tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56199782011-04-22T08:48:06.113+06:00B by TomTomVnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1108531336129937482005-02-16T10:55:00.000+06:002005-02-25T15:28:48.076+06:00 B is for BAAAAACK.
After a year of silence, I'm back with a brand-new site and an even more mysterious name. Please check out สาระสนเท่ห์. (In Thai only for the moment, but the English version will be ready any minute now.)
Update Ladies and gentlemen, สาระสนเท่ห์: The English Edition.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1070453503926689542003-12-03T18:11:00.000+06:002003-12-04T09:45:04.856+06:00
B is for BYE FOR
NOW.
After almost a month, you've probably figured this out by
now. (Anyone still there?) Sorry for waiting so long before
making it "official".
I started this blog because I have thingsTomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1068735859832195512003-11-13T21:04:00.000+06:002003-11-14T20:22:36.466+06:00
Better to stick with Garfield
Having committed myself to being a lifelong student of
English, I try to be perceptive to new developments in the
language. Recently I've noticed a few of instances of the
expression "Bizarro world", the latest of which in this Dowd
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1068570735307977922003-11-11T23:12:00.000+06:002003-11-11T23:12:12.936+06:00
Promoted
First day in office for
Wattana Muangsuk as full-fledged Minister of Commerce. A
case of blogs getting results?
No? I see you don't believe the Blogging One.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-106857060467909862003-11-11T23:10:00.000+06:002003-11-11T23:10:02.330+06:00
And you complain about your academia?
I'd long been itching to write about Thirayuth Boonmi, but had never thought it worthwhile until reading
a glowing profile of him a few weeks ago in the Bunkum Post.
A professor at the prestigious Thammasat TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1067888243233566712003-11-04T01:37:00.000+06:002005-09-23T03:39:12.806+06:00
Dateline Bunkum
Having read my four
Dateline Bunkum's
to date, you might be led to believe that this column is only about blatant errors in
Matichon. That is, however, incorrect. The Dateline
Bunkum dishonor may be bestowed on an article from any Thai
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1067789676091678052003-11-02T22:14:00.000+06:002005-03-08T21:34:11.696+06:00
Dem-agogues will be Dem-agogues
Did I
see this coming or what? [from the
BaPo]
Mr Jurin doubted the government's claim the
United Nations had requested military assistance in
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1067788866210405622003-11-02T22:01:00.000+06:002003-11-02T22:01:05.163+06:00
B is for
BEETHOVEN, BOLERO and BSO (all in one setting!)TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1067754274133226172003-11-02T12:24:00.000+06:002003-11-03T10:49:44.446+06:00
A typical Bunkum Post editorial
Title:
Iraq is in bad need of a lasting peace
Aren't we all? The question is how to achieve that.
Extract: [print edition only]
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1067008765014125262003-10-24T21:19:00.000+06:002003-10-24T22:23:23.380+06:00
Off to a foreign country
Bon weekend, everyone. See you next Friday. No boxing
matches while I'm away, okay?TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1067008090216065002003-10-24T21:08:00.000+06:002003-11-02T12:18:40.906+06:00
Yet another incidental, isolated case
A lot of
comments there two posts below. I have no idea how to
start responding (and I've tried) and so I won't. The blog,
though, must go on.
The Bunkum Post
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066817489750780022003-10-22T16:11:00.000+06:002003-10-23T01:51:48.676+06:00
Dateline Bunkum
Matichon "excerpts"
Nation TV's interview with President Bush:
[Q:]
ไปเมืองไทยจะเจอเอ็นจีโอและทางการไทยอาจจะจับกุมผู้ประท้วง
[A:] TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066760096968865822003-10-22T00:14:00.000+06:002003-10-22T04:05:57.096+06:00
Dear Reader
This blog has been enjoying an encouraging amount of regular
visitors recently. Thank you all very much.
