(PNS reporting from SILICON VALLEY) Internet security companies here are warning PC users a new threat could be hitting their email inboxes this week: Mal-Ojo-Ware.

The malicious software penetrates a users’ PC via an inviting email from an attractive young woman or man and then takes control of the computer and sticks the user with mal ojo. [Mas…]

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The Republican Senator from the Hate State of Arizona, John McCain, is one of the “Gang of Eight” senators behind the new immigration reform bill. Today his office released this love song to the “new voters” he wants to legalize.

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What in the hell is wrong with angry young cable news guy Dylan Ratigan, who quit fame and fortune at MSNBC to become a hydroponic farmer who employs veterans? The Daily Show’s Al Madrigal goes to farmville to find out. [Disclosure: Madrigal is also POCHO's Migrant Editor.]

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(PNS reporting from PHILADELPHIA) American singer Jon Secada has begun to crawl out of the ground in the Mid-Atlantic area.

The now 50-year-old Secada reemerges every 13 or 17 years somewhere in the eastern half of the United States.

The last time Cuban-born Secada went underground was in 1996, two years after releasing Heart, Soul and a Voice. During his absence he somehow managed to quietly release two greatest hit albums and two Christmas albums, both in English and Spanish.

After re-emerging, Jon Secada typically sheds his crunchy brown exoskeleton and will spend a few weeks of adulthood mating and laying eggs in tree branches. He will also release yet another greatest hits or holiday-themed collection, definitely in Spanish. [Mas…]

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Villaraigosa’s proposal to new L.A. mayor Garcetti: ‘Be my wingman’

by María Purísima May 22, 2013 El Now
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(PNS reporting from LOS ANGELES)  Outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villariagosa has a proposal for incoming mayor Eric Garcetti: Be my wingman. Villariagosa has been contemplating life after being LA’s mayor — and it’s not looking good. Reviewing his taste for power and dating attractive women who would be out of his shorty league if [...]

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La Cucaracha: When the Dizney Corp. came calling (toon)

by Lalo Alcaraz May 22, 2013 Cartoons
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Immigration Bill clears Senate committee on way to becoming law

by Comic Saenz May 22, 2013 El Now
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(PNS reporting from WASHINGTON) A bruised, battered and patched-up Immigration Bill cleared a major hurdle Tuesday as a bipartisan 13-5 vote kicked Bill out of the Judiciary Committee and onto the Senate floor. POCHO caught up with Bill in his dressing room after the committee vote and got him to agree to a short, on-the-record [...]

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Negrito: Sometimes you feel like an Afro, sometimes you don’t (video)

by MOL A. DROID May 22, 2013 Cultura
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In Mexico, Grupo Bimbo’s Negrito brand chocolate candy bars are delicious AND good for your hair! All sales final. Hoodie not included. RELATED: Hamburguesas never looked so good! Salma Hayek for BurgerBoy (video)

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Piñata Protest: ‘La Cucaracha (marijuana que fumar)’ [music video]

by EARVIN LEGEND May 22, 2013 Cultura
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Check it out: One frantic minute of punk-cumbia La Cucaracha (marijuana que fumar) by Piñata Protest. They are from San Antonio, TX, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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In LaLa Land, in 2005, we were ‘Livin’ Villagairosa’ (audio)

by Lalo Alcaraz May 22, 2013 Audio
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Antonio Villaraigosa came into the Los Angeles’ Mayor’s office with so much promise in 2005. My radio show on KPFK, The Pocho Hour of Power (heard Fridays at 4PM PST on 90.7 FM) produced and played this also hopeful and playful tune, Livin’ Villaraigosa, to document the excitement and also skewer the anti-Mexican conspiracy theorists [...]

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