Category Archives: Drinking

Thai Bar Rules

August 3, 2018 – 5:59 am

When I first arrived in Pattaya 1991 go-go bars listed a set of rules on the wall. No photos, no fighting, no guns, no hand grenades, no durians. A few bars even had dress codes. Shirts and shoes were required by male patrons. No bare feet were allowed on the premises other than on stage. […]

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Someone to Blame for Me

February 7, 2018 – 9:01 pm

In the 1940s American doctors infected hundreds if not thousands of Guatemalan prisoners, inmates, and common folk with syphilis. The same doctors had subjected blacks Americans to a similar treatment. Millions more were exposed to atomic bomb fallout in the 50s and hundreds were dosed with LSD by the military. Medicine gone mad without any […]

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Rocket Madness in Isaan

January 19, 2018 – 9:06 pm

Every year Thailand’s northeastern provinces hold a rocket festivals to entice the Naga spirits to deliver the right amount of rain for the rice growing season and rocket enthusiasts from every corner of Asia flock to scenic Yasothon to participate in the missile mayhem with their specially constructed ‘bang fai naga’ rockets. No one wears […]

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Killer Shine

November 14, 2017 – 10:13 am

A flatlander was driving down a road back in the hills when a hillbilly stepped out into the road and leveled his rifle at him. The flatlander stopped and the hillbilly motioned him out of the car. Then he handed the rube a jug and said, “Drink it.” The man tried to refuse but the […]

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The Cost Of The F-35

November 7, 2017 – 10:35 am
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