Streaming Professors!

Hit the image for the index; the Plato's Republic lecture is pretty good!

The Torture Begins to Abate

...the torturous memory of years under Cheney, Bush et al.

EXECUTIVE ORDER -- ENSURING LAWFUL INTERROGATIONS

By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to improve the effectiveness of human intelligence gathering, to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in United States custody and of United States personnel who are detained in armed conflicts, to ensure compliance with the treaty obligations of the United States, including the Geneva Conventions, and to take care that the laws of the United States are faithfully executed, I hereby order as follows:

Section 1. Revocation. Executive Order 13440 of July 20, 2007, is revoked. All executive directives, orders, and regulations inconsistent with this order, including but not limited to those issued to or by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from September 11, 2001, to January 20, 2009, concerning detention or the interrogation of detained individuals, are revoked to the extent of their inconsistency with this order. Heads of departments and agencies shall take all necessary steps to ensure that all directives, orders, and regulations of their respective departments or agencies are consistent with this order. Upon request, the Attorney General shall provide guidance about which directives, orders, and regulations are inconsistent with this order....

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 22, 2009

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English 493: Sex in Literature and Film | SDSU | Spring 2009

My new class at SDSU goes live in the morning tomorrow; here's the first text we will study in depth:

New Class Coming this Spring, 2009 @ SDSU

My Spring 2009 class at SDSU promises to be a pretty cool experiment; I am excited about teaching in the mornings again as I used to do for years. That and the subject matter of the class promise to keep things interesting during the Spring 2009 term!

One of the inspirations for this class!? Confession time: a memorable New Order show I attended in Austin, Texas back in the 1980s; in their honor, "Bizarre Love Triangle":

History. ...and some cool stickers!

Spain Weighs in on Obama!

History, Streaming... Obama Obama Obama

The [Mexican] Paper of Record!

KPFK, Arellano y Nericcio from January 6, 2009!

A couple of weeks back, Gustavo Arellano had me on his KPFK radio show and the streaming re-broadcast just went live--if you use iTunes, use this link. Prefer using your RSS feed reader? Go here and hit the January 6, 2009 episode; there's a great sequence on LA's Taco Truck wars first and you can hear my dulcet tones, along with Gustavo's sweet guttural utterances, around the 20 minute mark!

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E.S. chimes in with an SNL skit below--though the joke here is more on Spanish 101 classes than mindless rebroadcast of Latino/a stereotypes!

Nice Piece from the UK on Ricardo Montalban

Web 2.0 "Mexican" Babe Bombshell Design

Little did I fathom just how much the logic of Tex[t]-Mextian figuration would extend into the 21st century and Web 2.0. Click the image to your right and customize your MySpace page and more!

The Assassination of Sheriff James Barton by the Mexican Juan Flores

Gustavo Arellano, of Ask A Mexican infamy, has authored a long, compelling meditation on the case of "Mexican" Juan Flores and the assassination of James Barton in Orange County; Arellano's exigesis puts him at the head of cultural studies chroniclers re-writing the legacies of Mexicans in America. Check it out!

A Minor Distraction Wherein One Learns of Juan Valdez's Lack of a Sense of Humor

More here. Following up on an earlier posting here.

Another Chapter in the History of Race in America...

Capitalistic Xicanosmosis