Many people are surprised when I tell them I’m all for free trade. But only if it’s for real. None of this, I support free trade if my sock makers are protected nonsense. U.S. agricultural and steel subsidies are the biggest hypocrisies … I don’t know how they/we get away with it. I’m into free [...]

Estas son las mañanitas que cantaba el rey David [soy yo]
The board of directors here at El Oso, el Moreno, and El Abogado would like to wish a very happy birthday to our political and judicial correspondent, Abogado. Of course an embarassing photo from the old school is requisite:

This one’s from ‘93. Abo and I, [...]

Most of my life, my cognition has been infected by idealism. It’s a dangerous tendency from which a lot of power hungry dictators have convinced themselves to do pretty atrocious things. When I looked at the world around me, I didn’t see what it was, nor what it could be, but rather what it should [...]

Update:
Well, I obviously put this one up in a hurry this afternoon. Now the Breen comic is below, I linked to HP’s post on Racial Tensions in LA, and I just copied and pasted the election results below. Looks like it’s gonna be a runoff election between Donna Frye and Jerry Sanders. Probably the two [...]

… please stop asking me so many questions. Please stop asking me if I want the meal deal. Or a large drink to go along with that. Or a car wash with my gas fill up. Please stop asking me if I would like another transaction or my card back. Or a pastry to go [...]

Tomorrow is the big race. It’s already 1 a.m. My buddies are coming over at 6 a.m. tomorrow. And I’m not anywhere close to being fit enough to finish this thing tomorrow. The only comfort at all is that neither are my friends. There are rumors of beer and asada afterwards which certainly sounds much [...]

I suppose this is my department. Having spent the last year in law school you would think I would know a thing or two about the law, and consequently would have some opinion about the nomination of John Roberts to the SCOTUS. The truth is I know very little about the law, and have no [...]

A British friend of mine who I met while traveling is now doing exactly that in the United States. So, as I continue to ignore absolutely everything having to do with the Supreme Court (Senor Avocado, digo Abogado, is that not your department?), here is part of an email he just sent me with some [...]

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A favorite pastime of both friends and family is career counseling with oso. It always starts with a emptyish complement: “you have such a natural talent for …” and then gets right to the point, “don’t you think it’s time for you to [...]

Still stalling. Actually, what I’ve been doing - for a minute here and a minute there - is transcribing my old journal from Cuba onto my computer. Boy did I used to be an idiot. I used to care about things so much. sigh.
Everything’s been non-stop crazy since coming back to San Diego. Lots of [...]