Viva Nuevo Mexico (III)

I haven't had any good New Mexico stories for awhile but recently we were talking to a friend of ours who is getting married and is looking for a cool place to do it. She decided to check out the Santa Fe Opera just north of town. The price to be married there--a mere $10,000 "donation." Oh is that all. You wouldn't like a right arm as well. Of course, what this means is that not only are all but the rich excluded from being married there but essentially all but the white are too. Of course the liberal opera people would be horrified to be accused of even unintentional racism. But what is Santa Fe if not a historical Disneyland fantasy for rich white people. This in the same town that spends less per capita on public school students and has a higher teacher/student ration than Charleston, WV.

Meanwhile in Albuquerque today I saw a guy pull out his prosthetic leg when the donation he was begging for wasn't enough.