Oct

17

poker pro arrives in panama city

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normally i play poker over at fulltilt. i prefer the online experience. the games are faster, cheaper, safer, and most importantly, i win more than i lose. the downside is that i’m sitting at home alone in my shorts and funky guayabera. win or lose that doesn’t leave me with much to write about.
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Oct

15

jorge and the 14 yr old

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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 kids should […]

Oct

13

the big sticky

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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 it […]

Oct

4

strange doings in chiriqui

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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.

Oct

3

attack of the killer bees

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9/30 - a local man and his dog were attacked over in chorerra today. the man, ricardo perez, 67, died after being stung repeatedly by a gang of africanized honeybees.
if you caught this sad story on the tv news you might have noticed the camera pan, not so subtly, over to a tree full of […]