It's a pity, however, that not many people... okay, only one
person (good Michael of St. Louise) takes advantage of the
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066756384295486162003-10-21T23:13:00.000+06:002003-10-22T03:47:15.706+06:00
Figuratively speaking
On the eve of APEC, the Bunkum Post, like
Thaksin, urged against staging protests during the summit
week, but not without
taking a swipe at the PM:
Mr Thaksin, probably unwittingly, TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066732318631101912003-10-21T16:31:00.000+06:002003-10-21T23:30:29.350+06:00
An apple a day keeps the extremists away
In the
post below, you read about Kobsak Chutikul, vice
chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, now meet
Kraisak Choonhavan, chairman of the
counterpart committee in the Senate,TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066664987748557452003-10-20T21:49:00.000+06:002003-10-21T14:48:51.463+06:00
Very funny
Kim Jong-il is a CIA agent, Bush wants to deploy
Vietcong in Iraq and Goh Chok Tong will be in Bush's 2004
cabinet lineup. No, I haven't gone bonkers. Those are
just highlights from an
attempt at humor by the vice TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066656642584970432003-10-20T19:30:00.000+06:002003-10-21T00:13:33.210+06:00
APEC Channel
Can't blog,
watching.
(The gala dinner's just finished and the Royal Barge
ceremony's coming up!)
Update The ceremony looked just
like in the
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066545697378025682003-10-19T12:41:00.000+06:002003-10-19T17:10:16.873+06:00
Seeing is believing
The "APEC+1-1"
post (three posts below) has been updated to include scanned
images of the faulty advertisement.
So now there's no excuse for you guys not to hunker down and
try to figure TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066491419184331142003-10-18T21:36:00.000+06:002003-10-19T12:42:35.266+06:00
B is for
BUSH (He'll arrive in Bangkok any minute now.)
Update Off to a
good start.
P.S. The post below has been updated. Do take a look.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066382286747466682003-10-17T15:18:00.000+06:002005-10-27T00:27:03.486+06:00
Dark day for the (Thai) Dems
The United Nations Security Council unanimously
adopted
Resolution 1511, which includes the following text:
The Security Council
. . .
13. Determines that the provision of security and
stability is essential to the successful completion of the
political process as outlined in paragraph 7 above and to
the ability of the United Nations to contribute effectively
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066320283038675732003-10-16T22:04:00.000+06:002005-10-27T00:14:34.316+06:00APEC+1-1If you've bought a copy of Time or Fortune in
Asia recently, you'll likely have seen the two-page "Welcome
APEC" ad featuring PM Thaksin and the Suphanahongsa Royal Barge with the
Grand Palace and fireworks in the background. So far, so kitsch good. But take a closer look at the members' flags proudly displayed at the bottom, doesn't one stand out? Blimey, isn't that the
Union Jack!? TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066234369046335112003-10-15T22:12:00.000+06:002003-10-16T19:40:18.050+06:00
That Asian summit type thing
The Thai staff who's gone to great lengths to prepare for
this super-duper once-in-a-life-time APEC happening (we
now have an
APEC
channel!) aren't going to like
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066206853538294552003-10-15T14:34:00.000+06:002003-10-15T22:20:17.753+06:00
Who has the wrong target?
Another letter unfit to print in the Bunkum Post:
Dear Editor
Brian Knight (“Postbag”
Oct 9) has it backwards. The Assembly of the “Poor” and its
allies are not venting out their TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066138342427167842003-10-14T19:32:00.000+06:002003-10-14T19:37:16.863+06:00
Ford vs Sharpless
Bill Ford, chairman and CEO of Ford Motor,
announcing a 500-million-dollar investment: [from BaPo]
"And I believe one of the reasons for our
success here can be attributed to the Thai TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066111222510452802003-10-14T12:00:00.000+06:002003-10-14T19:12:11.540+06:00
I was wrong
And delightfully so. Time didn't
snub my letter, they
published it (under the heading "Coping with grief). Yeh!
But then again, couldn't they have done a better job at
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1066111104841068612003-10-14T11:58:00.000+06:002003-10-14T11:58:24.203+06:00
Sunshine hawk
He marched with Martin Luther King in Washington, was
smitten by Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and picked up
Indonesian during his ambassadorial tenure to the world's
largest Muslim nation. He also:
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065948270339986052003-10-12T14:44:00.000+06:002003-10-12T15:10:00.113+06:00
Freed!
