I don’t know if I have enough material to write an entire post about Bush’s ill-fated decision to turn over control to 6 US ports (though I have heard it rumored that it is as many as 21) to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates. But I am going to write about […]
Another weekend has come and has nearly gone. I’m right now studying in the Law Building commons area, where law students are supposed to get together to form important connections that will help them once they complete their studies, where deals are made, where partnerships form, where some students insist on talking extremely noisily […]
A few posts ago, I wrote that it seemed like war in Iran would be avoided as Germany embraced a plan for Iran to accept enriched Uranium from Russia. Anyway following this intense story of international drama now knows that stuff happened, Iran rejected Russia’s proposal, and has not been referred by the IAEA […]
I hate to admit it, but I’m getting a little tired of winter. Things were ticking along quite nicely even just a week ago. The temperature was hovering around 30, there was no snow on the ground, and the worst thing that had happened as a cloudy day with a bit of wind. […]
What a nice weekend it was over here. I got done with an easy paper, I went out on Saturday to Latino Ball and the afterparty at Frida’s, I got done with almost all my schoolwork (just a little to wrap up today), and I got married! Wait… no, I don’t think that […]
Wow, I just wrote a paper in one day, 8 pages. That’s actually too long, so I will need to do some cutting. And 8 pages is just an estimate because I haven’t actually taken the text examples that I have marked in my book and put them in the paper. But […]
Yep, it’s snowing. That’s a usual winter occurance (and all other seasons of the year) in Wisconsin. And, hey, we like it and look forward to it. Sometimes it comes to be a bit of an inconvenience, especially when you are driving or in a vehicle of any sort really. But […]
“Lovin’ you is easy ’cause you’re beautiful.” These song lyrics have been bouncing around my head for the last five minutes as I struggled to think of a topic to write about on this Valentine’s Day. A lot of single people hate Valentine’s, but not me. Maybe because it was never anything […]
Well, online I took an Implicit Association Test from Harvard U. meant to measure White/Black preferences and prejudices. You can find the test here.
According to the results, I show a “moderate automatic preference for Black compared to White.” That’s right, baby! And do you know what that actually means?
“The interpretation […]
I had to read an absolutely strange, wonderful, hilarious, and tragic book for my class on Brazilian Women Writers. The 86 page masterpiece is ‘The Hour of the Star’ by Clarice Lispector, translated by Giovani Pontiero. The book is about (somewhat) a young, wretched girl named Macabéa and her life in Rio. […]
When my away message reads “In the studio” you know what that means. That means that the tracks for ‘Straight from the CellBlock,’ my followup to my critically ignored first album ‘Unstoppable Cool,’ are coming out of my computer at a rate unfathomable to the human mind. Think about it this way. […]
There is a huge market our there for beverages that taste terrible, but taste terrible in different ways. Look at how many people drink coffee everyday. What about liquor and beer? What about those flavored carbonated waters?
People suck down coffee like there’s no tomorrow… and for some reason want to […]
I owe so very many of my good decision in life to one simple fact: I have good people around whom I seek advice from. This basic notion of the nature of my relationships with other people has seldom led me wrong. And when it has led me wrong, it was only […]
There are dangers to getting up at 6:30 AM. For one, waking up that early, it is still dark outside. One must wander the streets, nearly alone except for the flow of traffic pouring ever westward. University Ave. is a river of red tail lights. I had to get up that […]
Oh the world television premire of a movie is always an exciting event, especially when alone on a Friday night. But I have just had the pleasure of watching over two hours of commercials interspliced with a movie I’ve been waiting to see for a few months now - Grizzly Man, a documentary about […]