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Two Americas by David Simon, the Creator of the Wire

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Via Facebook and Dangerous Minds and the Guardian: That may be the ultimate tragedy of capitalism in our time, that

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A Strategic Plan for Downtown Development

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

Here’s how you hyper-vitalize downtown El Paso, and develop its reputation as the coolest city in the Southwest: Buy the

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The World is a Hologram

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This article on Nature.com claims that scientists are closer to proving that the world as we know it is a

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25 Foot Shoulders

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I told her there was only one standard for evaluating our relationship. The swamp coolers don’t work when it’s a

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Microsoft: U.S. Gov’t = Hackers

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a piece in which computer giant Microsoft likens the United States government to accomplished, dedicated hackers. The problem with

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about a parasitical fungus that takes control of ants and persuades them to self-destruct. Kind of

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Ahead of the curve

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It was less than three weeks ago that El Chuqueño advocated a basic minimum income for all Americans, and now

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My TEDx El Paso Talk

2013-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For your amusement and edification:

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F*ck you, Pig

2013-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This new study posits that humans arose as a chimpanzee/pig hybrid. Now it all makes sense.

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Country Justice

2013-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from LaPolaka from a couple of days ago. It seems that the Villa Ahumada chief of police

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More on Developing Downtown

2013-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I love walkable communities. I’m all for making downtown work. But baseball stadiums and arenas and museums aren’t going to

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Some Earnest Questions About Downtown Development

2013-12-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Are the citizens of El Paso supposed to keep pouring money into downtown until all the downtown real estate speculators

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Schisms in the War on Drugs

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Here’s the article from the Guardian detailing policy differences between U.N. member nations on future drug policy. The story claims

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More on Mexico’s Garitas

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Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican President and GQ poster boy, says that closing the Aduana’s garitas is good for Juarez. It’s

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Thanksgiving Family Feud

2013-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Yesterday we had Thanksgiving at our house. All the relatives came. We were drinking, and then we started talking politics,

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No More Internal Migration Checks

2013-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in La Polaka, the Mexican government has decommissioned the customs checkpoints on highways from the border

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Thanks, America, by William Burroughs

2013-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the stuff that William Burroughs had to be thankful for, 1986. Pretty cynical, god bless him. I lifted this

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Where’s the Love?

2013-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This column by Nicholas Kristoff shines a light on it. He claims that rich people think they earned it, so

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Wikipedia and the Ballpark

2013-11-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Wikipedia has a post up about the ballpark. Unfortunately, the article is devoid of a lot of the real story

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100 Things

2013-11-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My friend Tony Testa posted this on Facebook. It’s never too late to learn.

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