One Premise and Three Theses on the Visibility of Sausage Making
Premise: It goes without saying that NiNis aren’t hanging on the edge of their seats watching every twist and turn of the MUD sausage-making saga. Nor, for that matter,...
What's good for the goose is good for Mirand-er
A tragedy in eight acts: Act I – Contrary to the wishes of sensible, prescient, and highly intelligent voices in the opposition opinion-sphere, the opposition umbrella group decides...
Clear as MUD
"Chamo, lets do an Oswaldo Álvarez Paz week…I mean, why not? It’s Semana Santa, there aren’t going to be any other news…" ...
Back when pluralism started at home...
http://www.youtube.com/v/5S3ODF2123U&hl=en_US&fs=1& There’s plenty to sink your teeth into as, thanks to the miracle of YouTube, you watch Oswaldo Álvarez Paz’s 1993 campaign biopic with the (dubious) benefit of hindsight. ...
Last chopper out of Saigon
The recent imprisonment of Oswaldo Alvarez Paz, for nothing more than a snooze-inducing statement of the obvious on Alo, Ciudadano, brought back memories of OAP’s ill-fated attempt at...
World's Most Meta Candidacy Announcement
Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes. In the very same interview that got Oswaldo Alvarez Paz thrown in jail, he said that he would not seek nomination to...
Everybody Already Knows Everything
[Note: If you came looking for fresh insights or proper analysis, you might as well move along. This one’s just one long rant. Click through only if you’re up...
To hunt a rat
Today we learned that the webpage of everyone’s favorite satirical rodent, El Chiguire Bipolar, has been hacked. This coincides with a wave of international publicity that has seen...
But ... what did he say?!
The largest shareholder in Venezuela’s sole remaining opposition-minded TV channel, Globovisión, has been arrested. (Update: apparently, the court let him out on bail, sort of) His alleged crime?...
Autocracy in Infinite Regress
As the regime fattens up its list of political prisoners by shoving the president of Globovisión, Guillermo Zuloaga, into jail, you can’t help but reflect on the sheer uselessness of...
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