The (nice) Iraqi generals are finally being
released! Kudos to all the
imperialistic heartless witless warmongers who made this
happen and with whom I'm proud to be on the same side. [via
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065946815988209302003-10-12T14:20:00.000+06:002003-10-12T20:33:00.186+06:00
JI update
Or recap, since it contains a lot of recycled material.
Anyway,
this isn't bad to read and is written by the only
Bangkok Post reporter for whom I have some respect.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065889368410536922003-10-11T22:22:00.000+06:002003-10-11T22:22:48.226+06:00
B
is for
BREL (Feel like weasel music? He's the best. Hey, it's
the Dissident Frogman who got me all in the French mode. If
this helps at all, Brel is Belgian.)TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065887524158138052003-10-11T21:52:00.000+06:002003-10-12T14:06:24.193+06:00
Good European • Bon Européan
He's cool, witty, artistic, bilingual and,
to top it all off, FRENCH (imagine the odds!). And to top
to top it all off, he affords
B
a TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065852996289204402003-10-11T12:16:00.000+06:002003-10-11T19:36:07.246+06:00
Dateline Bunkum
In a rare turn, Matichon was
absolutely giddy about free trade yesterday. From the
front-page headline:
"แม้ว"ปลื้มไทยปท.แรกในโลก
เปิดค้าเสรี 2 ชาติยักษ์"จีน-อินเดีย"
"TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065804052635162332003-10-10T22:40:00.000+06:002003-10-10T23:59:25.460+06:00
Via Sully
To link to an article already mentioned by
Andrew Sullivan would be, to put it mildly, pointless
anywhere in the blogosphere. Except here. That's because
several
of my regular readers are rather, TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065766163487289522003-10-10T12:09:00.000+06:002003-10-11T00:00:12.756+06:00
Today ROC, tomorrow ROT
Let us celebrate:
中華民國雙十國慶
Republic of China's "Double Ten" National Day
Now I'm TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065692627808598032003-10-09T15:43:00.000+06:002003-11-14T19:56:17.780+06:00
Those heartless, witless, trigger-happy GIs...
Who are organizing a
toy
drive for Iraqi children and campaigning for the
release of Iraqi generals (the nice ones, that is).
Please support them.
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065688049986949522003-10-09T14:27:00.000+06:002003-11-11T23:28:23.203+06:00
Does he have a younger sister (-in-law)?
Deputy Commerce Minister Wattana Muangsuk (post below)
married into the
Chearavanont clan of Thailand's richest man
Dhanin Chearavanont (even
richer than Prime TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065540665624952812003-10-07T21:31:00.000+06:002003-10-08T09:16:49.090+06:00
More "nationalists" like this, please
Finally, an outspoken, unalloyed Thai free-trader. And guess
what, he's a member of Thaksin's "nationalist" cabinet.
Deputy Commerce Minister Wattana Muangsuk gave an interview
on Channel 11 about the government's plan to amend the TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065509875333469292003-10-07T12:57:00.000+06:002003-10-07T21:32:09.413+06:00
Big news
The Bangkok Post's "Postbag" publishes a letter whose
author is not only sane, but also has a sense humor. Savor
this extremely rare occurence (the
second letter from top).TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065458316772613902003-10-06T22:38:00.000+06:002003-10-07T01:44:50.040+06:00
Third World Press, Third World Prose
Some of you may wonder why I don't write more about the
Thai-language press (like the
Merde does the French-language one). Well,
here's why: [from Matichon]
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065375889794765722003-10-05T23:44:00.000+06:002003-10-06T17:30:01.183+06:00
Warning Spanning five posts, the
3,831-word super-post below contains very condescending
language. (Hey, he started first!)
Sharpless responds
Many thanks to Mr. Gordon Sharpless who wrote to respond to
thisTomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065374550005912912003-10-05T23:22:00.000+06:002003-10-06T00:13:32.166+06:00
[continuing with Mr. Sharpless's email]
As for your comments about cooperation as opposed to my us
vs. them approach, well, I couldn't agree with you more. But
the reality is that Thailand is very much an us vs. them
environment and it comes from TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065374507190770312003-10-05T23:21:00.000+06:002003-10-06T00:23:58.890+06:00
...and right now 200,000 Thais enjoy that American life. No
reason why a few Americans can't be treated reciprocally in
Thailand.
