Maybe it is just me, but it seems that there is something different about the world these days. People seem to be a bit more “edgy” and fearful now than any time since I was born 48 years ago. I mean I didn’t live through the two great world wars or the Great Depression, the […]
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Just moved my office. It seems that whenever you move you generate an inordinate amount of garbage. You know all that “valuable” stuff that accumulates over time that now you don’t consider to be that valuable. So in the name of reducing clutter you just chunk it. Problem is that here in Costa Rica “chunking […]
I ran across an amusing bumper sticker the other evening. However, amusing as it was, it also contained a valuable message. The sticker read, “sembramos un árbol o nos lleva puta.” I wasn’t sure at first what that meant, so I asked my trusted side-kick, Pablo. He told me it means that either we plant […]
I can remember back in my “staunch conservative” days when they were trying to stop logging in the Pacific Northwest because it was endangering the habitat of a certain owl. I remember thinking how absurd to put the brakes on an important commercial activity just because of this little insignificant creature. These days my thinking […]
The whole concept of global warming and climate change can no longer honesty be called just a scientific argument, it’s settled science. However, it continues to be a political argument and that is a shame. Right now the U.S. economy is in shambles and the best that the brightest minds can come up with for a […]
I have been reading the interesting new book by Thomas Friedman entitled, Hot, Flat and Crowded. The premise of the book is that the world is becoming over-heated, over-globalized and over-crowded. He states that what is needed is a green revolution, or what he terms as “Code Green.” Living in Costa Rica I feel that […]
There should be no surprise to readers of this blog that in my opinion Costa Rica is a very unique country. I may have cited the following statistic in a previous post, but it is so amazing that I reiterate here. Costa Rica is a tiny country, with about 0.1% of the land mass of the earth. Yet […]
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