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After having left him for dead at an African train station, the least I could do is link to this blogging superstar from Santiago, Chile. Rivaling his friend, the Chilean senator Fernando Flores, Leo Prieto is probably the closest thing to an online celebrity that South America has. And [...]

Today I was in such a zoned out state. Part hangover, part general mental confusion, my brain felt like a semi-permeable gel, only trapping the most arbitrary of observations. I went through all the regular motions: dropping my sister off at school, morning coffee and NY Times, going to the gym, picking sister up, IRC [...]

Global village is a term, coined by Marshall McLuhan in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy, describing how electronic mass media collapse space and time barriers in human communication, enabling people to interact and live on a global scale. In this sense, the globe has been turned into a village by the electronic mass media.1
There are [...]

Picking up the paper this past week and avoiding an article about our southern border would have been like picking up a gallon of prune juice and avoiding the toilet: difficult. As chance would have it, during the media blitz brought on by a couple high-profile surveys and two governors’ declarations of states of emergency, [...]

I’m seriously blown away. I just got done talking with Eduardo who was on a slow conection in Manta, Ecuador and then Neha who was just starting her day in England.
The connections were crystal clear.
So, let’s talk.
My gmail account is osopecoso AT gmail DOT com
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conservative christians, pat robertson, killing socialists, hypocrisy

The September issue of Harper’s just came out. Here are seven fine cut lines of Harper’s Index:

Increase in the total value of U.S. residential property since 2000, expressed as a percentage of GDP: 60
Increase in the value of all U.S. stocks between 1995 and 2000, as a percentage of GDP: 59
Chances that a U.S. job [...]

September 23, 2003
Cienfuegos, Cuba

This morning, after breakfast as I was on my way out, the husband of the Casa called me over to introduce me to some friends, a couple, the husband of whom is a philosophy professor. We promised to talk later tonight and so on the way over here I began to think [...]

In the NY Times Business Day section there’s a long feature about the explosion of private schools catering to teenagers with behavioral problems. It’s in the Business Day section because some big name investors see it as a sure fire way to make some big cash. It makes sense: there’s no shortage of over-working, wealthy [...]

Last night, probably technically this morning, for about one hour on the I-5, the west coast’s most beloved freeway, I reached that sort of fulfillment that can only come around, so I guess, if your brain is literally drowning in seratonin. Call it what have you: universal oneness, a spiritual moment, talking with god. I [...]