This has been an extraordinarily eventful week, particularly in Eric Hoffer terms; in that one should always be aware of leading indicators. This Blogger’s Mexican-American, Hispanic, Latino, Latinx friends tell me that the most eventful event this past week was two out of three of the leading Democratic candidates for President, Senator Amy Klubuchar of Minnesota, and Billionaire Tom Steyer (think ARTIE ZIFF from THE SIMPSONS), could not, in their quest to lead the world, name the President of America’s largest trading partner, a nation which guards America’s Southern border, a nation of 110 million people just across the Rio Grande. “Democratic presidential hopefuls Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer were stumped when asked during a televised interview in Nevada to name the Mexican president.  Klobuchar, Steyer and fellow 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg were asked during one-on-one interviews with the Spanish-language station Telemundo on Thursday night if they knew the name of the ...

Judy and this Blogger had flown from Cairo into Luxor, to catch the river boat up the Nile to Aswan. We were lodged in this wonderful,  old British Empire era hotel, with horses and carriages lined up in front. We would take the carriages to the KARNAK  Temple Complex, where, hand in hand, we would stroll at sunset where Alexander the Great walked. One night, we shared an Ouzo with the Greek Riverboat Captain, who was going to take us Up The Nile.  Ah, so Romantic, so Byronic. It could have been 1820. One night, while we were sound asleep, there was an insistent and incessant knock on the room door. ‘ ALL GUESTS TO THE MAIN BALLROOM.” We dressed and joined the herd of tourists massing in the ballroom. They sorted us out by passports, clustering the nationalities together. When it was sorted out, all the guests were lined up, around the room  against the wall; the Egyptian hotel workers, and the Egyptian river crew who had joined us for dinner the night before , h...