Cuban By Accident

Happy New Year! Superfan Ed C. from Florida wrote in a few days ago to see if his list of Cuban New Year’s Eve traditions matched up with Rita’s. Black-eyed peas? Resolutions? Gunfire? Not for our fav...

2 Jan 202437min

It's gotten to the point where Florida's Governor deserves nothing more than to return to governing his state back in to the ground or toward new heights of Christian (in name only) Glory (depending o...

26 Nov 202329min

You decide. Nikki Haley's recent surge in the polls leading up to the first round of primaries has been impressive enough to (further) derail DeSantis while also revealing her to be notably deft in re...

26 Nov 202327min

Conspiracy theorist? Anti-Vaxxer? Crackpot? Embarrassment? Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been called all that and more - by the mainstream media and members of his family. He's also...

2 Okt 202349min

BioTech Billionaire. Entrepreneur. Trump cheerleader-apologist and smooth-talking GOP Presidential candidate who's star has begun shining more brightly along the winding road to the primaries. Whateve...

15 Sep 202334min

Given the growing number of octogenarian politicians in the U.S., the two frontrunners in the 2024 Presidential election being foremost, we're not sure what kind of erection can be achieved, so we're ...

7 Sep 202335min

Her granddaughter's 15th birthday sends Rita ready down memory lane, recounting her first quinceañera back in Cuba, and lamenting (just a bit) the production the coming-of-age tradition has become for...

20 Aug 202355min

I recently read a book review in The Atlantic entitled “What It Feels Like When Fascism Start.” The book was written in the late 1930’s by Lion Feuchtwanger, one of Germany’s best-known historical fic...

16 Jan 202338min