Gary Mounce

Edinburg

Journalist at Rio Grande Guardian

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Mounce: Nuremberg and Santayana: Brave Students and UTRGV – Rio Grande Guardian

4 days ago | riograndeguardian.com | Gary Mounce

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Muchas gracias, Mark Reagan. Gracias for the good news about brave students in our midst (MyRGV, 16 Apr 25). Four international students, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, abruptly had visas revoked. They just “filed a federal lawsuit in Brownsville, against the US Department of Homeland Security.” Those students hail from Mexico—not surprising—but also from Nepal and Iran.
Mounce: "Who Will Save You?" – Rio Grande Guardian

1 week ago | riograndeguardian.com | Gary Mounce

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Think you’re safe? Think Trump can’t find you in the Rio Grande Valley? Think again. Now it’s not just immigrants; it’s students, here at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Texas A&M and all over the nation (Omar Zapata, My Rio Grande Valley, 10th April, 2025). Nine students with visas revoked here at UTRGV. No reasons given. My special reason for feeling the pain?
Mounce: The Evil Men Do: Down with Mexicans? – Rio Grande Guardian

2 weeks ago | riograndeguardian.com | Gary Mounce

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mexico has a memorable dicho, or saying: “No Hay Mal que Dure Cien Anos, Ni Gente Quien lo Aguante.”So many of the good folks in this Rio Grande Valley of Texas are bi-lingual and may need no translation. But, just in case: There is not an evil that can last 100 years, nor people who will put up with it. The evil is all around us. It was here, in Germany, in the last century.
Mounce: “T’aint “Funny, McGee”: Humor Not Working – Rio Grande Guardian

1 month ago | riograndeguardian.com | Gary Mounce

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Only those my age might remember that laugh-line. It’s from Molly (in her Wistful Vista home, via the popular radio’s Johnson Wax Program, “Fibber McGee and Molly”, from 1940-1959). Molly would lament “t’aint funny, McGee” as her fumbling husband, “Fibber,” was overwhelmed by the contents tumbling out, as he unwittingly–for the umpteeth time–opened the door of their over-stuffed closet.
Mounce: Tortillas and Tanks: Rio Grande Valley Disrupted – Rio Grande Guardian

1 month ago | riograndeguardian.com | Gary Mounce

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The ancient, famous tortilla: Aztec invented, in one single item: food, container, napkin (and, if left to harden, frisbie?). What is more “Valley” (as in Rio Grande Valley of Texas) than the tortilla? What (plus mole poblano inside, or melted cheese outside, etc.) can serve better to bring us together, on either side of the Rio Grande River? Well, perhaps threats to those who make and serve tortillas?
Mounce: 1984—Redux – Rio Grande Guardian

1 month ago | riograndeguardian.com | Gary Mounce

“War is Peace!” “Slavery is Freedom!” “Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor!” Whoops, I added that last demand, riffing on slogans from the dark tale of the near future, the alarming Nineteen Eighty-four (1984), by George Orwell, 1949. 1984 was banned in the Soviet Union. Strange, it hasn’t been banned, (as yet) in the U.S. But just wait.
Mounce: Bobby! Bobby! Bobby! – Rio Grande Guardian

2 months ago | riograndeguardian.com | Gary Mounce

Hear that? “Bobby! Bobby! Bobby!” The acclaim of a mob of adoring, young college women? No. The attempt to convey affection, to evoke memories of the real Bobby Kennedy, former Attorney General and former U. S. Senator, assassinated in 1968!It is a term now used frequently, nauseatingly, by numerous Republican Congresspersons, fawning over Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of Bobby Kennedy. They use it to pretend they know him, to pretend they are his friend. Kennedy was confirmed by the U. S.
Mounce: Bamboozled! Hoodwinked! Betrayal of the Public Good – Rio Grande Guardian

2 months ago | riograndeguardian.com | Gary Mounce

If I were to go back to the classroom (I’m now retired from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas), I would not be able to use some of my old-timey terms, like “bamboozled” or “hoodwinked.” That’s what happened to us in the last presidential election!But, it seems, many (a plurality, but not majority; he did not win a “mandate”) indeed, were fooled. Fooled? Yes.
Mounce: “POCHO!” Go Home!

Jul 27, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Gary Mounce

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Mounce: "POCHO!" Go Home! – Rio Grande Guardian

Jul 27, 2024 | riograndeguardian.com | Gary Mounce

“Pocho“! Some Mexican Americans (from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, or elsewhere) might have heard that insult hurled at them during a trip to Mexico. If so, sorry. How callous. How hurtful was that Mexican, unaware of the difficulties that U.S. citizen/tourist/shopper (perhaps in Reynosa or Progreso, visiting his or her family) has had with the Spanish language.