9 de Mayo, 2008

Our Death Will Be Inside Our Homes

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: Iraq, The Petroleum Wars, War, War Crimes, war on terror

AND IN THE LAND THAT FLOATS UPON OIL, U.S. Forces and their subordinates are murdering the children of Iraq at the fastest rate possible. Though it's not quite fast or deadly enough to save them from the looming WMDs that endanger them all—the ones that required our military to...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 11:39 AM.
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29 de Abril, 2008

Home of the Brave, Sweatshop of the Free

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Historia , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Resistencia | Tags: hypocrisy, Kahlil Gibran, Power to the People, Protest, RNC, University of Montana, Youth

TAKE the power back. This is unacceptable. The eight University of Montana students who stormed Main Hall earlier this month, staged a sit-in protest in the campus president's office, and were arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing will get a lesson in consequences from UM administrators on Tuesday. Charles Couture,...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:30 AM.
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14 de Abril, 2008

Luna Turns Two

Categorized under Living With Lunita , Parenting , día festivo | Tags: familia, Lil 'Nita, Oregon

YESTERDAY was my youngest hija's birthday. She turned two. Some (birthday and otherwise) pics behind the cut....

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:32 AM.
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2 de Abril, 2008

They Break Laws to Make Laws

Categorized under Frontera , Parenting | Tags: Arizona, borders, bush, Califas, Chertoff, DHS, Environment, New Mexico, putos, Texas

OH, but we're not really surprised, are we? WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of this year, federal officials said...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 6:55 AM.
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21 de Febrero, 2008

Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home

Categorized under Comida , Corazón , Cultura , Literatura , Parenting | Tags: Adoption, Authors, Comida, Kim Sunée

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY, full of poignant struggle, sensuality, sorrow, happiness, and food. In 1973, when she was 3, her mother abandoned her in a crowded South Korean market swirling in gray mist and banana flowers. “Although memories are distorted,” she writes, “there are true sensations one doesn’t forget,...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:28 AM.
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8 de Febrero, 2008

Poison for Baby

Categorized under Parenting | Tags: Breastfeeding, Children, Environment, Health, Plastics, Public Health, Toxins

I WON'T PRETEND, as a male, to know what it's like to choose personally between breastfeeding and bottle feeding. And I do understand there are sometimes physical or practical matters that simply make breastfeeding untenable. And I also know that bottle-feeding is sometimes done using breastmilk. But when it...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 4:15 AM.
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31 de Agosto, 2007

Don't Scare Them Into Health, Fool Them Into Consumerism.

Categorized under Ciencia , Closing in on Bush , Parenting | Tags: Breastfeeding, bush

In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of insulin syringes and asthma inhalers...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 7:45 AM.
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17 de Agosto, 2007

Teaching Children Important Truths

Categorized under Parenting | Tags: Change, Children

WHILE they play! Fantastic! Buy some for a child near you! After all...it wasn't so long ago when children were learning something different about color:...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:16 AM.
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25 de Julio, 2007

When I'm A Big Kid, I'll Run All Day (Regresara)

Categorized under Parenting | Tags: familia, Lil 'Nita, My Life, YouTube

TODAY IS ONE OF MY SOLID WORK DAYS (a day when mi novia has off and can watch Lil 'Nita all day) so that means its a poquito posting day until quizas esta noche. Meanwhile, here is a video that I shot yesterday while at the park with Lil 'Nita,...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:54 AM.
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24 de Julio, 2007

How to Punish the Good

Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Parenting | Tags: derechos de mujeres, putos, Que Viva Las Mujeres

FROM AMIGA BLACKAMAZON: Human rights defender at risk Nigerian, Human Rights Defender and founder of The International Centre for reproductive health and Sexual rights (INCRESE) in Niger State, Dorothy Aken’Ova has been ostracised and intimidated by family and community because of the work she does. Social activists and Frontline HRD...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 11:32 AM.
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19 de Julio, 2007

A Beautiful Impact

Categorized under Parenting | Tags: Change, Hope, Nature

Since we have no mains electricity as part of the No Impact experiment, we also have no TV. Last week, someone asked me how we entertain Isabella without one. In the comments to that post, someone said that they like to take their kids hunting for fireflies. [...] At...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:42 AM.
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7 de Julio, 2007

GREED: American as Vat-Fried Apple Pie and Hamburger Brain

Categorized under Cultura , Parenting | Tags: Fast Food Nation, Greed

Look, it's ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way of survival of the fittest.'" —Ray Kroc, creator of the McDonald's...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 12:34 PM.
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24 de Junio, 2007

Lil 'Nita Jams Out

Categorized under Parenting | Tags: Lil 'Nita, My Life, YouTube

SINCE LIL NITA CANNOT REACH across 88 keys, she runs up and down the length of the keyboard to hit her solos. Here's a short vid of her accompanying a Tracy Chapman tune while others do the packing (and filming). She was going for a minute or two, but stopped...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:08 AM.
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28 de Mayo, 2007

Skinless

Categorized under Chronicles of Nezua , Parenting | Tags: brown pride, Change, My Life, White Supremacy

SO HEADLINING IN THE ALL-NEW CHRONICLES OF NEZUA is the fact that "The Skinhead" won't be coming home this weekend after all. Now, I know it's a bit dehumanizing to call a man "The Skinhead," and I don't call him that in my everyday life. It's really only how...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 6:56 AM.
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19 de Mayo, 2007

Excursions

Categorized under Parenting , Stories | Tags: My Life

IT'S JUST ME AND LIL 'NITA for usually about a quarter to a third of a day, and sometimes, all day. She's a lot of fun to watch as she begins to find the many pieces of the world, as she assigns meaning to them, as she responds emotionally...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 7:05 AM.
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11 de Mayo, 2007

Imperative

Categorized under Corazón , Memicry , Parenting | Tags: Hope

RIFFING ON A MEME brought my way by two powerful and intelligent women I answer now What is the great imperative of my life? And it is, simply, to be Free. To remember how to be free. To remember I am free. To help others be free. To re-make...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:19 AM.
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2 de Mayo, 2007

For the Good of All: US-Iraq Must Fail

Categorized under Corazón , Iraq the Casbah , Parenting | Tags: Dare Not Speak Its Name, Format, Hope, Iraq

AND THE IRAQ OCCUPATION BE DRIVEN OUT and the attempt to sow seeds from the American invasion collapse—in an incontestable and dramatic fashion. As it is doing. While every statement from the Right or the Left presupposes the idea that Of Course I Hope it Succeeds, I must disagree...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 5:29 AM.
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22 de Abril, 2007

Truth is My Law

Categorized under Corazón , Ley , Parenting | Tags: Soul of the World

IT IS EXPECTED that we take the laws seriously in this land. That we integrate them into our personal moral systems. We tell our children to do this, to trust us on our superior ability to filter out what is good and what is bad. And we hand them...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 10:30 AM.
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19 de Abril, 2007

How to Create a Rape Victim

Categorized under Parenting , Stories | Tags: derechos de mujeres, Soul of the World

I WAS WAITING FOR MY SANDWICH at Subway®, and I heard a woman on the phone with her daughter. I knew it was her daughter because she was on the phone from the time my bread was cut in half to the time it was slid into a wax...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 11:29 AM.
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