Going hiking is like visiting ghosts, I get lots of time to reflect on the past. This Saturday I visited California’s most notorious (yet little known!?!) bandit ghost-Tiburcio Vasquez. Vásquez pulled the race card, claiming that he was driven to commit his crimes because of norteamericanos discrimination against the Californios. He even went so far as insisting that he was a defender ofContinue reading “Vasquez Rocks: Making Off Like a Bandido”
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The Dictator Dictates Failure- Or maybe just mediocrity
The Dictator that keeps dictating the terms must be applauded, however, Cohen’s Dictator sort of did a belly flop. More people were discussing its ramification to the American Muslim community, but like I suggested in my previous review of the movie, its a bit of a flop because it disappoints in so many ways. WellContinue reading “The Dictator Dictates Failure- Or maybe just mediocrity”
Mirror, Mirror On the wall, who’s the Dictatoralist of them all?
If you go looking for bigotry and prejudices about Arabs and Muslims at the theaters you may not have to look further than “The Dictator”, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s newest satiric installment. Though premised on a mash up of popular dictators from around the world channeled into a single non-Arab-yet-very-Arab-dictator, the movie promotes a farContinue reading “Mirror, Mirror On the wall, who’s the Dictatoralist of them all?”
Corner Office Shaikh 