Posted in Business on Sep 25th, 2009
Barry Ritholtz, one of the nation’s top economics bloggers, tracks the true expected costs of the banking system bailout. His figure of $14 trillion has now dropped to a paltry $11.6 trillion, and knowing how important it is to put that into perspective for the rest of humanity, he offers this:
To put $11.6 trillion into [...]
When you think of San Antonio you might automatically picture in your mind’s eye, the Alamo and the river walk. It’s true that the city has successfully branded itself as a tourist destination where you can eat good Mexican food; enjoy mariachi music and all the other things that make it a Hispanic themed playground [...]
Posted in Arts on Sep 24th, 2009
Nobody reads feel-good stories. Why is that? Is it because we don’t believe good things actually can and do happen, or if they do, then it’s a fluke? I mean, we all know bad things happen; the question there is just a matter of how often or how bad. And face it: doesn’t it make [...]
Posted in Education on Sep 18th, 2009
You cannot remove the racist from the person.
There, I said it.
But you CAN do things to immunize people on the wrong side of the institutional racism equation, many of whom have their demographics under-represented in the halls of academia and the ranks of the college degree-requiring professions, from some of the effects of that racism.
First [...]
Posted in Culture on Sep 17th, 2009
El Paso Texas is a very old border city with Mexico that is like a separate country. It is located at the western tip of Texas, isolated from its nearest neighboring large city Odessa by a good four hours. The city has a unique culture comprised of elements from Mexico, New Mexico, and Texas.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2009
This is what now substitutes for substantive criticism on the right. Brilliant. What has happened to the Republican party?
Context here.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2009
Preach it, Rush:
In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, ‘Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on… I wonder if Obama’s going to come to come to the defense of the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard.
If this doesn’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 15th, 2009
I don’t know how many more posts I’ll write here. For a variety of reasons, this blog on race seems to be dying a slow death.
It’s a hard topic… maybe harder than you’d think. Yes, there are easy targets. Rush Limbaugh cooking up a conspiracy that has President Obama sneaking reparations past us all through [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 11th, 2009
During the 18 years following the conclusion of the Civil War, the state of Texas elected 3 African-Americans to the State Senate. There were also 32 African-Americans elected to the State House of Representatives during that time.
1883 was the year that the Texas State Senate saw its last African-American member leave office for quite some [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Business, Economics, Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2009
September is Latino heritage month. CNN is launching Latino in America with editorial content similar to the series, Black in America. I may not have the eight most popular last name of, “Garcia” but I qualify to tell you what it’s like to be Latino.
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