Now some long distance buses in Peru play videos. The choice of videos, however, is really shocking, they are so violent. I am wondering whether this is just my luck or whether it is a generalized phenomenon.
Yesterday, while driving through for hours through some of the most depressing industrial slums I have ever seen, including [...]
Everyone knows not to be in Lima in winter, because of the weather. I would add to this that if you are traveling (as opposed to renting your own apartment), not to be in Miraflores in the month of July because it is inundated with “backpackers” and other people you left Europe and the United [...]
If you have spent any time at all in Lima in winter - and I suspect the poverty of the early 20th century, although different from the current poverty, was about the same - you see why Vallejo was able to write such depressed poems about this city. The pollution, the traffic, the general deterioration, [...]
If I vote for McKinney and McCain wins, don’t blame me, blame Barack Obama and the Democrats who refused to look seriously at candidates who offered alternatives to Republican policies!
I am irritated at Obama and at a few other things, but I am actually in an excellent mood because I have been hanging out at [...]
Gonzalo Portocarrero (among others) says we should look at racism in daily life. The other day we went to a rather fancy lunch at RUSTICA and I noticed that many employees - many more than in most restaurants - were Afro-Peruvian. It had to be intentional.
Given the atmosphere the restaurant creates I decided this was [...]
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This is the Fourth of July, an excellent day to be un- “A-merry-can”, as the Field Negro would put it, so I choose it as yet another day to oppose the Reeducation industry and its belief in the virtues of powerlessness. Check this out:
Feeling powerless is no fun. A lack of control can make the [...]
Whiteman: How long has it been since you were last here?
Professor Zero: Nine years.
WM: Do you find it has changed?
PZ: Not greatly. It is different from the early eighties when I first came, and from the mid eighties when the Shining Path activity was intense, but I noticed those changes already in 1999.
WM: You are [...]
On that study of women faculty at UC Irvine, a friend at a SLAC says that the most important thing at her job is to be considered a good teacher. For that, she must be liked by other faculty, and for that, she must be traditionally feminine. For that, she cannot be research oriented.
That set [...]
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In the 20th century, what I disliked about the patriarchy was being told, simultaneously, that I would not do well enough to satisfy men, but also that I must not do well enough to scare them or any other authorities. In the 21st century what I dislike about authoritarian society, aside from corporatization and Wal*Martization, [...]
Does your home telephone work well during the daytime? Mine does not.
For years people have been telling me this but I did not believe them, as I was always able to make calls. Yet there are many I do not receive and at last I believe it.
During the day the Internet is also very unreliable [...]
