Category Archives: Rich

Fuck Ferrari

2008 ended badly for me, when Thai cops raided my house in Pattaya with a warrant citing me with copyright infringement of Ferrari designed clothing. Their investigators stood on the sidewalk, as the chief inspector from the Cyber-Crimes Unit in Bangkok approached me. His underlings had hands on their guns. They wanted me to bolt [...]

Running In Place

Mayor Bloomberg has not announced his candidacy for president, but his position as the in the top twenty wealthiest men in America has given him an outside shot as a third party option financed by his own money. In order to gain recognition in the rest of the country the illegally-eleected mayor has waged a [...]

Worse Than A Bad Hand

The epic monsoon floods on 2011 are slowly receding from the record highwater marks throughout the country. Hundreds of Thai citizens have perished from the inundation. Industry and agriculture have suffered from the disruption of the infrastructure. Inner Bangkok escaped the catastrophe as promised by the government, but the outskirts joined the Central Thailand underwater. [...]

Froide Comme Une Reine

The Financial Times, which is the foreign rival to the Murdoch-onwed Wall Street Journal, has reported that Buckingham Palace has joined millions of other homes throughout Britian in ‘fuel poverty’ in which a homeowner pays more than 10% of their income on fuel. Oil prices in Britain are at an all-time high as commodity traders [...]

What’s Yours Is Ours

AN OLD JOKE FROM THE 60S. A rich man comes out of his mansion and spots a young man camping on his lawn. Filled with indignation he strides up to the squatter and demands him to leave or else he’ll call the police. “How did you get this land?” The young man remains seated by [...]