by David Sasaki | Sep 19, 2005 | English, Muse, Music, Politics
My sister has recently discovered David Bowie. Well, musically at least. Little did she know of his acting career. So last night, on our way to do some shopping at Trader Joes, I insisted she watched both Labyrinth – a classic on par with The Princess Bride...
by David Sasaki | Sep 16, 2005 | English
If you think the title was lewd, you gotta get your mind outta the gutter. My first cross-post from Global Voices: 195 years ago today, in the town of Dolores, Guanajuato, a Catholic priest named Miguel Hidalgo rang the bell of his church and, in a call for Mexican...
by David Sasaki | May 18, 2005 | English, Podcast (English)
This month’s podcast somewhat accompanies this post. It’s been a long time coming: my response to the HP’s second argument in our series of blogger debates. For those of you new to the blog, the blogger debates between Hispanic Pundit and I evolved...
by David Sasaki | Apr 29, 2005 | Articles, English
It’s my lunch hour. Let’s see how quick we can do this. People power rattling politics of Latin America I have a feeling the Mexican media is doing a much better job covering the protests going on throughout this country and throughout Latin America than...
by David Sasaki | Apr 6, 2005 | Economics, English, Muse, Politics
I don’t expect you to read this entire post, but I do have a favor to ask. Will you – all of you – please leave a comment with the link to what you think is the best post you have written so far? Thx. I was reading an article in MIT’s...
by David Sasaki | Mar 13, 2005 | English, Globalization, Politics
It’s Sunday morning … and true to the name, the sunlight, roughly eight minutes after leaving its home, is blasting furiously outside. So is the wind. And my honey and I are taking refuge from both in the cool shade of our upstairs bedroom. What are we...
by David Sasaki | Feb 5, 2005 | Politics
Note: This is the final post in a series of five. Here are parts one, two, three, and four. Down below, I’m calling people out and asking questions to try and include more people in the conversation. I’ll tell you something that I rarely tell anyone: I...
by David Sasaki | Feb 2, 2005 | English
This is the fourth post in a series of five. Here are parts one, two, and three. Semantics The meaning or the interpretation of a word, sentence, or other language form The study of the relationships between various signs and symbols and what they represent. Minority...
by David Sasaki | Jan 29, 2005 | English
Note: This post is the third in a series. Here are parts one and two. And so the first year of tutoring at Gompers continued on. Every Tuesday and Thursday I would wake up at 5:45 am, go for a quick jog, shower, make my coffee and drive the 30 minutes to Gompers High....
by David Sasaki | Jan 25, 2005 | Politics
Note: This post is the second in a series and continued from this one. Star Parker, the president of CURE, recently wrote an Op-Ed piece entitled The Credibility of Black Conservitivism which acknowledges the mistake of popular Black conservative, “Armstrong...