Collaborators / Memoirs / Non-Fiction / Panama Tourist Guide / Video
Tags: Across the Universe, Balbina Herrera, Beatles, Cambio Democratico, Come Together, Obama, Panama, politics, PRD, President, Ricardo Martinelli, trust, Tu Politica, United States, vote
May 5, 2009
The concept of voting for governments started out being all-powerful and integral to a healthy society. There’s an inherent trust in the people, granted by themselves, to know what’s best for them. It’s very meta, and perfect since there really is no omnipotent sheep herder to tell us what to do; most of the world has grown enough to make such pivotal decisions on their own. It seems to me that throughout the decades, centuries even, leaving us to our own devices in a social system that encourages self-growth without a ceiling, policed by ourselves, has made this fairly-simple system a convulsed affair.
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Blog / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: Blog, charming_man, current_marketing, facebook, girls, juan-carlos-navarro, landslide_victory, man_of_mystery, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, panamanian, politics, Porto Diao and Friends, ricardo_martinelli, supermarket_chains, zombie-walk, zombie_walk
October 19, 2007
As an aside to this piece, I feel compelled to share this tidbit with you: I got to work this morning and after settling in and the like, I decided to peruse Facebook. The social netwroking website has been vital to Porto Diao’s current marketing ventures, especifically talking about the Zombie Walk and I’m the [...]
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Articles / Blog / Non-Fiction / Video
Tags: Articles, bill-clinton, Blog, chris-wallace, democrats, fair-and-balanced, fox-news, fox-news-sunday, interview, Non-Fiction, politics, republicans, Video
September 23, 2006
This is the stuff of legend. I love it when someone sticks it to Fox News like that… it’s the best reality TV you’ll ever see. This time around the political blog Think Progress has a transcript of the interview, totally unedited… it’s downright fascinating and full of info, with Clinton feeding it to interviewer [...]
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Blog / Panama Tourist Guide / Rants
Tags: bastardizer, Blog, comments, Culture, flame-wars, gossip, juega-vivo, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, panama-city, politics, Rants, Rob-Rivera, smoth-loves-movies, society
September 18, 2006
This one hits close to home. Last weekend I summoned a superheroes meet at the Hall of Justice when the subject of gossip was addressed. In short, our resident director and lovable bohemian Smoth found out then and there that people were badmouthing him because of the project he’s trying to give sturdy legs, the [...]
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Articles / Rants
Tags: 1989-invasion.-panama-canal, 9-11, Articles, comunism, corruption, dictators, Manuel-Antonio-Noriega, Omar-Torrijos, Panama, panama-history, politics, Rants, Rob-Rivera, september-11, terrorists
September 11, 2006
(NOTE: I get pretty opinionated here. My apologies, in advance.)
It was a Tuesday, if I’m not mistaken. I slept in that day, enjoying a prolonged sabbatical… I don’t remember what happened minute by minute but I do remember the first moments of my day that morning being something like out of a movie; [...]
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Articles / Panama Tourist Guide / Rants
Tags: Articles, corruption, Culture, Martin-Torrijos, Mireya-Moscoso, Panama Tourist Guide, panama-city, panama-history, Panamanians, politics, push-buttons, Rants, Rob-Rivera, society, torrijos
August 24, 2006
There are two sides to Panama that you, as a tourist, should know about: one side’s the one you see in all of the brochures and high-budget commercials you catch via your local cable provider about how we have the best brands in the world at the most affordable prices, the best nightlife in the [...]
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Articles / Panama Tourist Guide
Tags: Articles, buses, corruption, diablo-rojo, juega-vivo, Martin-Torrijos, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, panama-canal, politics, RCM, Rob-Rivera, society, traffic, tv, university-of-panama
August 9, 2006
Panama is a prime example of how what one person does will inadvertently affect everyone else that lives with him in a society. Since the place is so small, the ripples someone’s action makes can be felt in practically every level of life here, and I’ll give you an example of this right now: I [...]
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Articles / Panama Tourist Guide
Tags: Arnulfismo, Articles, clubs, cops, corruption, Culture, juega-vivo, Martin-Torrijos, Memoirs, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, Panamanians, politics, PRD, Rob-Rivera, society
June 20, 2006
Talking to my father yesterday brought this topic of corruption of the the state up. My stance on this “corruption” thing is two-fold, as I’d be somewhat of a hypocrite if I said I was totally against it if I’ve used it before to get what I want faster and better. And in Panama, even [...]
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Memoirs / Panama Tourist Guide / Rants
Tags: 1989-invasion, Arnulfismo, Blog, corruption, Culture, jen-carrasquillo, juega-vivo, Memoirs, men-in-panama, Panama Tourist Guide, Panamanians, politics, PRD, Rants, Rob-Rivera, society, transportation, women-in-panama
June 16, 2006
I met the craziest greek guy last night. I dropped 2SXC off at her apartment where her and the rest of the Canadians were packing to go to different parts of the country and abroad. Brother-in-Arms “Key-K” was there and upon quickly realizing that our roles in this packing debacle were nothing more than taking [...]
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Articles / Fiction / Video
Tags: Articles, auditing, corruption, dianetics, Fiction, john-travolta, L.-Ron-Hubbard, operation-clambcake, politics, Rob-Rivera, scientology, south-park, thetan, tom-cruise, Video, xenu
June 13, 2006
Created by one fellow named Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911 – 1986), both Scientology and Dianetics have amassed a very powerful following, becoming very popular amongst Hollywood with superstars Tom Cruise and John Travolta as they are high-ranking members of this “religion” created by a science fiction writer who was somewhat bankable in the 60’s – [...]
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Blog / Panama Tourist Guide / Rants / Video
Tags: Blog, controversy, Culture, Martin-Torrijos, media, men-in-panama, Movies, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, Panamanians, politics, Rants, Rob-Rivera, soccer, society, sports, the-da-vinci-code, Video, women-in-panama, youtube
June 5, 2006
I spent most of yesterday with a really great girlfriend of mine who’s down in Panama for a while, visiting her folks and what not. Upon watching “The Da Vinci Code” again I must say that it’s not as laughably bad as I thought it was; mind you, the first time I saw it it [...]
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Articles / Movies / Rants
Tags: Articles, Culture, da-vinci-code, Movies, Panama, Panamanians, paradise-now, passion-of-the-christ, politics, Rants, religion, Rob-Rivera, society, team-america, terrorism, united-93, war-on-terror, x-men
May 31, 2006
I want to talk about religion. With so many movies regarding the subject looming in the horizon, as well as those other works of fiction that make their rabid followers destroy maim and kill their fellow man I decided that now was as good a time as any to state my opinion regarding these matters. [...]
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