Dominick’s supermarket chain (which is closing 72 stores eliminating 6000 jobs) was suspended after he posted this YouTube video — Thanks, Safeway — portraying the store closings as a vicious attack by space aliens.
Steve Yamamoto was suspended Saturday, when he showed up for his last day at work.
Mas…Forget that ‘Duck’ guy, Steve Yamamoto is a Free Speech Hero (video)
‘Pinches UFOS! I’m gonna put this sh*t on YouTube’ (NSFW video)
An anonymous Palacios, TX man and his friends were so stoked by this encounter last month with UFOs that he uploaded his first YouTube video, shot on his cheap-ass Galaxy Note 2 [NSFW language.]
He also reported his encounter to the National UFO Reporting Center:
Mas…‘Pinches UFOS! I’m gonna put this sh*t on YouTube’ (NSFW video)
New Year Ñews: Local man says Obama stole his American Dream
(PNS reporting from EL PASO) Jason Morales finally figured out why his “get up and go” got up and went, he told friends at Hoopy Frood’s on New Year’s Eve, and all clues point to President Barack Obama.
“President Afrika Hussein Bambata is the worst president in this country’s history,” he announced to the teeming North Mesa Street establishment after his fourth Blue Moon with an orange wedge, “and he has robbed me of my chance at the American dream.”
Mas…New Year Ñews: Local man says Obama stole his American Dream
New Year means new veladoras with Saint Miley of Twerk (toons)
On New Year, don’t curse the darkness, homies. Instead, light up a candle with the images of Saint Christopher Walken and/or Saint Miley Cyrus of Twerk.
The Saint Nicholas Cage matched pair is perfect for the Christmas season we think:
Mas…New Year means new veladoras with Saint Miley of Twerk (toons)
Have a chill 2014! (video)
Have a chill 2014, and and may the only ICE you encounter be the ice in your adult beverages.
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Who will you kiss at the stroke of midnight? (video)
Happy New Year? Ring out the old, ring in the new — who will you be kissing when the clock strikes 12?
Eddie Murphy (Trading Places) Video: Merry New Year!
Eddie Murphy, always fly, wishes everyone a Merry New Year! Beef jerky?
A Very Merry Mexican New Year from Sesame Street (video)
Hitting a piñata until the goodies inside fall out is hard work, but somebody’s got to do it. Happy New Year from Sesame Street!
‘Happy New Year Baby’ from The Sisters (East Los 1965)
It’s 1965 and big hair and girl groups are all the rage.
In East LA, sisters Rosella, Ersi and Mary Arvizu, who had been singing and playing music together all their lives, thought they had the right stuff to be the next Supremes — even before there were Supremes. They call themselves The Sisters.
¡Wachale! POCHO Public Service New Year 2014 Punctuation Alert
The tilde — don’t leave home without it! Please share!
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Mas…¡Wachale! POCHO Public Service New Year 2014 Punctuation Alert
News Blooper of the Year: Sabrina Rodriguez, baboon friend (video)
Fox 40 (Sacramento) reporter Sabrina Rodriguez made a friendly baboon’s day at the Lodi Grape Festival.
Could be worse — she coulda been Gustavo Aldomovar:
Mas…News Blooper of the Year: Sabrina Rodriguez, baboon friend (video)
Epistle to the Internets: ‘Jesus Had A Jewish Mother’ (toon)
“Mom, how many Jews does it take to change a lightbulb?”
“Don’t worry about me, Sammy, I’ll just sit here in the dark.” [RIMSHOT.]
Was it any different for Jesus of Nazareth and his Jewish mother Mary?
Cartoonista Idan Schneider answers the kvetching question as the toon continues here: Jesus Had A Jewish Mom.
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Mas…Epistle to the Internets: ‘Jesus Had A Jewish Mother’ (toon)
Hermes and the ‘Futurama’ crew wish you a Happy Kwanzaa (video)
Culture, food, history, tradition and humanoids from the future join the Kwanzaa party at Hermes’ house.
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Mas…Hermes and the ‘Futurama’ crew wish you a Happy Kwanzaa (video)
Please dispose of your Christmas tree properly (video)
There’s a right way and a wrong way to get rid of your Christmas tree. This how-to video should help.
A message on ‘El Contestador (The Answering Machine)’ (NSFW video)
WTF? It’s an old answering machine — a gift from Mom — with a disturbing voicemail message from Abuelita. What to do? [NSFW adult language en Espanish.]
NASA 2013 Highlights: From Earth to Deep Espace (video)
Oh my God — it’s full of stars!
Oy vey! It’s ‘Christmastime for the Jews’ (SNL music video)
Oy vey! From SNL, it’s diva Darlene Love’s classic rock operatic anthropological study of how non-Christians deal with/avoid/cope with the biggest (second biggest?) Christian holy day of the year.
Mas…Oy vey! It’s ‘Christmastime for the Jews’ (SNL music video)
A very special color Christmas with the Ricardos: ‘I Love Lucy’ (video)
America’s favorite interracial family — Lucy, and Desi and Little Ricky — have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do as they get ready to welcome Christmas.
POCHO wishes you a Merry Christmas (toon)
Merry Christmas from the Pochodores: Lalo Alcaraz, Jefe-in-Chief; Dennis Wilen AKA Comic Saenz, Jefe de Editorial; Sara Inés Calderón, Subcommandanta del Ñews; Victor Payan, Subcommandante de la Cultura; Beto Mesta AKA Eres Nerd, Texas Burro Jefe; Santino J. Rivera, Florida Burro Jefe; Elise Roedenbeck, New Jack City Burro Jefe (Emeritus); Melanie Ruiz, Director of Marketing; Al Madrigal, Migrant Editor.
Jesus Re-Branded: ‘Capitalism is the reason for the season’ (video)
Push the Sacred Heart of this Re-Branded Jesus Action Figure and he’ll tell you the New Gospel:
You can both serve God and money — go forth and profit. The love of money is at the root of … all successful entrepreneurs. If they’re hungry, sell them something to eat!
On sale now at a mall near you.
(I’m dreaming of a) ‘Pulp Christmas’ (NSFW video)
Do you know what they call Santa Claus in Italy? [NSFW adult language.]
What’s it like growing up named ‘Jesús’? (LatinoUSA audio)
In Latin America, it’s a name like any other. But here in the U.S., Jesús is a name that could still raise an eyebrow. So Latino USA producer Michael Simon Johnson spoke with a handful of Jesúses to find out what it’s like to grow up with the holiest name in the book.
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Mas…What’s it like growing up named ‘Jesús’? (LatinoUSA audio)
MEX A&E suspends ‘Guac Dynasty’ jefe after hate Tweet
(PNS reporting from MEXICO CITY) Felipe Roberto, star of the reality show Guac Dynasty, which follows the Roberto clan of rude and crude avocado wranglers through their struggle with weeds, bugs and family dysfunction, has been suspended by the Mexican Arte y Entretenimiento TV network (MEX A&E) after his hateful Tweet about Americans went viral, PNS has learned.
Roberto told his 3,827 Twitter followers that he was flying to Los Angeles for Christmas and he hoped he “didn’t get the gays” from the “Hollywood maricons.”
