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About Jorge Costales

- Cuban Exile [veni] - Raised in Miami [vidi] - American Citizen [vici]

Think we really know about any public figure?

The tragedy of Jerry Sandusky’s crimes highlights something always useful to recall. How much we don’t really know about public figures. Imagine you had been asked to answer the question below in secret, as part of a Malcolm Gladwell-like ‘blink … Continue reading

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Ted outing and multi-cinema civil disobediance

Definition of multi-cinema civil disobedience [MCCD]: Watching one movie at a multiplex cinema, while having purchased a ticket for another. MCCD is a conservative [or right-winger, take your pick, it’s the other side than runs from labels] movie lover’s rational … Continue reading

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Take Nick Hornby leave the cannolli

There can be a certain melancholy to discovering writers whose work you love. Are they dead or in their prime? Sometimes dead is better, like when there’s an accessible body of work. I love Tom Wolfe, but after I found … Continue reading

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Who is Eric Holder?

It is with indescribable joy that I watch Eric Holder and his defenders blame his latest incompetence on race. Just deserts. Just a few more months. Below is a reminder of who Holder is from a Maureen Dowd column in … Continue reading

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To suffer the pain of what is hidden

In the middle of reading Nick Hornby’s clever book about books, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, I came across an amazing letter from an unexpected motivational speaker, Anton Chekhov. Below are portions of Chekhov’s letter, written in 1886, to his younger … Continue reading

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LeBron hating and the Nanny State

Stop the LeBron hating?  Are you kidding. As I’ve listened and read Heat fans reactions to the team’s 2nd championship, a consensus seems to have emerged that we want LeBron haters [see a partial list here] to stop their criticisms. … Continue reading

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Payback on Planet Bron

Dateline July 2031: Today marks the 10th anniversary of The Announcement — coming 10 years to the day of The Decision — that Aliens are real. Turns out they have long been among us and possess a bizarre sense of … Continue reading

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Finals Game 2 MVP: Russell ‘Cantinflas’ Westbrook

Miami Heat fans have much to be thankful for. Especially in our opponents. Carmelo Anthony’s selfishness.  Amar’e Stoudemire’s reverse pyromania. Carlos Boozer’s contract. Derrick Rose’s jump shot. Rajon Rondo’s personality disorder. To quote Yoda, ‘… there is another.’ The Finals … Continue reading

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Scientology’s Bombshell: Xenu vs Zena on PPV

In a stunning development, the Church of Scientology has decided to spin off its core beliefs into a separate entity whose relationship with Scientology would only exist through monitored arm’s length transactions. The new company, Thetan But Not Beaten [TBNB] … Continue reading

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Leftist Administration gets an election year fix

Lefties in the Obama Administration [redundant?] are no doubt constrained by reelection efforts, so at this stage they are reduced to using visas as a way expressing their solidarity with all things on the left. The Wall Street Journal’s Mary … Continue reading

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