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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

    2026-07-31 anonymous

    Shouts and Murmurs On July 30, El Paso Electric sent out an email to its customers, with the subject line “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained.”

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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

    2026-07-30 elrichiboy
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  • Another Actor Suddenly Exits the Doña Ana County Political Stage

    2026-07-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Government in Doña Ana County is in turmoil. The shakeups continued this week as the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners terminated

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  • How Government Works

    2026-07-22 Rich Wright

    Some people are talking a lot about the evils of socialism these days. None of the other isms are pure gold, either. Capitalism. Populism. Communism.

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  • “The Great Depression – America’s Biggest Economic Crisis”

    2026-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Merry Gentlemen”

    2026-07-12 elrichiboy
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  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”

    2026-07-11 elrichiboy
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  • “Jigsaw”

    2026-07-05 elrichiboy
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  • Pay Raises for Everybody (But Not for You)

    2026-07-02 Rich Wright

    Our elected officials at the City (the Mayor and City Representatives) are getting 15% pay raises this year. The people at the City working for

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  • “Guilty Bystander”

    2026-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”

    2026-06-27 elrichiboy
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  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

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Juarez’ Secret Police

2014-01-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There are a couple of interesting stories on the intertubes today about former police chief Julián Leyzaola’s secret police unit,

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More Good News: Antibiotics Are On The Way Out

2014-01-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an alarmist story from the BBC, about how we’re all going to get infections and die, because germs are

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The DEA’s Ties to Criminal Organizations

2014-01-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an article in El Diario, in Spanish, which was originally posted in El Universal. The story makes the unremarkable

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The Best Story About Ecuador on the Internet

2014-01-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Ecuador is widely touted on the internet as retirement Eden. Low prices, socialized medicine, and a relatively stable democracy have

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The Gift That Keeps on Giving: The Ongoing Open Records Law Suit

2014-01-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Y’all may be surprised that the City is still fighting to keep our elected officials personal emails secret, even if

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Glow-in-the-dark pigs

2014-01-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Are you having trouble finding your pig at night? Scientists in China have successfully bred glow-in-the-dark pigs using jellyfish DNA.

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U.S. Biggest Threat to World Peace

2014-01-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

We’re number 1, according to an international survey: The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world

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Mass Murderer Treated Better Than Hacker

2013-12-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Welcome to Denmark: An international media campaign is targeting the Danish legal system’s treatment of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svarholm

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The Death of Prince and Nero’s

2013-12-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You may have read this story in the El Paso Times about The Westside Show Lounge closing. For years it

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The Stupidity of the Border Fence and the Militarization of the Border

2013-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a piece on Salon that highlights the stupidity of increased border security. Last week, John McCain gleefully announced that

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Greenwald: The Media are the Government’s Lapdogs

2013-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a summary of Glenn Greenwald’s address to a computer conference in Germany. “It really is the central view of

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What happens after you’re dead?

2013-12-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting interview with a doctor who specializes in bringing people back from the dead: There may be something

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Investigative Report: The Dangers of Juarez

2013-12-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I hope you read this story in the New York Times about how Juarez is coming back. It’s good to

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The Turbo Encabulator

2013-12-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Skip Tracing Ryan Mullen

2013-12-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story has everything. Skip tracing. Check printing machines that supply endless money. Yachts and Rolls Royces. I’m sure it

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How Americans See Mexico

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from El Diario editorializing on how Americans see Mexico (hence the title to this post): Speedy Gonzalez

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Internal Migration in Juarez

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story in El Diario reports that nearly 100,000 people have changed residences within Juarez because of increasing insecurity in

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Bruce Lee and the One Inch Punch

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

But maybe more impressive is Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchakus.

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The CIA, Smart Bombs, and the War Against the FARC in Colombia

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about the CIA’s role in taking down the FARC insurgency in Colombia. The 50-year-old Revolutionary Armed

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Police Gone Bad

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a headline you don’t want to see in your local paper: Troopers: Kobuk policeman asked girl for sex in

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