Monthly Archives: February 2008

Yellow Teeth – Part 1

February 24, 2008 – 9:27 pm

SEMI-FICTION by Pascha Ray I’ve been arrested several times in my life. Age 12 for vandalizing an abandoned missile base. Age 21 for driving over a bed of flowers at a girl’s college. Age 25 in NY for running an after hour club. Age 31 in Paris for writing a love poem on the British […]

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Obama’s Assassinability Factor

February 23, 2008 – 11:59 pm

Hillary Clinton lashed out at her opponent this weekend in hopes of kick-starting her faltering presidential campaign. Her character assassinations have not resonated with any segment of the Democratic electorate. People like Obama. They like him a lot, but black Americans are beginning to get the ‘fears’. The ‘fears’ of Obama’s assassinability.

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Thai War on Drugs 2008

February 23, 2008 – 10:27 pm

In 2001 I was living in a townhouse off Soi Bongkoch with my girlfiend Mem. See the Italian Plan. https://www.mangozeen.com/the-italian-plan.htm The PM Thaksin had initiated a War of Drugs. Death squads were hunting down dealers. Two members of this extra-legal branch of the police confronted my next door neighbor. He was a Thai jeweller. They […]

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Koh Tao to Ban Plastic bags

February 23, 2008 – 9:57 pm

I visited Koh Tao off the coast of Southern Thailand in 1992. It was a quiet koh famous for its three beach island. The water was crystal clear, although the coral around the island was dead from fishing with poison and dynamite. I haven’t been back to Koh Tao since and I imagine that the tourist strain […]

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Start Counting the Days The Big T’ Coming back

February 23, 2008 – 9:43 pm

With his surrogate PM backed by the reborn TRT in the guise of the PPP, Shinawatra Thaksin predicted his much anticipated return to a delirious crowd of 1000 Chiang Mai supporters via a satellite link from Beijing. The exact day will be announced this Tuesday and rally participants expressed their happiness in the Big T’s […]

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