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My 7th Grade teacher was a nun. She told the class that at the Judgment Day everyone who ever was will be assembled before God to watch your transgressions.

“Why would god make good people watch bad things?” it seemed an honest question.
“So they can see why you’re going to Hell.” Sister Mary Josef’s belief in […]

I first walked into the Buffalo Bar in 1997. It became my local after I moved to Soi BongKoch. The beer was cold, the open-air atmosphere was a welcome change from the go-go bars’ tobacco-reek, and more than a few of the hostesses were desirable. My wife understandably hated the place and didn’t buy my excuse for frequenting the bar.
 ”I only […]

Two weeks ago my wife’s brother-in-law received a phone call from his brother. His buffalo was sick and needed Bok’s expert attention. It was 8pm. Starlight cannot pierce the black night west of the Chao Phra River and Bok’s eyes aren’t so good, so he enlisted his 16 year-old son, Beer, to chauffeur him on this mission of mercy.

Buffalos […]

In 1972 Bhutan’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuck attempted to reform his country’s feudal economy on a Buddhist spiritual level rather than a capitalistic model. To best judge his efforts the king created a Gross Domestic Happiness Index based on life satisfaction, life expectancy at birth, and ecological footprint per capita. The Wall Street Journal ignores […]

A Nigerian scam letter is seeking suckers with a Thai-accented hoax.

ATTN: DEAR KHUN
MY NAME IS MRS.NOI THAKSIN SHINAWATRA THE WIFE OF FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF THAILAND.WHO HAS JUST BEEN OVERTHROWN ON POWER BY THE THAILAND MILITARY GOVERNMENT ON THE [19TH OF SEPTEMBER 2006.] RIGHT NOW WE ARE ON EXILE IN LONDON, WITH MY HUSBAND. I […]