Monthly Archives: November 2009

Casas Belli a la Thaksin

November 7, 2009 – 4:58 pm

According to Wikpedia Casus belli is a Latin expression meaning the justification for acts of war and the deposed Prime Minister of Thailand has waved the red flag to a good percentage of his countrymen by accepting an economic advisory position in neighboring Cambodia. Thailand responded to the appointment by pulling its ambassador from Phnom […]

By Peter | Posted in Asia, politics, Thailand | Comments (0)

The Biggest Little City in the World

November 4, 2009 – 8:51 am

Gambling doesn’t run in my family although my great-grandfather supposedly disappeared from the State of Georgia without a forwarding address. His departure forced my great-grandmother and her two daughters to take refuge up north with her uncle in Augusta Maine. This flight from misfortune probably occurred around 1895. No one in my family ever explained […]

By Peter | Posted in 70s, america, hitchhiking, semi-fiction, Travel | Comments (0)

The New York Bricks

November 1, 2009 – 7:57 pm

My love of basketball is well-documented along with my hatred of New York sports teams. The Red Sox’s World Series Championship in 2004 helped salve the long-enduring pain from Bucky Dent’s home run and the 1986 collapse against the Mets. I won’t mention names. Worst was the indignity my Celtics suffered at the hands of […]

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Easy Come Easy Go

November 1, 2009 – 7:44 pm

The bombing raids on Japan reduces the Pacific nation’s industrial base to a near-neanderthal level. America mocked their first import offerings, although I loved the little radio labelled MADE IN JAPAN. No battery. An alligator clip attached to a piece of metal provided enough energy to allow a young boy in Maine the pleasure of […]

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