And we don’t fool her. Ever. There are 20,000 dead in China after a 7.9 Earthquake, but that news is 4 days old. The interesting thing is that before the quake, a pond became completey dry, and thousands of frogs were evacuating their aquatic homes. The question on the table now is “do we get [...]
not the exciting, heat raising experience that we all wish we could hang on to forever (unless you plan to take Dopamine pills for the rest of your life!), but instead, according to this week’s Time Magazine, the goal is “to move beyond the early thrill of love and into the comfort of the Sunday-paper-and-coffee [...]
That’s what we should celebrate tomorrow. Forget Columbus; he was a rapist, a pillager of land; in short, a medieval thug. So no, I don’t celebrate a day named for any cultural assassin (s), or a day named for someone who discovered a place that had habitants that knew who and where they were. [...]
Today Bush finally addressed the fact that Latino/a home owners are losing their homes/mortgages at an alarming rate. Statistics show that more Latino/as have lost their homes than Hurricane Katrina victims. So I guess it should come as no surprise that Bush has made a statement in which he empathizes with those folks that have [...]
I’ve just been very busy. I have been trying to finish up my final project (which is now a month late), thinking about exams lists & proposals, and trying to finish any work that needs to be done before exam time actually comes. Believe it or not, I spend upwards of 6 hours a day [...]
Interesting and sad. In El Diario, La Prensa which is a Latino newspaper, they reported what appears to be the latest in a rash of suicides in young soldiers returning from Iraq. This one particular soldier is reported as having confided in his friends that he couldn’t deal with the murders he was forced to [...]
The lovely lady that occupies the header of this new blog is Anacaona, the Taino Queen. While her origin is linked to Santo Domingo and NOT Puerto Rico, I claim her because we are also Taino. In fact, few people realize that the Tainos are part of the Arawak tribe. Indeed, I would [...]
