Category Archives: Liberty

Death for Online Offenses in Iran

July 8, 2008 – 9:50 am

Keeping in step with the past the Jerusalem Post reported that the Iranian parliament has broadened the death penalty to the online crimes of promoting graft, whoring, and apotasy. Previously on drug trafficking and insulting the Prophet were deemed offensive enough to earn the ultimate punishment. Blogging about minority rights and freedom of speech or […]

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Email response from Jocko Weyland

June 15, 2008 – 8:01 am

Sitting in the office overlooking Donald the Trump’s backyard. I almost spun X on the outside speakers, except the Blonde Sweep-over is far up north as Palm Beach is entering the off-season, when the exclusive barrier island is dominated by south-of-the-border migrant workers and ne’er-do-wells like myself. The competition for flim flam is tough, so […]

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Thai Prison Time

May 4, 2008 – 4:34 pm

Nothing says you’re screwed in a foreign country more than getting arrested by the police, although in Thailand if you have money then you’re luckier than most, because you can pay your way out of jail. Bail. But nothing says you’re fucked more than getting send to prison and for a good blog of this […]

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Thai Etiquette (Speaking on the cellphone)

March 18, 2008 – 10:58 pm

Twenty years ago the cell phone weighed over a kilo and looked like it could survive a nuclear bomb. Over the years its ancestors have shrunk to pocket size and people converse anywhere at anytime with anyone. The only time a Thai won’t answer a call in a movie theater is during the national anthem. […]

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Denmark #1 for Happiness.

February 20, 2008 – 2:27 am

I often hitch-hiked across the USA in the 70s. Sometimes for pleasure. Sometimes out of necessity. Pleasure and necessity combined forces in August 1972. A fellow BC student Neil Nepola was visiting his girlfriend, Vickie, in Tulsa. His BMW was our ride and I thumbed through the Midwest spurred by the dreams of driving through […]

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