Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo, a minor holiday in Mexico turned into an excuse to binge drink tequila and watery beer with a lime wedge here in the States. I never even heard of it until I heard Buenos Tardes Amigo by Ween (youtube of Ween doing it live, shot by yours truly, a long long time ago). So some high schoolers in Morgan Hill, CA thought it would be a neat idea to all wear the stars and stripes on shirts and bandanas, presumably as a response to this big Mexican celebration which is about as important in Mexico as Arbor Day is here in the states and has been turned into something that it’s not, in order for the booze companies to sell more booze.

Some students were offended by this showing. Instead of just getting over it, they complained, and it wound up that the school principal gave the flag kids the option of turning their shirts inside out or being sent home to become martyrs for the teabagger crowd. Guess which they chose.

See, this is one of those stories where everybody involved is an asshole. The flag kids were assholes for thinking that this would be some great big statement. The kids who were offended are assholes for getting their panties in a bunch over a lame stunt perpetrated by assholes. The principal is neither a prince or a pal (I’ve been wanting an excuse to say that ever since Xander said it to Principal Snider on Buffy way back when),  but instead is an asshole for not telling the offended kids to man up and stop being such a bunch of oversensitive whiney assholes, and for turning a lame stunt into a potential rallying cry for the real racists (who happen to be enormous assholes). The media are assholes for covering this ridiculous story about a bunch of assholes. The teabaggers who will no doubt make this about how they’re all victims of this and that are all a bunch of assholes. And I’m an asshole for keeping it going on my blog which I keep saying isn’t going to be political while taking tiny little pot shots at the teabaggers here and there like some kind of asshole.

So if you want to waste another second on this, here’s the story and here’s a better comment thread about it than this barely-read blog could ever produce.

And now, if you’ve made it this far into this godawful post, here’s your reward… the new trailer for Robert Rodriguez’ upcoming film, Machete!

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