2001 – 9/11. Keep your head down. No one will notice you. It’s going to be okay. 2002/2003 – “Go home!” someone screams at
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Tag: President Obama
My President was a Third Culture Kid
Although he may not have meant it, Ta-Nehesi Coates’ article on President Obama in The Atlantic pretty much names him a Third Culture Kid (TCK)
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Reaping the seeds of Wars on Drugs and Terror
Ummm what?! In many places, the police are using laws designed to help them advance the drug war to confiscate property from ordinary citizens
Continue readingIntersection of Sports and Politics: the Rope-A-Dope
Behold the Rope-A-Dope: The rope-a-dope is performed by a boxer assuming a protected stance (in Ali’s classic pose, lying against the ropes; by leaning
Continue readingOn Immigration and Blue Passports
I’m a natural-born US citizen because my mother came to this country (well, Brooklyn actually), stayed with friends, gave birth to me and then
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Delusions of the Other
Back in the 2000’s, during the ignominious reign of President George W. Bush, I remember liberals going berserk trying to figure out how to
Continue readingDrug War Prostitution
Loose items from a tight-leaf notebook: How convenient for the War on Drugs industry that the Secret Service prostitution foul-up occurred just as President
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