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On my 21st Birthday I gambled my way across Nevada with my good friend Andy Kornfeld. I won in several smaller casinos and hit Reno up about $500, which was a small fortune in 1973. Andy struggled to convince me to quit while I was ahead, instead a mini-skirted blonde waitress offered free drinks. I […]

In 2001 I was living in a townhouse off Soi Bongkoch with my girlfiend Mem.
See the Italian Plan.
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The PM Thaksin had initiated a War of Drugs. Death squads were hunting down dealers. Two members of this extra-legal branch of the police confronted my next door neighbor. He was a Thai jeweller. They accused him of […]

I visited Koh Tao off the coast of Southern Thailand in 1992. It was a quiet koh famous for its three beach island. The water was crystal clear, although the coral around the island was dead from fishing with poison and dynamite. I haven’t been back to Koh Tao since and I imagine that the tourist strain […]

With his surrogate PM backed by the reborn TRT in the guise of the PPP, Shinawatra Thaksin predicted his much anticipated return to a delirious crowd of 1000 Chiang Mai supporters via a satellite link from Beijing. The exact day will be announced this Tuesday and rally participants expressed their happiness in the Big T’s […]

2bangkok.com reported that The Nation, Thailand’s long-running English newspaper will change its format to a business journal in the coming month rebirthing itself as ‘Thailand’s Largest Business Daily’. Xpress the online free news will take over from the Nation, although a look at the website shows its content as news lite.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/xpress/
2bangkok.com reports no comment from […]

Prime Minister Samak stunned older Thais with a denial of any involvement in the 1976 student massacre at Thammasat University, despite his holding the position of Interior Minister. His claim of one death during the repression further confounded Thais, who wondered if they were living on the same planet as the PPP PM.

Maybe aliensabducted the young minister, as […]

Barack Obama’s wife declared last week, “For the first time in my adult life I’m proud to be an American”

The American media burnt with indignation.
“What about the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Space Shuttle, and_________”
Number 3 stumped the pundits, until the US Navy knocked down a falling spy satellite travelling at 18,000 mph with […]

In BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE the director Michael Moore compares Detroit’s perchance for murder with Windsor, its Canadian counterpart across the river. The Motor City’s murder annual rate runs into the hundreds, while the mayor of Windsor couldn’t place the last violent demise for several seconds and then said, “Yes, it was two guys from Detroit. They got […]

Yesterday Pattaya bars were closed at 6pm in accordance with Thai tradition for Maka Bucha Day. The punters huddled in darkened corners of their rooms with clandestine bottles of booze, praying for the dawn to bring relief from the ban of alcohol sales.

Surprise.
Tomorrow is Election Day for the Thai Senate. Bars close today at 6pm […]

Makha Bucha Day is a national Thai Holiday commenmorating the day that Lord Buddha announced to his gathered discilples the prinicpals of  Buddhism with its core plea for man to love other men in order to achieve Nirvana. Banks, schools, and public offices are closed today, however the Samak government showed love means not taking a day […]