Funny you should be demanding reciprocity. Of course,
Americans are not TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065369056603187912003-10-05T21:50:00.001+06:002003-10-06T17:27:13.966+06:00
Thaksin not a nationalist? You are the first person I have
ever heard argue this point! While I'm sure there are a
handful of us [you?] out there I think you'd have a very difficult
time finding a foreigner that would support your premise.
But I always admire anyone TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065369007868043152003-10-05T21:50:00.000+06:002003-10-06T10:02:16.060+06:00
Going back back to your numbers, two of them stand out in
that they aren't ripped off from the 2003
Factbook: both countries' 1998 per capita GDP figures. Now it's good
to see you can be creative, too, Mr. Sharpless (really, it
does take considerable imagination to TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1065026682408480462003-10-01T22:44:00.000+06:002003-10-22T21:22:24.023+06:00
That's what blogs are for
Time won't publish my letter. Fortunately,
B will.
Dear Editor,
No sooner did the dust settle on Ground Zero that we learned
that many victims of 9/11 were non-Americans (latest figure:
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064946109111418872003-10-01T00:21:00.000+06:002003-10-01T22:56:08.370+06:00
Trying to balance budget?
What do Thai senators do when they're not busy trying to
obstruct help to Iraq,
block anti-terrorism laws and
compare the PM with Hitler?
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064945809785428822003-10-01T00:16:00.000+06:002003-10-01T11:45:29.393+06:00
Warriors of the world unite!
From a
must-read by David Brooks of the New York Times:
[via Sully]
The quintessential new warrior scans the Web for
confirmation of the president's villainy. TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064862091996510312003-09-30T01:01:00.000+06:002003-09-30T01:41:44.813+06:00
Now with COMMENTS
Just click the link below each post and let your voice be
heard. (Who will be the very first?)
Update We have a winner!TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064852817402451962003-09-29T22:26:00.000+06:002003-09-30T00:22:40.716+06:00
"Technical changes... to win more Chinese readers"
Not content with
renaming Tintin in Tibet "Tintin in Chinese Tibet",
the Chinese
deleted passages about Tiananmen and Harry Wu from
Hillary's Living TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064849982803989072003-09-29T21:39:00.000+06:002003-09-30T00:01:18.626+06:00
Best among worst
Many thanks to Khun Surin who wrote:
The government comes up with some good idea, vow to do it
but when it is not in the news anymore, things tend to slip
and go back to its old ways.
I TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064770210184840652003-09-28T23:30:00.000+06:002003-09-28T23:53:01.520+06:00
Anti-Thaksinism
So as not tarnish Thaksin's "nationalist" credentials, the
Bunkum Post graciously buries this story in page 3, below the
fold:
PM defends raising of investment ceiling
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064688223927241332003-09-28T00:43:00.000+06:002003-09-28T11:02:44.730+06:00
Finally, a worthwhile French import
Allow me a bit of bragging here.
I discovered and bought Revel's
L'Obssession anti-américaine
on my own during my latest visit to Paris, without anyone's
recommendations.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064653378929705332003-09-27T15:02:00.000+06:002003-09-27T22:04:49.770+06:00
B is for
BALLET (My first, medium expectation)
Update Loved it!
You may yet catch it
here.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064598844584868672003-09-26T23:54:00.001+06:002003-11-14T20:11:34.873+06:00
They'd only shoot themselves in the foot
Up until recently, the only gun debate I knew of was the one
in the US and the stance I'd come to take on that was: Not sure. (I
have good reasons for it, but that's for another
day.)
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064598862104972942003-09-26T23:54:00.000+06:002003-09-27T09:59:37.746+06:00
Recommended readings
About Edward Said, who's died recently. This
paper seriously makes me miss college. [via
Mike Silverman]
And if that's too dense (or looooong) for your taste, there's
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064507717065974432003-09-25T22:35:00.000+06:002003-09-25T23:23:52.360+06:00
Reap what you don't sow
I've never visited foxnews.com before, not thinking I'd like
it. But I was wrong; I do like
this: [via samizdata.net]
Bin Laden himself has repeatedly denied that he received any
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064475058071489252003-09-25T13:30:00.000+06:002003-09-25T15:30:54.936+06:00
The book that debunks The Book
The author who gave us Liar's Poker and The
New New Thing just came out with a new
book on... baseball! An excerpt from the TNR
review:
Lewis focuses on theTomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064423683428405142003-09-24T23:14:00.000+06:002003-09-25T13:47:19.140+06:00
The land of denial
Should I be ashamed that it takes Michael of St.
