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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers

    2026-06-04 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Emerging as one of the hottest issues in the U.S. today, hyperscale AI data centers have become a magnet for citizen activism

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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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  • “Jealous Badge”

    2026-05-17 elrichiboy
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  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”

    2026-05-16 elrichiboy
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Paula Flores recently retold parts of a painfully long and unresolved story to an audience at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in

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  • “Cry Vegeance”

    2026-05-10 elrichiboy
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  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

    2026-05-08 elrichiboy
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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

2013-12-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

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

2013-12-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

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

2013-12-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

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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The Donkey and the Well: A Parable

2013-11-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

An old donkey fell in a well. The donkey was old, and the well was dry, so the farmer decided

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Paul Krugman’s New Normal

2013-11-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The problem, Mr. Krugman points out, riffing on Larry Summers’ speech to the IMF, is that we’re not all buying

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Worse Than ASCAP

2013-11-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in El Diario, people are killing vendors of pirated CD’s and DVD’s on Juarez streets. A

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