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Chico Lingo Blog Archive by Sergio Troncoso

Sergio's blog about writing, politics, and finance is at www.ChicoLingo.com. Visit his list of recommended books at www.LiteraryLatino.com.

2010

June

Illegal is Illegal

 

May

Literal: Latin American Voices

King of the Chicanos

Mr. Fixit

 

April

Arizona

Financial Chess

Returning the Blood to Words

 

March

The Loss of Juarez

The Texas Board of Ignorance

Viejitos

 

February

228 Miles

Camino del Sol

Between Scylla and Charybdis

 

January

The Poetry of HTML

Anger Magnus

The Earthquake in Haiti and Charitable Giving

Harold Hernesh

 

2009

December

Christmas Tamales in Ysleta

Latinos and Jews on Hanukah

Support Free Public Libraries

Guadalajara: Feria Internacional del Libro

 

November

Know Thyself and Buyer Beware

A Week to Remember

Radio Yankee Baseball and Hideki Matsui

Is the Texas Library Association Excluding Latino Writers?

 

October

Texas Two-Step

Mysterious Creatures

Getting Ready For Winter

Why We Are Not A ‘We’

 

September

Diario de Oaxaxa

Yankee Fan

Investment Character

 

August

Half-mud, Half-dead

Costa Rica

Reaching Back In History To Stop Thinking

When Ideology Trumps Practical Reason

 

July

Business News Blather

America in Retrenchment

A Really Long Commute

Our Children in the World

 

June

Why I Write Simply

The Show-Me State

Henri Poincaré

The Last Day of School

Investment Analysis

 

May

Sotomayor, Empathy, and Intellect

East Harlem Café and Hit List Reading

Bertha E. Troncoso

Cinco de Mayo: A Victory for the Underdog

 

April

Pandemic Flu and Xenophobia: A History Lesson

Putting a Price on Time

Easter in El Paso

Planting Apple Trees

 

March

“The Brothers Warner” and Writing to Educate

Burning Down Your Own Neighborhood

Praise for Teachers Past and Present

TV Rants as News, and Undermining the National Dialogue

Bear Market Blues

 

February

Encouraging Kids to Read, Encouraging Kids to Excel in School

Marie Ponsot

Michael Phelps and the Violence in Mexico: Connect the Dots

A Cool February Night

 

January

Rewriting

The Latino Dream with Obama

Killing Latinos in New York

Human Nature and the Failure of Our Institutions

 

2008

December

Sanibel Island

An Ysleta Christmas

Disastrous 2008, and the Need for Simplicity

For an Unofficial God

 

November:

Yin-Yang, Opposition and Balance

600 Pages of Patience

Writing and Investing

Obama, the Mestizo Mutt

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