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 [...]
I have had a version of this conversation several times in the past month.
Whiteman, with or without education: Public higher education in the United States is free.
Professor Zero: It is not.
WM: You are wrong. The United States is a rich country and the definition of public education is that it is free.
PZ: I have three [...]
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 [...]
Sara Beatriz Guardia gave an interesting talk the other night at the Café Bar Sancho Panza (Grau 209A, Barranco) - a locale I recommend, by the way. The talk on 19th century women writers Clorinda Matto and Mercedes Cabello, focused on the hatred and intolerance Lima society showed these authors. Guardia has written a [...]
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 [...]
PZ: Because this delivery van keeps breaking down, I am not making my deliveries on time. The mechanic recommends repairing the engine, and I have money in my budget to do so. I have arranged to borrow another delivery van while mine is being repaired. I request that you sign this purchase requisition so that [...]
Here is some good information about dealing with workplace bullies. Follow the links. This is the serious and truly useful part of this post. Now we move on to true frivolity, for hair has been flatironed. Yes, flatironed.
I always thought it was a genetic characteristic of some Louisiana women to have this very straight hair [...]
http://pol.moveon.org/mccain10/
10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don’t):
John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia [...]
When my dedicated colleague retires, which is sure to happen soon, what should I do about the honor society? I cannot stand it, I cannot tolerate organizations whose names are comprised of Greek letters, and the initiation ceremony is genuinely Fascist.
As it is the party must be held in my house, as my house is [...]
Clinton has, to be sure, faced a raw misogyny that has been more out in the open than the racial attacks on Obama have been. But while sexism may be more casually accepted, racism, which is often coded, is more insidious and trickier to confront. Clinton’s response to “Iron my shirt” was immediate and straightforward: [...]
