Monthly Archives: September 2003

An interesting academic take from Newsweek on the Meaning of Spanglish. What are some of your favorite Spanglish terms?

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He seems to be riding a crest of publicity, and with quotes like these, Paul Krugman deserves it: Four months ago it seemed that the 2004 campaign would be all slow-mo films of Mr. Bush in his flight suit. But at this point, it’s likely to be pictures of Howard Dean or Wesley Clark that [...]

You are a hip hop diehard. To you, hip hop has been the single most powerful cultural influence in your life. You’ve devoted years of your life, minutes or hours at a time, ingesting, absorbing, analyzing, memorizing, imitating, creating, discussing, and just plain loving the music, the rhymes, the rhythms, the art, and the essence [...]

The Wahington Post offers an excellent examination of some of the details behind Bush’s Iraqi funding request. My question is this: why does our “President” not offer any of the details to the American public himself? Personally when I heard him say $87 billion, I was completely floored. After reading this article, at least there [...]

NYC Master Plan now available here.

A count of the dead in Iraq — and although I shouldn’t have to add this because a human death is a human death — this tallies the dead civilians of Iraq.

I need $100 zillion dollars.

The reality is that I am a political junkie. Always have been. When I was in sixth grade, I hated then-President Reagan. I remember once in class, as we discussed the Cold War and US-USSR relations, that I said of Reagan “I think he is a trigger-happy actor who can’t tell the difference between movies [...]

HackerWatch Map Reminds me of the those SARS maps that were all the rage earlier this year.

Tank is canvas for Iraqi kids The spirit of this is amazing. It also reminds me of the spirit that the young woman from Iraq alluded to in the Baghdad is Burning post a few back…