Monthly Archives: May 2007

Arrest Karl Rove – 2007

May 25, 2007 – 2:57 am

Dennis Kucinech is the only American politician brave enough to demand the impeachment of President Bush. For this act of courage the Ohio congressman is vilified by Fox News and GOP stalwarts. His fellow Democrats distanced themselves like he had farted a month’s worth of beans. To be honest the chances of this call gaining [...]

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Sophie’s Bar Phnom Penh – Songkran 2007

May 25, 2007 – 12:58 am

Nick and I had scheduled our Cambodia trip to avoid Songkran in Thailand. My wife thought this voyage was simply a sex tour, but we passed through Koh Kong and Sihanoukville without a passing glance at the local talent, mostly because S-ville’s Chicken Farm has been dramatically reduced by the port expansion and the bars [...]

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SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD

May 25, 2007 – 12:25 am

I wrote about the Seven Wonders of the World in February 2007 http://www.mangozeen.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1048 My list consisted of the Potala in Lhasa, the funereal Ghats of Varanasi, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Sanctuary of Truth in Pattaya, the Chartes Cathedral, the moon-lit combs atop Tikal’s pyramids in Guatemala, and Sophie’s Bar in Phnom Penh. Over than 45 million [...]

By Peter | Posted in Beauty, Travel | Comments (0)

Whales for Sale USA

May 24, 2007 – 11:48 pm

Two humpback whales befuddled by the backwash of mobile phones in San Francisco Bay swam 70 miles up the Sacramento River. Oceanologists have failed to seduce the errant sea mammals to the open sea with love sirens from other whales. They remain stranded upriver. Japanese researchers have offered to lend California marine biologists a sonar [...]

By Peter | Posted in Environment, Food | Comments (0)

Thaksin McDonald Purse Snatch Victim

May 24, 2007 – 10:51 pm

McDonalds has initiated a legal proceeding against the Oxford Dictionary for the addition of ‘McJob’ into its latest edition. The fast-food giant claims that its jobs are not meaningless and the term coined by Douglas Copeland should be excised from the dictionary. Someone without a McJob went to work at a Moscow franchise and stole [...]

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