I recently watched an interesting whodunit called 'Columbus Circle'. Story is about a reclusive woman in a high end Manhattan apartment that finds out a scam crafted by her new neighbors that involves her. Of the recent news headlines in the US there have been multiple instances where such scams or affairs are coming to light and its never clear whodunit or whatdunit.
Oddly multiple box builders or box sellers respectively called Hewlett Packard and Best Buy, have had their chief executives resign over alleged affairs and scams that involved using company funds to support their love lives. So also with sports personalities that dominated the coaching and playing fields across major franchises in America.
Combine this with drug doping and wire tapping and other poking and prodding and ex-government types lying (under or near or over oaths) its a veritable circus. The joke is on the reading public not much different than the one pulled by the likes of Facebook where the product is You! Because at the end of the day, one where everything is largely transparent or so we thought we really do not know if the scammer or the scamee are indeed what they purport to be - what with everything being allegedly suspect yet not proven; potentially to the detriment of all concerned.
Our first foray into Central America. That elongated isthmus that forms the geographic boundary between two vast continents of North and South America. Specifically landing for NYE 2026 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Capital city for this region that does not have its own army, instead relying on its big bro the Estados Unidos to the north is a metropolis of approx. 500K people. Largely wilderness and with both a Pacific and Carribean/Atlantic coast the country is rich in bio diversity. In Spanish it means the rich coast so named by Columbus landing in early 16th century and being mesmerized by the local tribes sporting gold jewelry. Our stay included visiting the foothills of a large strato volcano called Arenal and enjoying the naturally heated thermal baths for a while. Lunching amidst lush forest and watching indigenous species of avian noise makers fly overhead. Toucans, some sort of pea hens, multiple song bird species completed the spectacle. Iguanas and a lonel...
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