Author Archives: Jorge Costales

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About Jorge Costales

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

Achieving a Fair and Fast Sudden Death

Tim Harford is another one of the interesting young economists which use their profession to make sense of things in the real world. Like a possible overtime game in the Super Bowl. OK here’s the problem; In NFL overtime games, … Continue reading

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How Senate Republicans Saved Obama

If we are lucky, that will be the headline four years from now when people look back on Obama’s first term. If we are not, the fiscal stimulus plan will emerge largely unchanged in the Senate and become law. I … Continue reading

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The Ghost of Orange Bowl Past is Smiling

A historical injustice is about to be corrected. A Miami Herald article [copied at end of post] notes that plans have been finalized for another stadium to rise where the Orange Bowl once stood. In her informative The Business of … Continue reading

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Disenchanted With Castro’s Revolution

A WSJ article takes a hard look at life in Cuba today for a 56 year old woman and her family. An excerpt: In 1981, with the blessing of her husband, Ms. Vallejo used an opportunity of a trip to … Continue reading

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Wayne Huizenga — Great Yield, No Grace

My take on Wayne Huizenga’s effect on sports in Miami is: great personal yield, no public grace. That is an obvious imitation of the famous line penned by a fellow Cuban, former MLB player and then scout, Mike Gonzalez. Gonzalez–partially … Continue reading

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Must love dogs and The Dooze

Bill Simmons describes what it was like to get, have and lose a great pet. A golden retriever nicknamed, The Dooze. A sample: We had our new roommate within two weeks: an 8-week-old puppy named Daisy, or as we ended … Continue reading

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Game Theory and the Pirate Puzzle game

I found an interesting blog about game theory, named Mind Your Decisions. As a way of getting you in game theory mode–the mode in which nothing is as it appears–here’s a joke: The dumbest kid in the world A young … Continue reading

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Today, somewhere in West Bengal, India

My future caretaker turned 25. I wish to send a happy birthday salute to her today and a message to the her in my future. Please stop slapping me when everyone leaves the room. Saludos

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Being Human

Prayer for the Unborn Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil, those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life. Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant … Continue reading

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Should You Love Your Work?

Fr Valle’s homily of Jan 25 says yes, to the question of whether we should love our work: I. Paul and no horse Today’s feast gives us, visually speaking, one of the most misquoted passages in Scripture. We characterize conversions … Continue reading

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