Category Archives: Love

Thaksins Say Good-bye

November 16, 2008 – 3:22 pm

Bad times got worse for the Thaksins who announced this week that their 32 years of marriage will terminate in divorce. Friends were shocked when the former PM said at a Hong Kong dinner, “We divorced in order to make everybody feel comfortable.” His wife was not invited to this dinner. She was not the […]

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Woman Seeking Man

November 10, 2008 – 6:21 pm

My brother-in-law sent this message about a New Retail Store. My wife loves shopping. For women shopping is a sport on the same level as football only they don’t sit on a sofa watching TV. They are on the field and play to win. It’s my beer money that loses. Wah. Interesting new store format […]

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RUN RUN RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

October 6, 2008 – 2:38 pm

ANOTHER SAD LETTER this one thanks to www.teakdoor.com OK, I met a seemingly nice half-Chinese half-Thai girl about a year and a half ago. We were friends for a month or so and then we started dating. All was good for the first 6-8 months but then she got lazy and stopped studying and started […]

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IN ABSENCE OF AMNESIA by Peter Nolan Smith

August 3, 2008 – 10:50 am

New York in the summer of 1981 was everything it wasn’t in the winter of 1979. The temperature boiled the asphalt. Punk had been replaced by New Wave and somehow the city had escaped bankruptcy. Money flowed on the streets and even the East Village exhibited signs of regeneration, since abandoned tenements can only be […]

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Love Economics by Ben Stein

July 17, 2008 – 8:13 am

AS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated his 96th birthday) used to tell us, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services. What could be scarcer or more precious than love? It is rare, hard to come by and often fragile. My primary life […]

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