Adventures of Isabel

A new semester, and as usual I’ve spent most of the past week running from office to office trying to persuade people to bend the rules for me.I really can’t decide whether there is something wrong with me or something wrong with the system that makes this such a pattern. As far as I [...]

Estrada: RP suffering for defying Vatican in 2001 uprising
“Claiming vindication, former president Joseph Estrada said on Monday the country has been suffering because the late Jaime Cardinal Sin did not heed “God’s voice” and, instead, backed the Edsa II People Power revolt, despite a Vatican order to stay away.” more…
I first read this story [...]

Irises, in January.Everytime I remember to look around, this city astonishes me.

Flo — activist, photojournalist, friend and inspiration — has just posted a beautiful new photoessay from the Spanish-Moroccan border at Melilla.http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/9398
“This portfolio is part of a bigger project focused on the look of borders become manifest, the look of the land and the people when the arbitrary line in the sand takes form. These shots [...]

I highly recommend “The Arroyo Imbroglio in the Philippines,” political scientist (and former teacher of mine) Paul Hutchcroft’s new article in The Journal of Democracy to anyone interested in a lucid summary of a century of Philippine political history. In an impressively concise article (13 pages), Hutchcroft manages to address most of the key [...]

A while back, I posted on the Glorietta Mall explosion in the Philippines.The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism has just released an interesting report on the case:
Glorietta 2 blast: Bomb or gas? by Avigail OlarteWHILE the Philippine National Police (PNP) considers the case closed, other experts continue to doubt the results of the investigation on [...]

Don’t get me wrong — I can’t stand any of the presidential candidates. But there’s still something about this guy that takes it to another level.I’m not even all that old, and I can still remember a time when this would not have been considered acceptable political discourse.And of course, the cheering crowd is probably [...]

This friendly looking dinosaur at a truckstop in Cabazon, Southern California:

Holds a creationist museum in its belly.

You climb up its tail, and are greeted by exhibits like this:

Finally, when you reach the top of the stairs, you arrive in the mueum/gift shop, where a variety of dinosaur paraphenalia is sold, and a slack-jawed adolescent stares [...]

As promised, a photo of Beautiful Downtown Bakersfield.

The first section of Steev Hise’s film “On the Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez” can now be viewed online at  http://panleft.net/cms/ote-podcast1
He will be poisting a new segment every Monday for the next 8 weeks — definitely a film worth checking out.

For more information about the film, visit http://political.detritus.net/juarez