the ArmChair Thoughts

I’ve gotten out of school and now there is the pressure to make some money, and even spend it, and more spending. It quickly reminds me of a discussion I was involved in explaining that more money wasn’t equal more satisfaction when some teen complained about how little she made at her job. Here is [...]

The last post I exposed on the illusion of ‘getting an education’, the western education that is. I expressed some disgust and let’s say ironically, it all comes down to living by the rules to survive. As much as I might think that there are better alternatives to learning than attending college(s) and piling degree [...]

I have now spent considerable amount of time in the great United States of America but before I or anyone else gets too absorbed in the American culture, I trackback on some of the veil over our eyes through a stand-up piece by my favorite George Carlin. I hope someone in power doesn’t read this, [...]

This is a quite geeky and interesting, proceed with caution. Photo by chrisheuerI’ve at some point talked about the the new relationship that social media is making us define (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and more importantly, the subject of our privacy has become the subject of discuss now. Now, someone 3,000 miles away can know [...]

There was Haiti and now Chile, guess whose fault it is…I’m guessing global warming, theologians, and academicians, I’m kidding about the academician part and the rest remains valid, global warming and theologians, faux alike. Maybe I’ve lost my sympathy–but people are dying by the thousands everyday and the economist in me is saying: “maybe it’s [...]

Yesterday, I was imagining things and some might think I take religious hate rather too far. But let’s me share this video and you might understand a bit of where I’m coming from: You maybe don’t see the need to watch it, or you probably did and wonder  what religion has up its selves. The [...]

While still in Black History Month, something comes to mind: niggers and blacks. I was chatting with one of my Asian friend a while ago wondering on my [then] upcoming visit to China (considering I’m black, consider me naive or whatever and if you’re curious on how my China trip went, you can read about [...]

My school (UMASS Boston) will be resuming soon and of course that invites my criticism of school and schooling, to which I always argues there is need for a change in paradigm of our we approach ‘learning’. Learning in the sense of the ‘real’ world and the ‘academic’ world. I’m still surprised that even as [...]

While I can’t make the perfect world happen, I at least can imagine it; or I can at least imagine what I can do to make the world, in my imagination, perfect, or better put: If we were a Painter, We’d paint a picture of a perfect world. Some sort of – no evil, better [...]

I was with a group of friends the other day and some one raised the question on what how ‘mission’ HERE is. And one of my friends noted, our mission here is where we are now—there is no point on considering the past, or the future; the only place you can be is where you [...]