Want to live on Isla Plastica?

How’s this for a conversation starter? If you’re not caring about Mother Earth, you might reconsider after reading  what happens to much of the plastic we use on a continuous basis.

Murder at a Museum

Well, folks, I really don’t even know what to say about this, except to reiterate what I have said in previous posts: white folks are getting more scared by the day, and fear is a powerful motivator . Yes, oppressors are concerned about the consistent changes,  and yes, the power structure is becoming impacted in [...]

One step forward, two steps back?

Alarming. That’s the only word I can think of describe the most current happenings. I am very concerned about our new President-Elect. Apparently, the reason Michelle, Sasha, and Malea were not on stage at the time of his acceptance speech was because he feared they would witness his assassination. There were a few threats prior [...]

Palin the Playful Pundit

After watching Palin’s acceptance speech, and having my intelligence insulted, I felt inspired to make a few observations…
Sarah says, the difference between governor and community organizer is responsibility.  There is undoubtedly a difference, but here it is: The first includes payment for services rendered, recognition, and personal gain.  The latter is predicated on altruism; a [...]

It’s Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature…

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 [...]

The eventual goal of love is…

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 [...]

Indigenous People Day

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. [...]

Single Mothers: Bush Strikes Again

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 haven’t disappeared…

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 [...]

The latest news

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 [...]