Adventures of Isabel

I’m back to Jose Rizal again. For someone whose professed interest is human rights and modern political science, I seem to spend a lot of time studying 19th century intellectual history. (It is all related, I swear!). For all that I find many of Rizal’s political stances objectionable, I can’t help but [...]

I thought I should post…something.
I spend too much time behind this machine these days.
2 more weeks of class…it’s hard to believe.
I’m trying to find some kind of balance between getting too caught up in plans for the summer and neglecting work, and getting too caught up in work and neglecting plans for the summer.
This time [...]

More good news from U.S.-backed dictators around the globe…
Troops under Egypt’s President-for-Life Hosni Mubarak attack striking workers at the Ghazl al-Mahalla textile factory.
This would be the same Hosni Mubarak to whom Bush recently expressed his appreciation for “the long and proud tradition that you’ve had for a vibrant civil society.”Before concluding “I appreciate the example [...]

Juncture. Disjuncture.Slipping through the margins between here and there, yesterday and tomorrow, sleep and restlessness.

Home is something of an abstract concept for me, but this — watching out the BART window as the streets of Oakland roll by, resuming my ongoing struggle with the cashier at the corner store over whether or not I need a plastic bag to carry my juice 20 feet to my door, digging my [...]