[Editor's Note: The following is from our Mexican based TDV Education Correspondent, Jorge Gato]

I jump across the border between Mexico and the US a few times a year to visit family and stock up on a consumer good or two. (I'm not kidding when I say that I used to get mail delivered faster to my yurt in the Central Asian desert than I do to Mexico.)

A question I frequently get asked by Mexicans is "Why did you come to Mexico?" To which I reply: "I'm still trying to find the answer to that question."

Paramilitary police state? What paramilitary police state?

The reasons to prepare to leave the US just keep piling up!

Tina Turner is turning in her US passport along with her US citizenship and becoming a Swiss citizen. You have to wonder if she heard the whoop of the military helicopter blades all the way across the Atlantic.

You see, dear reader, there's been another combined military and domestic police operations practice run in the USSA.

Well, it's Friday again. We all made it. The President had his re-coronation this week, and all for the low low price of $170 million of your hard-earned tax dollars. God bless the USSA! So happy you put in a 50-hour work week so that O'Bomber can have 42 inauguration balls—despite already having had an inauguration in 2009! And look at Michelle's fabulous bangs!

On to the feedback...

TIJUANA?

Hello Jeff and everyone else at TDV,

[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Justin O’Connell]