Author: elrichiboy

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

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

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

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

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

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

For your amusement and edification:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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