Thailand Webzine, Bangkok Pattaya Thailand
HM the King of Thailand was released from Siriraj Hospital Wednesday after 26 days of treatment to take up residence at Chitralada Palace.
I watched his departure on TV.
At first he was wheelchaired down a corridor in view of his adoring subjects. The mere sight of their monarch was enough to send the thousands of well-wishers into […]
Ramadan is the holy fast month for Muslims. The word comes from Arabic for intense heat, scorched ground, and shortness of rations. Summer in the desert. During this period Muslims refrain from eating or sexual intercourse from sunrise to sunset and are also are urged to desist from the more venal weakness of human nature […]
Bring me the head of Osama Bin Laden!
The Pentagon increased the reward for OBL to $50,000,000 tax-free Dead or Alive.
No takers.
The al-Quada mastermind responded to this ante with video inviting the West to embrace Islam or else. Faced with those two options I regretfully have to inform the world’s most wanted fugitive that I’ll have […]
Last year John Mark Carr was arrested in Bangkok for the murder of the 8 year-old Colorado beauty queen. The US media conducted a full-coverage blitz on the pedo-epidemic in Thailand. Placards from the US Government sprouted on telephone poles in Pattaya, warning American adult men against having sex with anyone under 17. The FBI […]
Nai comes from a Ban Nok in Isaan. After his military service he boarded a bus to Pattaya like thousands of 20 year-olds before him. The beach city provided an easy life and he succumbed to the allure of its vices. Even the good are weak in Pattaya. Nai told his parents he worked in hotels […]
“I have nothing against Christ. It’s your Christians I hate.” This remark has been attributed to Saladin. I fell the same way about most religions except beer-worshippers.
“Every day is Beermas.” My mate Nick declared with the fervor of a suicide beer-drinker. I’m an apostate Catholic. I don’t believe in God, Jesus, or an afterlife and […]
I was brought up a Catholic. The nuns taught that the Pope was infallible ie incapable of mistakes. My friends and I used to conjecture that God’s rep on earth didn’t fart, need an eraser, or pick his nose. The priests heard about this talk and condemned us as heretics.
“God speaks through the Pope.” The pastor’s words rang […]
Phra Payom Kalayano, the well-known abbot of Wat Suan Kaew, is selling edible ‘’Jatukham’’ (four-bite) cookies to ridicule the public craze for Jatukarm Ramathep talismans. The senior monk yesterday introduced his new Jatukham cookies of the ‘’Chukkhid 4 Kham Ruay Khot’’ (Bear in mind four bites and you will become super rich) model at his […]
The 2000 US Presidential election ended in controversy. A recount in Florida was denied by a GOP governor Jeb Bush and a partisan Supreme Court ruled any further legal proceedings a waste of time.
After his inauguration GW Bush plodded along like a C-student surprised to find himself president of the high school senior class. Nothing was supposed […]
My superstitious Irish heritage was reinforced by an upbringing in New England. Witches have hung from Salem trees and ghosts haunted the abandoned farmlands near my suburban Boston home. Now Salem’s occult market reaps millions and the cow pastures have been razed for giant houses. Fat people don’t have time to be scared by the […]
