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jorge and the 14 yr old
another hard-working teacher is facing media scrutiny this week. this time it’s professor jorge enrique tapia who’s getting his salchicha lopped off. crap pay, underfunded schools, a curious media, it’s not easy being a teacher in panama. you really have to love kids to do the job. and you might think a life spent loving [...]
the big sticky
al gore won the Nobel prize yesterday. i admit i didn’t see that coming. i had cast my vote for Jenna Jameson. really, who’s done more for the world than jenna? still, if she was tied up, or on a shoot, then al’s a decent pick. i haven’t seen his flick, “an inconvenient truth”, but [...]
strange doings in chiriqui
MANACA, Barú – a bizarre story is being reported in the local papers about a professor at the Professional and Technical Institute of Barú, who urged students to kidnap live animals for a class experiment. the animals were to be stripped of their flesh in celebration of serial killer science week.
how could that be journalism?
“… it’s not just criminal libel complaints, even though the frivolous use of that legal anomaly by “llorones sin cojones” is annoying. No, it’s people invading private lives, scaring children, following my wife in the streets. My daughter gets scared every time a policeman shows up with a court citation. I have to be on [...]
we don’t need another hero
9/24 – both panama and the u.s. were snubbed this week, when it was announced that mad max star mel gibson will be selling his palatial homes in California and Connecticut, and taking his tribe to a wasteland known as the guanacaste province. no doubt ticos are thrilled to have him. it’s said mel has [...]
