Monthly Archives: March 2012

The great dog culture divide [ CCT 20 March 2012 ]

A persistent story in local papers focusses on The Great Dog Culture Divide. I don’t know what percentage of all the space in local papers is taken up with dog controversy stories but it’s not negligible. There was a letter in a local paper late last summer about why dogs should not be allowed on […]

What should we learn from Mexican suffering? [ CCT 6 March 2012 ]

Time to come clean: I’ve been in Mexico. As much as anyone actually gets away these days, given the internet apron strings. My main motivation, of course, like that of many another gringo, was to get away from the northern winter. But I’ve been noticing that the warmer more clement weather comes with, of all […]