Tag Archives: thailand

Fuck KFC

May 10, 2011 – 2:17 am

Workers rights have suffered reversals around the world. Richie Boy responded to my request for a raise by saying that keeping my job at the diamond exchange was my raise. He thought the line was funny. I did not see the humor. The GOP are attempting to roll back the social advances of the FDR […]

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The Promises of an Exile

May 9, 2011 – 4:47 am

The hot season precedes the monsoons in Thailand. The oncoming cooler weather provides the opposing political parties a good time frame for strategies designed to renew the conflict between the deposed PM Thaksin and the ruling leader of elite or ‘khong chan suung’. The upper classes are fighting to retain their aristocratic privileges, while the […]

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Hot as Blazes

May 6, 2011 – 9:52 pm

The flight from JFK to Haneda in Japan lasted 14 hours. The lay-over was two hours and the final hop to Bangkok took 6 hours followed by a 9-minute taxi ride to Sriracha. My butt was deadened from sitting and my coccyx felt like it had taken a paddling from a nun. I arrived on […]

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AMAZING STOPOVER

March 7, 2011 – 9:20 pm

Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has stressed to the the Tourism Authority of Thailand or TAT that the private investors should shift their investment from budget travelers from Europe and the USA to the 1st-class tourists from the upper-class of the wealthy class. Previous PMs have spoken the same words for the last 20 years […]

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The High Cost of the Thai Drug War

February 1, 2011 – 8:23 am

Last month over 300 Thai cops invaded Soi 6 off Pattaya’s Beach road in search of evil-doers. No search warrants. No habeus corpus. No rights for the sex workers of that inglorious street. The cops conducted urine tests of hundreds of women and after the test results came in positive, they arrested almost 16 women […]

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