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Hurricane Irene is an entirely new–perhaps annoyingly postmodern–phenomenon. It is clearly the first of a super-breed of Eastern Seaboard mega-storms, caused by increasingly higher temperatures of the temperate area of the Middle Atlantic. It has a much wider swath than tropical hurricanes, and it brings with it the possibility of tornadoes, destructive torrential wind and […]

Keeping It Surreal, posted with vodpod Today Puerto Rico police superintendent Emilio Díaz Colón angrily told reporters at a press conference that there was no investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice of violations of civil rights on the island territory. This despite the fact that there has been one going on for several years, and […]

Imus Refers To Chris Wallace’s Mexican Son-In-L…, posted with vodpod Four years after Don Imus slurred the Rutger’s women’s basketball team, he was at it again with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace. Midway into their jocular back and forth about the wedding of Wallace’s daughter in Mexico City, he referred to Mexican conceptual artist Miguel […]

Here’s an impressionist painting of Joel Klein in the back seat with the Murdochs. The story this is linked to finally explains some of his ties with the Empire, as well as Barbara Walters. Is it me or are we tired of hearing about the thorny contradictions of apparently liberal or moderate figures like Klein […]

This remarkable moment from the Murdoch father and son testimony at the House of Commons’ hearing today was an amazing act of political theater orchestrated by a comedian who is also a leader of an activist group named UK Uncut. Amazing because it evoked the transgressive shock of, say, a violent attack, but, in the […]

Frankly I’m not sure how to react to the news. I’m down here en la isla trying to figure out some things about what it means to be Boricua in difficult times, when people are getting their patio furniture ripped off while the old lady downstairs sleeps through the whole thing, or maybe she was […]

Rupert Murdoch is a bad guy. A really, really bad guy. Of course, many of us have been saying this for years. The utter evil embodied by his media enterprises was so complete and neatly tied up into a big, garish booby prize for tabloid trash consumers that many of them actually felt he was […]

I’m as guilty as anybody else for continually re-hashing the aftermath of the Latin pop explosion, but there was something about that moment that transcends the understandable “that wasn’t Latin music anyway” argument. This time I was asked to frame the debate using 9-11 as a kind of symbolic end of the optimism many of […]

With this post I’m going to straight up tell you that it is completely borrowed from an entry I found here, a blog or website called qiibo.com, which professes to be about technology, cinema, and Puerto Rico. What they did was post a photo of a glass (half full, half empty) and then two videos […]

This is a fruit that’s called a corazón. Got it from my backyard, both literally and figuratively.  I found it to be useful to convey something about my homeland. At this point, it’s an afterthought, but for what it’s worth, a recent op ed published by Progressive Media Project: Obama’s visit to Puerto Rico lacked […]