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Thaksin hits the unemployment line

Whenever I hit a economic downturn, I review my employment options. Driver in Iraq – life expectancy 3 weeks. Go-go boy at a Pattaya Boytown bar – fired for being too old. Joining the priesthood – excommunicated for not vowing to abuse altar boys. The deposed Prime Minister of Thailand is in a similar position. Past […]

Thai Election April 19 2006 Everyone Sober

Thailand has been lurching from crisis to crisis like a man staggering home from a long night at the bars. In April 2006 PM Thaksin called for a snap election figuring that the people of the northeast would reward his populist policies i.e. spending lots of money on buffaloes, health care, and roads; however he […]