On The Way We Quit Internships Now: With a Bang
SRSLY, what DOES they expect?
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On The Way We Quit Internships Now: With a Bang
seriously. it's an internship, what does they expect? 'im better than this'. good, then go home. get your ego in check kid.
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On Ciudad Juarez: Collateral Damage
Hi guys. Murder City and anything by Charles Bowden is definitely worth reading. I tend to think Down By the River is still his definitive drug war book, but he's written plenty of other stuff about the border and the southwest that is also worth checking out too.
A few other people have asked about this, so I would say some other good books to read are Mexican Lives by Judith Hellman and The Labyrinth of Solitude by Ocatavio Paz. There's plenty more, but those are good starting points for the historical and social background that makes it even possible to make sense of what's happening in terms of the drug war.
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On Why New Yorkers Should Still Be (Kind Of) Excited About The Knicks
Are we all even talking about the same player? Where does all this suspicion that Amare will 'whine and bitch' because he doesn't like his team come from? I mean Nash is famous for getting down on the team when they lose. But it's to make them be better. Is this cause some sports bloggers take quotes like "I want to be the face of our franchise" out of context? I think the dude just wants to win.
The facts: since his surgery his numbers haven't dropped at all. And his knees haven't bothered him. And his eye was fine. All of these knocks on him are speculative. The fact is he's proven year after year that he can still play.
And you know what? Chris Bosh is a terrible defender too. So is Boozer. Point is, Amare is paid to do what he does every year, which is be one of the premier offensive forwards in the league. For chrissakes, I'm not even a Knicks fan, but considering what was out there for you after LeBron didn't deign to reach his golden scepter down to you, you guys should be happy you got Amare before someone else did. Lee is overpriced.
Again, let's revive this thread in January.
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On Why New Yorkers Should Still Be (Kind Of) Excited About The Knicks
You guys are crazy. Amare has great hoops IQ. He changed his entire game after his surgery, developed a mid range jumper, more finesse. And turned out he could still beast to boot. His game is perfectly suited to your team, and he'll actually make Melo or CP3 WANT to go to new york next year. And it's hard to knock a guy's defense when he plays for a team that notoriously runs on the philosophy that the best defense is a good offense. And he still blocks a shot a game. When he's averaging 22/10 and going off for 40 points in mid-January, you'll be singing a different tune.
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On Ciudad Juarez: The Execution of Democracy in Mexico
I don't think that the US's relationship with Pancho Villa has any relation to today's situation on the border. Nor do I quite understand why some readers seem to feel I'm advocating US military involvement. I'm certainly not.
I do think that the recent foreign policy precedents we've set are worth comparing to how we're dealing with Mexico right now, because they highlight the sort of doublethink we demonstrate in our relationships with countries where US 'interests' exist. And I also think that if there's one place in the world that deserves the presence of UN peacekeeping forces given all the other locations in which they're present, it's Juarez on election day.
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On Ciudad Juarez: Terror In The Valley
Yes, Cevallos' kidnapping is a huge deal. It's also worth noting that it comes on the heels of the supposed arrest of Nacho Coronel Villareal, a major player in the Sinaloa cartel, and the arrest of Chapo Guzman's wife during raids in Culiacan by forces representing the attorney general's office. She was released yesterday with no charges made.
The kidnapping, and from many accounts probable murder, of Cevallos is a big departure from what we've been seeing. There's only a few cartels that could be capable of this kidnapping right now, Sinaloa and the Zetas being the first two that come to mind. Most importantly right now though is that it sends a clear message that the government's war on the cartels is having an effect on them, to the point that the cartels feel they need to fight back so seriously. Elections are upcoming in Chihuahua and Durango and so his political affiliation with the ruling PAN party could play a role. It could be pre-emptive, it could be reactionary. It's hard to say right now, but this will bring serious heat, and it's hard to imagine anyone but Sinaloa or the Zetas being behind it.
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On Real America: Go On, Move Here Then
As some one who also 'moved there', I appreciate this article immensely. Also, as someone who lives in Arizona, I thought that while the previous article Abe started of referring to here was good, it really did very little to take into consideration why such a law might have been passed. A lot of that has to do with federal agendas being focused on an east-coaster's view of an issue like illegal immigration: hasn't affected me for the past decade. Meanwhile, a state like Arizona deals with it every day, and yet everyone rushes to judge them immediately, while looking through a complete different lens. Easy for a New Yorker to say Arizonans are just plain crazy, they're not the ones having their family dog poisoned by human and drug smugglers because it barks too much in the backyard at night. Not justifying this fascist law at all, but states truly are the laboratory of policy, so what did everyone expect? We talk about how reactionary conservatives are, but are the educated liberals really any better in that department? At least this gets a conversation started.
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On Ciudad Juarez: Why the Press Declared a Cartel Win
Juarenses still have immense pride in their city, despite all of this. And on some level, leaving is admitting defeat. But right now there are something like 100,000 abandoned homes in the city, so people are leaving. A lot are going across the El Paso, where many people in Juarez have half of their families and have for generations, another reason to stick around. And lots of others have left for other industrial cities like Veracruz to the south, and probably lots of other nameless destinations.
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On Ciudad Juarez: How We Got Here
Here is an article that explains Free Trade as clearly and truthfully as I have found, with a lot of examples that are perfectly representative of Mexico: http://www.paecon.net/PAEtexts/Chang1.htm.
I'd also encourage anyone interested to look into the history of land reform as the big unfulfilled promise of Mexico to its people. A program that was never really given a chance to work.