Not another day at the office
Video of the police shooting in a Detroit police station.
Video of the police shooting in a Detroit police station.
Here are some more pics from a good day in Bangkok last week.
A heartwarming tale of bloody death and a robbery gone wrong.
Some of you may have posted comments and wondered why they didn’t appear (or think I deleted them). Turns out blogger/google automatically sorts out the spam comments. Problem is all the comments it thinks are spam, aren’t (including some of my own). I’ll try and check that “spam” folder more often, now that I know…
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Inshallah, Hosni Mubarak, the latest in a long line of Egyptian Pharaohs, will soon be history. I think about Egypt more than most people. My wife studied in Cairo and speaks Arabic, I’ve visited Egypt three times, and one of my best friends here in New York is Egyptian-American, from Alexandria. He hates Mubarak, of…
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I’m back in New York. Twenty-one hours of flight back was not nearly as bad as it should have been. And now it’s good to be home, but strange to see snow after a few weeks in Bangkok. Here are some pics from our trip. Mostly of our day trip to the Maeklong market, which…
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Tom Tomorrow, one of my favorite cartoonists, summarizes gun control and killings quite well. Click through to read. “Barring some seismic realignment in this country, the gun control debate is all but settled–and your side won. The occasional horrific civilian massacre is just the price the rest of us have to pay.” As if we…
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Then: Now: [I’m on vacation; life is good. While I’m gone, I’ve scheduled some non-timely non-police filler posts. Regular posts should resume soon.]
Jesse Walker writes about it in Reason. [thanks to Dan K.]
If you open a bar or restaurant in Bangkok, you can expect for the local police commander asking for $500/month. “Why?” a business owner asked. “In case you do something illegal.” “What if I’m not doing anything illegal?” “Better to pay.” “I’m not paying.” We’ll see how this plays itself out. Should you want to…
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