From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Day Tripping

2009.Aug.07 Friday

 After staying in Buenos Aires, visiting San Antonio de Areco can be a definite culture shock. Located on the pampas just 113km away from the city, this tiny town, with its low colonial buildings, narrow cobblestone streets, and quiet parks, moves at a very different pace and is virtually silent on a weekday afternoon—if not [...]

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Nueva Andina

2009.Aug.04 Tuesday

 …scholars generally assume that the campesinos (peasants), as well as the urban poor, either did not know, understand, or care about the pressing political issues of the day. That is incorrect. Urban and rural popular groups not only knew and understood the advantages and disadvantages of what has been called the social compact of the [...]

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King o’ Salt

2009.Aug.02 Sunday

 One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.” – Abraham Maslow, psychologist and philosopher Buenos Aires – I have a pretty high tolerance for salt and in [...]

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Mindless Memes

2009.Aug.01 Saturday

Here’s one of those mindless memes that’s going around via one group of bloggers or another – I extended it a little – the original was to type the first three letters of your first name into Google and list/link the first five sites that popped up – I figure, despite its ubiquity, there are [...]

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