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Blackhawks down and talking trash

richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: With the chair of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations asking “dude, where’s th … more →

Tags: Barack Obama, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Felipe Calderon, France, George W. Bush, Gringolandia, Mexican History 1824-1910

Slim chance the Times are a'changin' 1 comment

richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: Marketwatch is reporting (from Tel Aviv, for some reason) that Carlos Slim, who has already bought 6 … more →

Tags: Gringolandia, Pancho Villa, Economy & Business, technology, Carlos Slim, Alvaro Obregon, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Venustiano Carranza

Barack Manuel Lopez Obama?4 comments

richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: Fausto Fernández Ponte, in Blogotitlan argues that the U.S. economy has been headed for a crash ever … more →

Tags: Gringolandia, AMLO, 2006 Elections, Vicente Fox, Política mexicana, Economy & Business, Felipe Calderon, Barack Obama, Emigrant labor/remittances

What's wrong with Jose Seis-chelas?

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: One of the deciding factors in United States Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson’s support of the 191 … more →

Tags: 2000 Mexican Presidential Election, 2006 Elections, Álvaro Colom, Alvaro Obregon, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), AMLO, Barack Obama, Barry Goldwater, Benito Juarez

"A profound shudder"2 comments

richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío wrote for The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa, the aromatic America o … more →

Tags: Gringolandia, Artists, Writers, Philosophers, etc., Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Writers, artists, philosphers outside Mexico, Nicaragua, Rubén Darío, Theodore Roosevelt

Race, la Raza and Spiro T. Agnew1 comment

richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: Latinamericanistas who post in English invested a lot of bandwidth this last week in discussing Span … more →

Tags: Gringolandia, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Marriage, Mexican History 1575-1810 (Colonial Era), Mexican History 1810-1824 (Independence), Mexican History 1824-1910, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution)

Follow the (Merida) money2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America), a group I’m not familiar with posted this about the … more →

Tags: Crack-pots, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Franklin Roosevelt, Gringolandia, Informal economy, Legal System

Progress... not perfection2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Sombrero tip to Duke, at Migra Matters. … more →

Tags: Border Issues, Crack-pots, Gringolandia, Human Rights, Humor, Indocumentados

Undersea Nature Films by a French Anarchist who Claims Not to be Influenced by Surrealism, but Really was; Regarding the

sortapretentious wrote 1 year ago: Le Vampire, A film by Jean Painleve (1945) … more →

Tags: (not America), Surrealism, Nature, French, nature films, undersea worlds, anarchism, jazz

Da man v. da man (this'll be good)

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Trotsky said somewhere, “the oppressed seldom rebel”. I think his point was that to hav … more →

Tags: Barry Goldwater, Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Economy & Business, Emigrant labor/remittances, Gringolandia, Human Rights, Leon Trotsky

Reasons your writing sucks and you should have gotten an MBA or gone to law school according to George Orwell, On the

sortapretentious wrote 1 year ago: George Orwell Politics and the English Language First published: Horizon. — GB, London. — April 1946 … more →

Tags: Essay, writing, (not America), Politics, GEORGE ORWELL, George Bush, Fascism, War, language

French Philosopher's Inability to Enjoy Disneyland, On a

sortapretentious wrote 1 year ago: from Simulacra and Simulations Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (Stanford; Stanf … more →

Tags: Essay, (not America), mind explosure, Los Angeles, Baudrillard, Disneyland, simulacra, Philosophy

The Ides of March

auvin wrote 2 years ago: This will be the last bit of culture of any sort that will be squeezed from me until at least after … more →

Tags: Wine, wine tasting, Emile Peynaud, March Madness


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