October 2009
3 posts
“First Mexican fans began chanting at us. Something like, Gringos Go Home, or,...”
– PBS Frontline journalist Gerry Hadden recalls a trip down to Mexico DF to watch the US team play Mexico at the Azteca.
August 2009
6 posts
My Love — Windy and Carl
“Just so some little group of the bourgeois and...
“Let’s leave this clear,” Mr. Chávez said during a live broadcast of his Sunday television program. “Golf is a bourgeois sport,” he said, repeating the word “bourgeois” as if he were swallowing castor oil. Then he went on, mocking the use of golf carts as a practice illustrating the sport’s laziness.
The government’s broad nationalizations and asset seizures have gone far beyond the oil...
July 2009
6 posts
Yugoslavia: Self-Managing Market Socialism
In 1991, Saul Estrin wrote in the Journal of Economic Perspectives:
For many years the Yugoslav economic system appeared to offer a middle way between capitalism and Soviet central planning. The Yugoslavs’ brand of market socialism placed reliance on markets to guide both domestic and international production and exchange, with the socialist element coming from the “social...
June 2009
10 posts
CVE.
Melancholia IX
“The laws and legal structure in our country do not allow for ballot rigging or...”
–
The Supreme Leader at Friday prayers, June 19, 2009.
“Guiseppe Rossi va fangulo”
May 2009
19 posts
Listen
Please Mr. Johnson
Bad Boy (Having A Party)
I’ve been soliciting sympathy from friends regarding my stolen car. But my friend M went one better. He recounted how his car was stolen a few years ago in Oakland.
A week after it disappeared the Oakland Police call to say they found the vehicle.
When he went to collect it, M found two items of material culture which had not previously been in the car.
A Luther Vandross CD. And chaps.
“NOT to be outdone by the world’s central bankers, some Peruvians have taken to...”
– The Economist.
“I am printing this arithmetic because it is a thing so necessary in Portugal for...”
– Gaspar Nicolas, author of the first Portuguese arithmetic (1519).
“I have often been asked by certain youths…who look forward to mercantile...”
– The introduction to the Treviso Arithmetic (1478) — the first printed mathematics textbook.
Watch
WatchCocalero.
Recommended viewing.
“Rick Rubin.”
Hanifa Walida in collaboration with Mike Ladd.
Jordan River Song.
This is a special, special dedication.
Apparently...
International Workers’ Day.
April 2009
24 posts
Oh man.
“Kidnapping your boss is not legal,” says Mr. Pélisse. “But...”
– Here.
