Jose Tomas

As many of you know, Jose Tomas made his first appearance in quite awhile last week in the Plaza Monumental de Barcelona.

For my long time readers, this plaza will ring a bell as the place where I fell in love with bullfighting when I was twelve years old. Followers of recent history, of course, will also know Barcelona as being the epicenter of an obnoxious bunch of twits who want to prove what wonderfully modern and French SOBs they are, and thus the bullfight has been under consistant attack from the sort of folks who advocate obscene acts among members of the same sex.

I tell you this: bullfighting (along with smoking tobacco, eating meat, and drinking espresso) is one of the canaries in the mine of Western Civilization. When they manage to eliminate one of these things, trouble is right on its way. If they manage to eliminate all of these, oil your guns, because Western Civilization is over faster than you can say "Atilla the Vegetarian Anti-Smoking Activist".

So, in the meanwhile, enjoy this glimpse of one of the purest and most beautiful acts in Western Civilization:

Others might follow, but I don't have time to preview the other footage from 10. July.