Monthly Archives: June 2008

Mercer Consulting’s World City Ratings

June 12, 2008 – 9:55 pm

Every year Mercer Consulting comes out with a list of the world’s most livable cities. Zurich, Switzerland repeated as #1, while co-Swiss city Geneva was tied for #2 with Vienna. Most of the 50 cities are drags, such as Tokyo and Singapore, but I would live in several of the top 50 in a heartbeat. […]

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HENRY VIII by Alison Weir

June 12, 2008 – 6:44 pm

In my last book review I ask the old question, “Can you judge a book by its cover?” Not all the time, however the Tudor King’s smirking smile on the cover of this non-fiction account of his life warns the reader that Ms. Weir spends a lot of pages building up the atmosphere of the […]

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Rainy Days on the Gold Coast

June 12, 2008 – 5:48 pm

The weather on the Gold Coast is a mystery. If I look out to the ocean in the mid-morning, the sky is clear. Turning around the horizon is crowded with ominous thunderheads aglow with lightning. This isn’t anything like Pattaya at the end of the hot season. This is Palm Beach. I quickly cross South […]

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White House Pot Scare

June 12, 2008 – 3:27 pm

I smoke pot. I started at 18. I stopped for a while during the time the government poisoned the marijuana crops of Latin America. I resumed with the advent of home-grown sinsemilla, although the potency of that reefer called ‘killer’ rendered it less user-friendly than the lightweight grass of 1970 and I refrained from inhaling […]

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Pattaya’s Mayor Vows to Improve City

June 12, 2008 – 12:24 pm

Pattaya’s new mayor and his 24 newly elected councillors celebrated their elecetion with a brilliant new campaign to improve the city of Pattaya. Here’s seven of the ideas spawn from the brainstorming session on June 2 1)Providing four car parks for large tour buses to prevent them entering the city. This innovation would free pedestrians […]

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