Above San Diego
A couple nights ago long time friend and fellow caffeine peddler/small plane pilot, Nat took Mei and I up into San Diego’s most inner outasphere. For most of the time we were about 3000 feet above sea level but the ground below us looked teasingly touchable....Why is Bush not letting Students go to Cuba?
Via this article, I learned today that the White House will “impose tighter restrictions on so-called “educational travel” to Cuba by American groups, which have increased in recent years and are widely considered de facto tourism.” Bush said...
Huntington Responds
Just after posting that last bit I found a very interesting exchange of letters and a response by Huntington here on the FP website. (they annoyingly ask you to register) Here is what my old advisor, Wayne Cornelius wrote: Wayne Cornelius Gildred Professor of...
Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
Mercy Among the Children is a stunning novel by David Adams Richards. It has nothing to do with international conflict, but a nation at war should stare into its flame … There’s light here for anyone who can stand the considerable heat he generates. Told with racing suspense and a style that swings between gritty realism and Old Testament myth, Mercy Among the Children is a bitter antidote to the proud slogans of war between neighbors or nations. Here is the reason to read fiction.
My email to Ilan Stavans
Earlier this morning I sent the following email a Ilan Stavans – un profe at Amherst y escritor de Spanglish: the making of a new american language. I’ll write a review sobre el libro pronto but what I want to know now is how many of you would help...Latest Photos
