STREETS OF BANGKOK

I’m back from Bangkok.

I have pictures, though not very many. And most of them look like this.









I know, it’s not exactly National Geographic or Lonely Planet, is it?

Still, you know, you get what you pay for.

Anyway, it was nice to go back. I hadn’t been to Bangkok since 2008, partly due to political violence and last year’s floods. I’m not sure if the area I was in was directly impacted by either, but the city overall seems back to normal (though I’m sure there are a lot of individual cases where things are anything but back to normal).

Street level,

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BARACK OBAMA AND THE SUPREMES

While I was in Bangkok last week, America was dithering over Obamacare vs The Supreme Court Justicees, with the Tea Party protesting outside the Supreme Court, demanding that the Supremes strike down the law, and generally not getting arrested or pepper-sprayed in the face like some people. (And I’m not saying they should be. I’m just saying.)

Naturally, as a US citizen I am legally required to express my opinion about anything political (preferably as loudly as I possibly can), and so I get a lot of requests on every social media site I have an account for to comment on the Obamacare case.

My standard response goes like this: “Given that yr asking me to express my opinion about a complex 2,700-page bill that regulates an industry I know next to nothing about, my opinion is that it’s complex and I know next to nothing about it.”

Which of course never satisfies anyone. “But what about the protesters? What about the mandate that you must buy insurance? What about universal healthcare in general?” Etc.

Okay. Fine.

( Here’s what I got ... )

Court is adjourned,

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