Not that you’ll read about this on the Movimiento’s own site, but apparently Guillermo Malavassi Vargas, the new party president, has just resigned his position after not even two weeks on the job.
The official line so far is that there was a conflict of interest with his position as dean of a private university. […]
We have this concept here in Costa Rica called deuda política, which translates to political debt: basically, money that the government gives political parties after the election, split out proportionally according to the percentage of votes they get, so that they can pay up debts incurred during the campaign.
One of the first things that I […]
I just read on CNN that a tiger attacked and killed a woman during a photo shoot.
No shit! It’s a huge feline savage predator, its instinct driven in through millenia of evolution, and people get surprised when it doesn’t act like a cute pussycat. Ten years from now the headline will be Pet […]
Robert Heinlein once pointed out that with mathematics, history and languages you could understand the universe. Marginal revolution is a blog that features intriguing economics-related posts, helping you keep up to date with at least the first two of items of that curriculum, but all too often they preach to the choir and […]
The Movimiento Libertario had a national assembly yesterday, and Otto Guevara’s faction has won (that link is in Spanish). Raúl Costales, the hard-working ideologically correct party secretary, is no longer with the group, although it is still unclear if he was removed or he resigned. Kattia Chavaría, the movimiento’s treasurer an […]
Today’s the 2485 anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae, where King Leonidas I of Sparta and a few hundred soldiers faced Xerxes of Persia and over 600,000 soldiers. Impressed with the spartans’ bravery, Xerxes offered to spare their lives if they would lay down their weapons.
Leonidas replied molon labe: come and take them.
There’s an article in CNN Money asking Does it pay to be a flirt?. Regarding flirtatious activity at the office, it states:
The newspaper, citing a Tulane University study, said 49 percent of MBA graduates polled admitted that they have tried to advance in their careers by sometimes engaging in certain sexual behaviors, including […]