Today is a sad day in Buenos Aires.  I just discovered that my friend former friend, Marc, has a blog specifically dedicated to Buenos Aires.  http://literallybsas.com/ This “blah”-g is clearly an attempt to steal the glory and readership that I have worked hard to accumulate here at itslegalinargentina.tumblr.com, and I take it as a personal offense, and a clear act of internet warfare.  Marc is a journalist, and he’s been living in Buenos Aires for much longer than I.  Yes, I’m fighting a war of words against a real writer.  He has infinitely more experience (he’s, like, really old), more technical expertise than I could ever dream of, he’s mastered at least two languages that I know of, and to top it all off, he’s British.  This scenario reminds me of another war which pitted the mighty Brits against an inexperienced, but fiercely righteous people who stood up for what they believed in.  No, I don’t see this being my own American Revolution, I was referring to the Falklands War…

Historical Note: The Falklands War started when Argentina decided to try to take the Falkland Islands, a British archipelago in the South Atlantic, by force in 1982.  While the Argentines have claimed ownership of the islands for decades (they call them “Las Islas Malvinas,”), the UN doesn’t recognize their claim, and their military actions were not met with much support from the international community.  Basically, The British got a telegram that one of their territories was endangered, and they sent a couple boats to kick the Argentines out.  Whole thing lasted only 74 days, and Argentina got spanked in a war they started.  I don’t really know what the Argentinians are so worked up about though.  From all the pictures I’ve seen, the place doesn’t look anything like the Maldives (which I thought it was for my first month here), and it’s only draw is hanging out with some British guys and seeing ugly penguins.

One plus I have in my column is that in the right light, Marissa’s stuffed animal, Fluffy Duck, looks surprisingly like Benjamin Franklin. see previous post.