Diaspora and Development
As if immigrants to the Western world don’t have enough to worry about with accusations of terrorism and complaints of non-assimilation, they must also endure the frequent criticisms that come from their home country. If they become too involved in the affairs...
Foreign Correspondents Replaced By Digital DJ's
It’s hard to believe that it has already been five months since I was sitting in the café courtyard of the Galería de Arte Nacional in Caracas and writing a blog post that I intended to publish that same afternoon. Like so many nearly finished blog posts,...Sorrow Drips Into Your Heart Through A Pinhole
Picking up the paper this past week and avoiding an article about our southern border would have been like picking up a gallon of prune juice and avoiding the toilet: difficult. As chance would have it, during the media blitz brought on by a couple high-profile...
Granddaddy MacGyver
Imagine if your great-great-great-great-grandfather/mother had a blog. How rad would that be? Any time you wanted you could go and check out what they thought about Napolean or Cortes or what their favorite food was or why they got in fights with their neighbor. How...Against Populism
Sliding Scale Contentment As I think I’ve mentioned before, Karen was the first blogger I met in person. (Last night I was to meet a group of webloggers here in Monterrey, but sadly the bar we were going to meet at had been closed down for a month.) You would...Latest Photos
