Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

You cannot shame the shameless.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Come on, man.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

“woke” is the new caravan.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Infrastructure week. at last.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

This blog will pay for itself.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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On The Road – arrieve – Sights around San José

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Although I enjoyed San José more than I expected to, our program did include several excursions out of the city. These are some of the highlights.

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This is Póas volcano, a mere thirty miles from the capital, famous for the (highly acidic) blue lagoon in the crater.

It’s an active volcano, so visits are limited to twenty minutes and there are concrete shelters on the viewing platforms in case of an unexpected eruption. You also have to wear hard hats; each tour group got hats in a different color, so the trail from the visitors center to the volcano was a sea of reds and yellows and whites bobbing along through the trees. The last major eruption was in 2017, which closed the park for eighteen months, and some of the trails are still closed. You can see the effects of the acid rain from the gases that are still being emitted on the nearby landscape.

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On The Road – arrieve – Costa Rica, part 2

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More pictures from my time in San José this past summer.

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Some of my favorite places in San José were the farmers markets. There were stalls where you could buy tasty freshly made arepas or tortillas con queso to have with a cup of the local coffee. And I always needed a place to sit down because I inevitably bought more fruits and vegetables than I could comfortably carry.

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On The Road – arrieve – San José, Costa Rica

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This past summer, I took my first trip outside the country since Covid changed everything. I attended a three-week program in Costa Rica as part of my Master’s. Costa Rica had always been on my wish list, though not quite this way; although I spent a few days in the mountains after the program ended, most of my time was spent in San José.

San José isn’t a lovely city, and I think most tourists don’t spend a lot of time there–just a few days stopover on their way to the beaches or the mountains. But I really loved the experience of living there, buying groceries, taking buses and Ubers, going to the museums.

I knew nothing about San José or its neighborhoods, so when I was looking for an AirBnB, I focused on places within walking distance of the language school that was our home base. This meant that I ended up staying half a block from a highway, on the edges of a fairly gritty working class neighborhood where the only restaurants were fast food, and I bought my groceries at, I kid you not, WalMart.

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But I found that San José was a city of surprises. This was the unattractive road I walked on on my way to the school in the mornings and back to my AirBnB in the evenings.

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