Monthly Archives: August 2013

Gay Nyet

August 27, 2013 – 7:55 pm

The 1932 Russian criminal code condemned “muzhelozhstvo” or men lying with men as a criminal act punishable by exile to Siberia for up to 5 years. The police rarely arrested men for this crime against nature, since the hunger that dare not speak its name was reserved for the upper classes of Tsarist Russia, however […]

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Moscow Taxis

August 27, 2013 – 7:42 pm

New York newspapers used to report about naive visitors paying excessive fares into Manhattan. The record was set by a Japanese tourist handing over $2500 and the driver dropped him in Harlem since he wouldn’t cough up another $500 to get him to his destination. Things have improved at JFK, however the age-old practice of […]

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Na zda-ró-vye Nyet

August 27, 2013 – 7:34 pm

Soviet Russia attempted three times to curtail alcohol consumption. The last temperance movement was in 1985-1987 under Mikhail Gorbachev. Vodka and other spirits were rationed throughout the USSR and public drunkenness was punished by prison time. The loss of tax revenue was in the hundreds of billions of rubles and this economic shortfall led to […]

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Thailand Is Not Egypt

August 26, 2013 – 7:41 pm

On August 22 Jonathan Tepperman, managing editor of the FOREIGN NEWS, had a story entitled Can Egypt Learn From Thailand? published in the New York Times. This ill-reserached Op-Ed piece further demonstrated mainstream media’s inability to tell all the news that is fit to print. Thailand is not Egypt, but neither is the Land of […]

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Thai Etiquette (dressing to impress)

August 25, 2013 – 11:53 am

Back in the 1970s Miami Beach was a neglected beach resort populated mostly by ancient retirees in moldy art-deco apartment buildings. The male of the elderly snowbird species ate at Wolfie’s Deli sporting Sta-press shirts polyester plaid trousers and gleaming white shoes, while strolling along the beach, hoping to meet a blue-haired widow with a […]

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