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Bamboozled in Thrall

2013-06-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

The most logical explanation for the illogical behavior of our immediate past City Council is that they completely believed the

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Bland El Paso

2013-06-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 2 comments

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. And maybe it wasn’t that much of a secret. But really, they should have

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Bob Dylan on El Paso’s New Slogan

2013-06-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Cold-blooded killer, stalking the town Cop cars blinking, something bad going down Buildings are crumbling in the neighborhood But there’s

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What’s the Secret?

2013-06-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some of the decisions that have been made lately make me think that the decision makers aren’t putting all their

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Name that Team

2013-06-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s my take on the El Paso Triple A Baseball Team Naming Fiasco, henceforth, Namegate. (Here’s the story in the

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How Steve-O Lost the Election

2013-06-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I think Steve was clueless. I think that his lopsided loss in the general election caught him flatfooted. He surrounded

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Mr. Natural wants to know

2013-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In response to The Road to Economic Development, Mr. Natural asks Right on about promoting cultural and educational values in

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When hackers attack

2013-06-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My web host informs me that someone has been trying to access El Chuqueno through a brute force attack. I’m

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The Road to Economic Development

2013-06-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

As an El Pasoan, I appreciate the civic improvements that City Hall is foisting on us.  (Can I even call

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More on It’s All Good

2013-05-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s what the Urban Dictionary has to say about It’s All Good: Platitude that covers so many emotions and situations

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El Paso. It’s all good.

2013-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

I know it’s impolite (maybe even unpatriotic to the point of treason) to be critical of the current regime in

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Inmates run Maryland prison

2013-04-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Just like in The Wire, maybe, Season Six. The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers

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Know the Lowrider

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“We spend more on our cars than we do on our houses,” Larry added. Larry is a member of Our

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Mercado Cerrajeros in Juarez, the durable consumer good graveyard.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

It’s off of Libertad, in La Chaveña. ” like an elephant graveyard for consumer goods.” (read more at What’s Up.)

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It’s extremely insensitive to steal the guy’s wheels when he’s dead under the truck.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Some time during the night, an unknown person reportedly removed Goodyear Wrangler tires, two Ford factory aluminum wheels and the

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I say handball, you say rebote

2013-03-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In English we call it handball. In Spanish it’s rebote a mano con pelota dura, or rebote for short. They

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Buses to bars

2013-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Despite El Pasoans’ reluctance to take, or even talk about, the bus, Sun Metro seems complicit in a plot to

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El Paso’s Secret City Government Secret Emails

2013-01-14 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

What is the City hiding in their personal emails? A walking quorum? A narco-nexus? Jimmy Hoffa? Secret payoffs to the

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Were you violent? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There is a significant correlation between the use of leaded gasoline and incidences of violent crime. [L]ead emissions from automobiles

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Are you fat? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I heard this a year ago as we were slipping through the dappled shadows on Gavilan Canyon Road, listening to

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