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Archive for February 2010

Bad

In El Mundo, Sports on 18 February 2010 tagged olympics, World_Cup with no comments

I love this Colbert poster. Classic! It’s too bad that NBC has flubbed their coverage of the Winter Olympics. Any genuine sports fan will tell you that sporting events are made to be seen live and not pre-recorded. Give me a break! We’re in the same time zone for crying out loud and I’m forced [...]

In God’s Country

In Central Valley, México, Vivir para contarla on 17 February 2010 tagged Detroit, immigration, México, Michigan with no comments

A common argument that I hear when discussing immigration is that immigrants should stay in their home country and create change there, (whether that needed change is due to a dictatorship, narco-violence, human rights violations, etc.) instead of looking for change here. I always come up with some counter argument essentially glossing over this interesting [...]