Louise to alert me to a
foiling of a terrorist plot right here in Bangkok? (More
details
here but a quick TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064416974237276242003-09-24T21:22:00.000+06:002003-09-27T02:43:21.620+06:00
Disenfranchised? Join the kingdom
My good friend Jay asked me to comment on Gordon Sharpless's
gripes about disenfranchisement of Thailand's
expats, which begin thus:
Many expats living in Thailand have felt aTomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064309626860384432003-09-23T15:33:00.000+06:002003-09-23T23:03:59.660+06:00Of war and wonk
What am I doing linking to Andrew Sullivan? He should be linking to me! But then again, I love this too much. Love.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1064294885562421262003-09-23T11:28:00.000+06:002003-09-23T23:11:03.106+06:00
Back from the break
Many thanks to Michael of St. Louis, who wrote:
... you are now on my "must read" list! Looking forward to
checking out your site frequently."
My apologies to him, then, for having gone TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063830627702146952003-09-18T02:30:00.000+06:002003-10-22T21:31:17.550+06:00
Bangkok, Bunkum, Bangkok... BUNKUM
I never thought I'd live to see this day; the Bangkok
Post
published my letter! (Ed.-- So now it's "Bangkok
Post", not "Bunkum Post", huh? Tom-- Yes, but chances are
it'llTomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063827945107728992003-09-18T01:45:00.000+06:002003-09-29T21:26:47.063+06:00
What? You mean it's not legal yet?
Khun Surin writes:
One last question, do you like the legal 2
and 3 numbers lotteries running by the government ? I think
they are going to have it sold in the police station in the
near future. Since we cannot fight them we legalize them. May
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063710180984165992003-09-16T17:03:00.000+06:002003-09-17T10:31:07.236+06:00
Not our martyr
Asia Times Online has more than a fair share of
US-bashers in its ranks, yet gems like this keep me coming
back:
Agence France Presse reported that Lee "took his life to
protest what he and TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063690903328106902003-09-16T11:41:00.000+06:002003-09-17T10:33:47.890+06:00
Frikkin' idiots
Those are the
words OxBlox's
David Adesnik. I'm not the only frustrated soul in the
universe after all.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063644896141400462003-09-15T22:54:00.000+06:002003-09-16T10:41:16.516+06:00
Anti-Americanism explained
It must be great to have Prof. Fouad Ajami's piercing
insights. Great, and gloomy as well: [from Foreign Policy]
Envy of U.S. power, and of the United States' universalism,
is the ruling passion of FrenchTomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063538343324827982003-09-14T17:19:00.000+06:002003-09-29T21:23:15.566+06:00
Dateline Bunkum
From
Matichon:
นายชัยอนันต์ สมุทวณิช กรรมการ ก.พ.ร.
กล่าวถึงข้อวิจารณ์ของนายธีรยุทธที่ว่าการใช้ระบบซีอีโอเป็นการเดินตามก้นตะวันตกว่า
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063385013695130332003-09-12T22:43:00.000+06:002003-09-12T22:45:22.273+06:00
Nothing to squander
You know the axiom: The Bush administration blundered away
the international outpouring of goodwill after 9/11. Oh
well, with goodwill like
this, who
needs anti-Americanism? [via Sully]
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063296756938135762003-09-11T22:12:00.000+06:002003-09-11T22:12:37.016+06:00A moment of silence
. . .TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063218215401632592003-09-10T23:23:00.000+06:002003-09-12T20:34:20.926+06:00
Finally, Thailand debates capital punishment
But not the way you think. While the death penalty has been
abolished in
74 countries (including Cambodia, Colombia and Côte
d'Ivoire) and is a controversial issue in many that stillTomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063130275940915142003-09-09T23:57:00.000+06:002003-09-12T16:44:04.273+06:00
Mike vs Sup
Just saw the brilliant Michael Moore on the BBC's "Hard
Talk". (Notice "brilliant", which means I'm talking about
the
previous Director-General of the WTO, not the
stupid TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1063013014121148232003-09-08T15:23:00.000+06:002003-09-08T16:06:05.800+06:00
Anti-idiotarian frontrunner?
