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racism
does anybody think this article (and all the other ones out there who makes this type of comparison) is racist? the washington post last friday had an article connecting Cho Seung Hui's actions to Oldboy (yeah, the movie) and John Woo's movies. Check it out: WP staff writer Stephen Hunter's Cinematic Clues to Understand the Slaughter: Did Asian ( Read more... ) -
infant deaths increase in the south
Yesterday, I was talking to some friends about Cuba's more advanced healthcare system, and DS mentioned that it's because Cuba not only as more doctors, a better educational system that helps more produce doctors, but it also has a better preventive approach so it creates less cause for treatment. Check out this article below from NYT. Infant ( Read more... ) -
Living in Fear
I just saw a Vietnamese film tonight called "Living in Fear" (Sống Trong Sợ Hãi). It's about a man who was in the South Vietnamese Army, sent to re-education camp after the war was over, and had no job after he returned to normal life that he had to learn how to clear mines and bombs to sell the metal scraps to make a living for his family. It's ( Read more... ) -
Obama is from Chicago
Never thought this picture would come in useful, but here it is, a presidential candidate and me in 1999 in Chicago (no photoshop magic here).
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I'm so excited
This NYT article is dedicated to the Midwesterners out there who've migrated to the West Coast and the Super Bowl brought us back home. Rensselaer, IN is confused about who to root for in the Super Bowl; I'm not.
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Poor people's oil and the politics of global warming
I've been asking this question too after seeing "An Inconvenient Truth" - is it environmentally unsound to root for Venezuela's oil profits to keep going up so Chavez can continue to fund the revolution? Found this article online, and it actually provides some good framework to think about oil in a poor country.
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Not Paris by Night
This isn't, and I'm still thinking about that post... but here's something worth sharing too. Courtesy from Claire Tran's new column
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Oil from Venezuela
More thoughts about being at home to come, including an entry on Paris by Night, but for now "Yes, oil from Venezuela" by Joseph P. Kennedy II.
THERE'S BEEN a lot of controversy lately over whether Citizens Energy Corp. should distribute -- and the poor should accept -- discount heating oil from Venezuela while that country is under the leadership ( Read more... )
