Blogging live from Los Angeles – on a too tight schedule and deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. Here’s what is going on on this Day Without An Immigrant:

1. Highways very quiet, no blockages, but traffic rushing through as if everyone expects some and wants to get to work first. The Santa Monica freeway (10) is especially this way, the San Diego freeway (the 405) is less so.

2. At work, none of the cleaning crew have shown up. Even the ones who told me (en espanol) that they would be here … are not. Must be 30 people missing.

3. Cardinal Mahony says he’s gonna march with Mexicans in a barrio, and not at the commie march downtown. Most everyone (including me) is going to go to the big immigrant rally (La Brea to Koreatown I think) in the afternoon to support the immigrants who are marching noncoercively. It’s the one Dolores Huerta and Cardinal Mahony endorse.

4. Nothing interesting on KPFK for this issue. Yakking about Darfur.

5. Mexican government privately warning confrontational day-march organizers to back off because it could strain relations with the United States.

6. Virtually certain my Spanish teacher at the community college, a Peruvian immigrant, who hinted she might be absent for class today, will be absent. I didn’t have time to do my homework so this gives me an extra few days. Well, I’ll go join her.

7. Here is an essay I co-wrote with Thomas Lifson at American Thinker examining Hugo’s Chavez’s involvement in all this. Don’t think he isn’t.

8. Boli-Nica has tons of links and a few thoughts here.

9. Josue Sierra at Latino Issues has some of the best blogging of all on this topic. He says he’s not playing hookey from work here and he has plenty of other good stuff to scroll through here. Boy! Look at Josh’s traffic here!

10. Pajamas Media has Ramirez’s killer cartoon featured (as it should be, cartoons are excellent graphic essays) here. And probably a lot of other stuff, to scroll through from here.

11. Pajamas Media is reporting a sea of Mexican flags at two locations in Los Angeles right now here.

12. Roger Simon has tons and tons of really good photos here!