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  • Fritz Lang’s “House by the River”

    2026-01-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Gilded Age”

    2026-01-17 elrichiboy
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  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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  • Shopping South El Paso Street

    2025-12-22 Rich Wright

    South El Paso Street is El Paso’s most vibrant street. In the daytime, South El Paso Street is what our city planners aspire to. Walkable,

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  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”

    2025-12-21 elrichiboy
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  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

    2025-12-20 elrichiboy
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  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

    2025-12-17 Rich Wright

    Here’s another article critical about Project Jupiter. This critique is environmental. From Truthout.org: At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico,

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  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

    2025-12-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

    2025-12-13 elrichiboy
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Downtown El Paso: The Land of Opportunity

2014-03-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Good news for all those ballpark advocates: There is still lots of opportunity in downtown El Paso! With the Southwestern

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Weekend at Fernie’s

2014-03-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you see this story in the Diario about the guys in Juarez who were driving around with the corpse

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Meth Mango Recovered

2014-03-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You probably missed the story about the stolen 10 ton mango. That’s okay, it’s been found — with a meth

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Psycho-cybernetic Enhancements

2014-02-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m not talking cyborg. There’s a new generation of apps and websites that teach you to function better. According to

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A Structural Analysis of the Deep State

2014-02-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s an insightful analysis of how things work in America. There is the visible government situated around the Mall in

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A Plague of Biblical Proportions

2014-02-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It could happen here. An Arizona town is overrun with tiny pooches that are terrorizing children and defecating anywhere they

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Is the Lottery rigged?

2014-02-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

No, not at all. Every other institution in this country is hopelessly corrupt, but not the one that gives away

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Observations on the State of Journalism

2014-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Time mgazine’s cover story on Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was widely panned on the internet and social media, and

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Because El Paso

2014-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The John Cook campaign launched their website this week. Here’s a link. You should look at it. Then you should

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Quebrando Malo

2014-02-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the extended trailer for the Spanish Breaking Bad, set in Colombia. It’s exactly the same. Only different.

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We’re Number 46!

2014-02-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The United States, the world’s superpower, has been surrendering it’s moral high ground ever since, and probably before, 9/11. When

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Glass Beach Holiday

2014-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve been trying to figure out why the City’s recent branding efforts have been off-key. They refuse to acknowledge that

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Market Manipulation?

2014-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s something interesting I noticed: The price of Western Refining (WNR) stock has dropped more than 15 percent since its

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“The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”

2014-02-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

I’ve noticed that people who go to a name brand university, and even those who who go to a lower

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Stockton, The Future of El Paso

2014-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I just came across this story about Stockton, California, in the Huffington Post. It sounds eerily familiar: A $47 million

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The Brownfield Empire

2014-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

If any of you who read El Chuqueño don’t read The Brownfield Empire, you are doing yourselves a disservice. Here’s

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Snowden’s Interview with German TeeVee (in English)

2014-02-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I had no idea that Edward Snowden’s interview with German television hadn’t been covered by U.S. so-called mainstream media, until

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Even She Knows She’s Bullshitting

2014-02-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reported that City Manager Joyce Wilson spoke to the Central Business Association last week. “The role

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Happy New Year!

2014-01-31 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Yesterday I took a Chinese family over to Juarez. It was Chinese New Year’s Eve. We walked over, and got

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County Elections: Why bother?

2014-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Well, the county elections are coming up. So what? None of the incumbents have a lot to brag about what

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