Happy birthday, AGI

A Grand Illusion, one of the oldest--though not most frequently updated--Miami blogs, turns three today. You can read my inaugural post here, a pissed off reaction to Chavez winning the 2004 referendum.

Today is a great day for Bolivarian movements. According to The New York Times, Chavez won the revocatory referendum. Chavez, in true Bolivarian fashion, gave a speech clad in ridiculous red—the representative color of his retrograde movement and a horrible color for a dress shirt—in which he cited the old Roman adage, “vox populi vox Dei.” If this is indeed true, God is some sort of asshole and he surely hates Venezuelans.

On other news, today, as searching for normalcy reminds us with a video, is the thirtieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death.