Superama

The nearest supermarket to my house in 06500 México, D.F. is owned by Wal*Mart but I tried it anyway, as there is nothing else within walking distance. With all the U.S. products it has, you can see it is a U.S. place, but it is much more upscale than Wal*Mart. Minimum wage in Mexico is … More Superama

Paul Krugman

Sé que a algunos les gusta proyectar en otros su propia crudeza, pero lo que realmente están demostrando es su propia ignorancia. Article in English. Axé.

To note.

If you break your computer in Mexico and have to get something small and cheap in the interval, two places to go are SUMITEL and COMPUDABO and I think SUMITEL is the best. It is in the Plaza de la Tecnología. UPDATE. I went to that plaza and it is like the place off Wilson … More To note.

Occupied Mexico

So far I have seen one set of militarized police, wearing ski masks in a marked truck with machine guns mounted on it. I saw another set of, I suppose, army, in camouflage, but their truck was not marked so they could have been extralegal paramilitaries for all I know. Axé.

A department chair

Z: I am very busy and do not want to change textbooks for our multi-section course. Whiteman: It is selfish of you to give research and more advanced courses a greater priority than this course sequence, and to value current pedagogical practice over the comfort of the older M.A. instructors. Z: Actually, it is selfish … More A department chair