London bombing

What a pitty what has happened in London I join my voice to the blogsphere condemming this horrendous attack. I woke up late today, and my first thought was should I use the Metro today or call in sick. I guess chances of having simultenous attacks in different cities is still low. [...]

This country is about dreams

Great Gloria Stefan and Emilio Stefan have been just awarded a prize acknowledging their musical careers. Only the second winners of this prize for musical achievement and it’s a proof of the ever increasing influence of Latinos. Cheers to Latino’s and America, as Emilio Estefan said, “this country is about dreams”. [...]

Happy Birthday America

I am watching on tv the concert at the mall celebrating the 4th of July. The best part so far is the Star Wars insignia musical theme played on the national mall by the National Symphony Orchestra led by conductor Erich Kunzel. Just watching it on tv with the backdrop of the Mall [...]

Another fallen government in Bolivia?

I think is a matter of time before Bolivia breaks up or becomes another story of a failed democracy. Spanish newspaper el Mundo is telling that Mesa has abandoned the presidential palace. Lets see what happens next. At least in my native country Ecuador means a new government. The problems that Bolivia [...]

Richard Posner Chief Justice?

I am probably navigating rough waters with this comment, especially being new to this country and to judicial issues, but certanly this comment by PrawfsBlawg does an interesting analysis of why Richard Posner would make a good case for a Supreme Court Chief Justice. Being my inclinations on the libertarian side I admire a [...]

Deepthroat

Ever since I came to this country I have always been amazed by the Watergate scandal and how a newspaper literally brought down the Nixon government. What made me even more curious was the unknown identity of the so called Deepthroat that was the whistle blower. The infamous name used in a 1970’s [...]

BTW

I haven’t said anything about the current elections results.  To my friends on the loosing side, my deepest sorrows, I have heard that Canada is a nice country (altough a little bit cold) and as an inmigrant myself I can say, that inmigration is the only solution when one’s view of a doomed future is [...]

Life after the elections

Ever since the elections finished on wednesday (after the defeat and winning speaches)  I noticed on my bloglines blogroll that the updates on some of the blogs that I read went down like a snowball.  It might be that everybody is tired after the election blogging, but the WSJ offers a reason why this might [...]

1984 in Venezuela

It seems that the Orwellian State state in Venezuela is taking a strong hold of all elected positions. This last weekend were the regional elections. The opposition somehow disilussioned with the previous recall referendum results opted to keep fighting the results rather than focussing on the coming regional elections. They even encouraged [...]

After the election

I have mentioned before that I am not to happy with the choices that the US has for President. I don’t like Kerry for his ideas and his demagoguery and on the other side I think that Bush has not done a good job, and even though that I can not say that we shouldn’t [...]