by Eduardo de la Garza On March 17, Americans will dress in festive green clothes so as to allude pinching and go to pubs to drink green-dyed beer, because what better way to celebrate the feast day of a saint than debauchery? To be fair, even that feast day may be based more on allegory than truth. Patrick, or Pádraig,…
Although the lion is seen as the king of the jungle, the lioness is the actual leader of the pride. She is the main hunter, protects the cubs, and fends off encroaching animals, even lions. In 1971, songwriter Helen Reddy penned “I am Woman,” which included the lines “… hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore.” But one…
“Going the way of the Dodo” is a euphemism for the end of something, that something becomes irrelevant and obsolete. It becomes extinct. The Dodo isn’t just a metaphor, nor a character in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. It’s commonly regarded as the first animal — a bird — to be driven to extinction by humans. The last Dodo died…