Category Archives: Love

THe Future of Mankind

November 24, 2009 – 9:59 pm

Technology is advancing at a blinding speed in the 21st Century. Someone born in the last century would not recognize the modern world. Many of the changes have been technological; cellphones, computers, lasers, and GM crops. These innovations have led to drastic social upheavals as the peasant classes have descended on the cities to achieve […]

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In the Words of Albert Finney

October 2, 2009 – 6:40 pm

Few films are as bittersweet romantic as the comic road movie TWO FOR THE ROAD starring Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn. The two play star-crossed lovers traveling throughout Europe. Their honeymoon brings them to a country hotel in France, where they observed older couples speechlessly dining together. “What kind of people don’t speak to each […]

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Thai Jealousy

May 13, 2009 – 10:59 pm

I’m an old man. My body, not my heart or mind. At 56 I’m well past my mind, so I had to laugh when my Thai girlfriend told me on the phone that she was very jealous or ‘huung’ that I was in Russia. “Whatever for?” I had been faithful for my extended absence. “Russian […]

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Roe versus Wade in Thailand

January 4, 2009 – 5:21 pm

Jan. 22, 1973 the US Supreme Court ruled in the case of Roe v. Wade, that most anti-abortion laws violated a constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. Pro-life and Pro-Choice proponents have been arguing this issue for the past 35 years without any significant roll-back on its ruling. […]

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Fat not Knocked Up

January 4, 2009 – 5:09 pm

Last year my girlfriend informed me that she was pregnant. “You want baby?” It was a good question. Mam had 2 other kids. She was 24. Saying yes meant taking on extra obligations, but there was only one answer and I said happily, “Yes, I want a baby.” Not everyone shares this bliss for Thai […]

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