In the first place: nobody can be as Texan as a Mexican can, and that is final. In the second place: I have never before received a medical excuse from Mexico. This is the new wave, I see: due to our governor’s reforms, I had a student who could be seen by the right kind … More Novedad Bobby Jindal
When I was a child, after sailing to Europe on the M.S. Aurelia we had lunch at the Hostellerie Cro-Magnon, in the Dordogne. This was so as to visit caves allegedly painted by Cro-Magnon men. Only now have I realized that Cro-Magnon man was named after the more modern name of the region. The Hostellerie … More Hostellerie Cro-Magnon
We are arguing about whether women who do not agree with the church position, or who are often not even Catholic, should be denied health care coverage that everyone else gets because their employer has a religious objection to it. If so, what happens if an employer belongs to a religion that forbids certain types … More My religion? Anticlericalism.
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This anti-Putin action took place weeks ago and I missed it. Axé.
This is a brilliant film, and this copy is not likely to be legal. However, its YouTube link leads to another set of complete, rare films, most of which copies are not likely to be legal, but whose presence does give us a chance to see them while it lasts. Axé.
Here is the ficha de inscripción for the 2012 festival de cine de Lima, which is August 3-11. It would be fun go to this festival, but fares are high and routes inconvenient; it is actually easier and hardly more expensive to go to Argentina or Chile. Flights to Mexico and Guatemala are fully half … More Festival de Lima. A very amusing post
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More on the Dominican theme. I don’t remember the US backed coup of 1963, but I do remember the US backed invasion of 1965, when we were also putting Mobutu Sese Seko into the Congo and escalating in Viet Nam. I cannot believe people witnessed these things, yet did not understand the drumbeat that led … More Juan Bosch
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