Category Archives: 2010s

Fried Rat A La Ban Nok

November 4, 2011 – 5:02 am

Last January I returned to Thailand to celebrate my daughter’s birthday. Ban-nok was cold that time of year and one night my ex-wife’s brother-in-law, his friends, and I drank rice whiskey around a blazing bonfire. Halfway through the second bottle of lao-khao a young man entered the circle of light. A long small-bore rifle rested […]

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The Drug Of The Right

November 2, 2011 – 9:59 am

When I was in high school in the late-60s, I steadfastly refused marijuana on the grounds that it was illegal by law. A good friend was working in a drug store. We did reds, whites, and Ludes. They were FDA-approved drugs. My mindset was not much different from the present population of America addicted to […]

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Virgin Galactic Tours

November 1, 2011 – 6:23 am

The Space Shuttle ATLANTIS flew its final mission to the International Space Station in July 2011. Its landing signaled the end of the four shuttle fleet’s service to the nation and the world. The decision to retired the orbiters was taken by President GW Bush, who considered the $4 billion budget would be better spent […]

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# 7,000,000,000

October 31, 2011 – 3:55 am

The population of the world in 1952 was 2.635 billion. My birth in May of that year was lost in the infantile deluge of America’s Baby Boom. I was anonymous to everyone, but my family. Today the population clock hit seven billion and the Philippines declared a baby born at a Manila hospital was baby […]

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The River Is Wide

October 29, 2011 – 1:40 pm

In August I took my daughter Angie to the highest point in Thailand. Doi Inthaton was wraithed by fog and I lent her my jacket, even though I had bought her a bright pink poncho in Chiang Mai. She liked anything to do with me. Angie is my daughter. She and I climbed to the […]

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