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Tell Your Fucking Mexican Friends To Get The Fuck Out of Shenandoah

by Jose 05.21.2009

… or you’ll be laying next to him. That’s what Luis Ramirez’ murderers told his friends after killing him. And that’s why this post-racial talk is simply pure nonsense. I get it: we have a Black president, and we have the first____ and the first ____ in ____ and _____. While I get tired of [...]

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Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable

by Jose 12.29.2008

There’s a famous quote that journalists learn every so often when it comes to the news: ” The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” – Finley Peter Dunne It seems to be the general theme that I come across when I talk to newsies and other affiliates about [...]

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Hooray Accountability …

by Jose 12.06.2007

I like sitting down listening to Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever” and thinking whether they had a worry in the world while smoking their drugs in their recording sessions. At the time of that song’s creation, they were already considered geniuses, so they didn’t really have “bosses,” or anyone to really hold them accountable outside of [...]

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A Tale of Two Lower East Siders

by Jose 10.30.2007

I’m a resident Lower East Sider. I don’t teach around here, but my heart, soul, and body still resides here. So when news from this area comes out, my ears perk up. We’ve had some of the more peculiar and iconic events happen around these parts, yet they hardly get recognized because 1) people didn’t [...]

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1,572 Since Mission Accomplished

by Jose 08.20.2007

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” signs off his show with, “That is Countdown for this, the _ _ _ _ th day since the declaration of ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq. I’m Keith Olbermann. Good night and good luck.” As of today, it’s been 1,572 days since that day (5/1/2003), 1,608 days since [...]

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100 More Years of Solitude

by Jose 04.22.2007

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been reading 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez (great book, just takes some getting used to), and the central theme of the book is the idea that life simply works in cycles: it doesn’t just move forward, but plays hopscotch with its past. While that may [...]

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