January 2011
11 posts
Playing with fire
I hope I don’t get burned. We’ll see.
December 2010
15 posts
San Diego Fil-Am college professor stabbed to...
Via LA Times Local December 29, 2010 | 1:50 pm
A popular professor at three San Diego-area colleges was stabbed to death last week in his apartment in Tijuana by an unknown assailant, according to Mexican authorities.
Henry Abalayan Acejo, a 45-year-old instructor of Filipino-language courses and English as a second language, died on the night of Dec. 18, according to a statement released...
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Filipino graduate student from U.C. San Diego... →
criticalfocus:
Mark Farrales fled to the United States with his family to seek political asylum after the life of Mark’s father, a prominent lawyer who spoke out against government corruption, was threatened by two gunshots to the head in 1990. Mark Farrales’ father, Jaime, had just announced a bid for congress during that time. Mark was only ten years old when he left...
A short ride through NYC.
Bittersweet day.
john-christian:
DREAM Act failed to pass in the Senate.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repealed.
I’m glad to see Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repealed but there’s still a lot of work to be done and justice to be earned. DREAMers don’t give up! The DREAM Act will pass some day. In solidarity with my undocumented brothers and sisters. ISANG BAGSAK.
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply...
– H.L. Mencken, The American Mercury (24 April 1924)