Monthly Archives: July 2008

Bangkok Gridlock Extinct

July 17, 2008 – 10:25 am

Oil prices dropped on the commodity market over $10. A sure sign of profit taking by speculators fearful of the bubble bursting. I invested $20 yesterday in the market. The gas at the pump was .05% more expensive this morning. My wife called from Chai-nat to complain about the pump prices. “Over 40 baht a […]

By Peter | Posted in Bangkok, Drinking, Environment | Comments (0)

Monster Zodiac Befuddles Royal Navy

July 17, 2008 – 9:59 am

I’m pro-drug and judging from the water tests of the London sewers after a Saturday night the professional estimate over 17% of night-lifers are on the marching orders of the Bolivian flake, which most punters consume in order to drink more beer. Of course Any Winehouse likes to smoke a little pipe for recreational release […]

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Ex-Health Minister vies for 2nd Chance

July 17, 2008 – 9:49 am

Outraged by the previous Public Health Minister’s attempts to issue patents to various foreign drug cartels, the Thai people signed over 20,000 signatures to an impeachment proposal and the bureaucrat bowed out in face of such venomous public outcry. After months of silence the deposed minister has told reporters that he thought that cancelling the […]

By Peter | Posted in Health, Thailand | Comments (0)

Truce in Yala

July 17, 2008 – 9:26 am

Over 3500 people have died in Thailand’s southern provinces over the past five years of separatist insurgency at the hands of the military and militants. The violence has claimed the lives of mostly the innocent and successive governments have resorted a a varied of tactics to quell the rebellion including the former PM’s airdropping 1,000,000 […]

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Love Economics by Ben Stein

July 17, 2008 – 8:13 am

AS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated his 96th birthday) used to tell us, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services. What could be scarcer or more precious than love? It is rare, hard to come by and often fragile. My primary life […]

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