Monthly Archives: November 2009

Koh Kong – The Last Refuge

November 12, 2009 – 10:23 pm

I’ve been to Cambodia’s Koh Kong more times than I’ve been to Berlin. My passport is dotted with entry and exit stamps to and from the border town on the Gulf of Siam or Gulf of Thailand as the body of water is labeled on the maps of the Lonely Planet Guidebook. It’s a quiet […]

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Earth Saved by a Whisker

November 12, 2009 – 8:44 am

My work schedule from Thanksgiving to Christmas is seven days a week. I’m fine with those hours. More work. More money. Money I will spent next week when I fly from New York to Bangkok to see my families. The 9000-mile trip takes approximately 26 hours. Faster than my great-grand aunt Bert’s journey by sea […]

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Pinko Peacenik Pension

November 12, 2009 – 7:40 am

My older brother likes to tell a story at holiday dinners about my protesting against the Viet-Nam War. His version goes something like this. “I was entering the commons and a group of anti-war demonstrators were lying on the ground pretending to be Vietnamese dead. I look down and there’s my brother. I said ‘hi’ […]

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Xmas in Kabul

November 11, 2009 – 9:19 pm

Millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama with the hope that the new president would withdraw our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. This was far from an easy task. The USA likes the title of # 1. Any talk of downsizing the troop levels smacks of defeatism to the forward strategists of the Pentagon and […]

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Hello Socialism

November 11, 2009 – 8:19 am

The US House of Representatives passed the Democratic-sponsored Health Bill. The GOP criticized the reform plan as the end of capitalism in America. Far-right demagogues Glenn Beck and Russ Limbaugh asked their followers to protest this swing to the left. President Obama responded to their outcry by promoting the bill to the Senate, where his […]

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