Victorino de la Vega y Alcantara

• Gender: Male
• Location: Amaurot Heights : Oklahoma : United States Minor Outlying Islands

About Me

Professor de la Vega (VC, KCB, KCIE; Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur; Congressional Medal of Honor; San Serafino Order of Purity and Truth, 4th Class) is Chair of the Thomas More Center for Middle East Studies, at Amaurot, where he teaches econometrics and applied anthropology. An acclaimed expert on (failed) neocon policy analysis, he has published over two articles and five postings in leading parts of the blogoshpere and beyond. His website at http://mideastmemo.blogspot.com contains free advice on ethical issues, as well as informative musings on political strategy, democracy in the Middle East and the decoration of Dick Cheney’s undisclosed location. Professor de la Vega's favorite readings include The Epistles of Paul to Timothy notably the following advice: "As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines"(1 Timothy 1:3-5)

Favorite Movies

• The Fortune Cookie
• Some Like It Hot
• La Règle du jeu
• Per un Pugno di Dollari
• Il Buono il Brutto il Cattivo
• The Cincinnati Kid
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Sleuth
• Bananas
• Sleeper
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Un Eléphant ça trompe énormément
• Taxi Driver
• Blade Runner
• They Live
• Reservoir Dogs
• The Long Kiss Goodnight

Favorite Books

• The Complete Works of Thomas of Naj' Hammâdi
• Utopia
• Gargantua
• Rinconete y Cortadillo
• Diwân Imrû'l-Qays
• Poems of Al-Hareth Bin Hilliza
• Gulliver
• Candide
• Le Paysan perverti
• On Heroes
• Civil Disobedience
• Notes from Underground
• A Rebours
• Ouvert la Nuit
• Fermé la Nuit
• Tintin chez les Soviets
• The Economics of Imperfect Competition
• The Mechanical Bride
• Nuqtatt Al-Bedâyah
• Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
• Culture Is Our Business
• Political Order in Changing Societies
• Tower of the Elephant & Other Stories

My Blogs	Team Members
THE MIDDLE EAST MEMO