From Wordsmith’s A Word of the Day: diglot (DY-glot) adjective Bilingual noun A bilingual book, person, etc. [From Greek diglottos, from di- (two) + -glottos, from glossa, (tongue, language).]

Note: This post is the third in a series. Here are parts one and two. And so the first year of tutoring at Gompers continued on. Every Tuesday and Thursday I would wake up at 5:45 am, go for a quick jog, shower, make my coffee and drive the 30 minutes to Gompers High. There [...]

Update (6:50 p.m.): Elena makes a good point. I make it sound like you have to upload a photo of yourself. Not at all. You can upload whatever you want. Most people upload the normal cliches: Che, Bob Marley, the Zapatista star … whatever. You can upload a picture of your butt cheeks walking for [...]

Let’s take a one day break from the minority conservative series to give a round of applause to “independent” music and film for making its way into the mainstream. Those of us who appreciated indie before Modest Mouse was crooning for Nissan or even before Common was rapping for Sprite (and that was all of [...]

Note: This post is the second in a series and continued from this one. Star Parker, the president of CURE, recently wrote an Op-Ed piece entitled The Credibility of Black Conservitivism which acknowledges the mistake of popular Black conservative, “Armstrong Williams‘ poor judgment in not revealing being compensated by the Department of Education to promote [...]

With the help of HP, I’m beginning to better understand the mentality of the minority conservative. I don’t mean to generalize – obviously minority conservatives are just as varied as WASP liberals – but for this series I’m going to make some general observations. A lot of liberal minorities call conservative minorities sell outs. They [...]

Torreon Zacatecas Aguascalientes Guanajuato San Miguel de Allende Queretaro Acambaro Mexico City Cuernavaca Oaxaca Salinas Cruz San Cristobal de las Casas

Abogado is known for speaking of himself in the third person. He works for “The Man” and says it turns out he’s not that bad a guy. In his spare time Abogado is known to shark old retired guys out of their soon-defunct social security money playing shuffleboard and parlaying the winnings on ping-pong matches. [...]

The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail Here you can download music by me, Hari Rex (aka El Moreno). I will try to post new songs every other week or so. They will vary from well thought out recordings, to mediocre demos, to veritable garbage. I will write a [...]