With a Democrat like
Lieberman who
needs a Republican: [from Slate]
Lieberman's attack on Dean elicits excited "ooohs" from the
reporters watching the debate on television in the hall's
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1062215638559222272003-08-30T09:53:00.000+06:002003-08-30T21:19:31.250+06:00
Paper tiger or paper elites
Lawrence Kaplan
debunks a long-standing myth:
In Lebanon, for example, public support for the U.S.
intervention increased after the 1983 bombing of the U.S.
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1062172158146141602003-08-29T21:49:00.000+06:002003-08-29T22:00:35.806+06:00Two score years ago...
Dr. King shared his dream.
While that needs no further elaboration, I'll add this anyway: This is one speech that every American English professor in China teaches to his students.
That is pride, and rightly so.
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1062063642128514052003-08-28T15:40:00.000+06:002003-09-08T16:05:39.233+06:00
Unmarred
So what if it
happens every fifteen or even two years... [from WaPo]
"Every 15 years Mars looks approximately this bright," said
Steven Dick, an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory.
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1062000259047991722003-08-27T22:04:00.000+06:002003-08-27T22:04:19.050+06:00
Charmant
Remember
Windows on the World? Merde has
more.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1061995091024257412003-08-27T20:38:00.000+06:002003-08-27T20:38:10.990+06:00
Nostalgic?
The Bangkok Post
reports the imminent annual military reshuffle:
Politics dictated key posts, says Surayud
Good Grief! The gall of those pols! Don't they know that the
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1061958671453491642003-08-27T10:31:00.000+06:002003-08-27T10:42:19.580+06:00Human shields wanted
To protect Iraq's infrastructure, civilians and, of course, children.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1061895557669646362003-08-26T16:59:00.000+06:002003-08-27T20:36:35.133+06:00
Filling the void
Many thanks to Khun Alan Dawson who wrote (a while ago,
actually) to comment on this
post. An
excerpt:
One of the top complaints of her country that my (Thai) wife
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1061889623534283462003-08-26T15:20:00.000+06:002003-08-27T10:26:54.983+06:00
Tough request
I wouldn't consider this worthy of a
post were it not for a request by a respected acquaintance.
Of all that sentimental, convoluted whining, bitching and
preaching, only one sentence caught my eye.
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1061830554624059092003-08-25T22:55:00.000+06:002003-09-10T11:24:44.006+06:00
Desperately seeking voters
Q:
What's a
demagogue?
This year's estimated GDP growth of 6% will
make only the rich richer, while the majority of
60-million-plus Thais will get only 780 baht TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1061829775835337482003-08-25T22:42:00.000+06:002003-08-26T01:18:08.473+06:00
No "stick of joy"
The Raja Bundits ("Royal Pundits")
debunk some of the most
prevalent jokes about their word coinage.
"ศัพท์ที่เข้ามาพร้อมกับเทคโนโลยีใหม่ๆ
เช่น คอมพิวเตอร์ ซอฟต์แวร์ ฮาร์ดแวร์
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1061829224250789712003-08-25T22:33:00.000+06:002003-08-26T13:55:46.320+06:00
Worthy of snopes.com II
Ask any foreign correspondent about Thai politics and here's
what you get: Thaksin Shinawatra, the current PM, is a
nationalist, populist, anti-West dictator; By
contrast, Chuan Leekpai, the previous PM, is a "reformist"
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1061828808953482432003-08-25T22:26:00.000+06:002003-08-26T01:33:29.926+06:00
Worthy of snopes.com
It's well known in certain circles (like the Foreign
Correspondents Club of Thailand) that Thaksin Shinawatra, the current
PM, is an appeaser who coddles up to the Burmese junta to
protect his private business interests whereas TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060920749517660972003-08-15T10:12:00.001+06:002003-09-07T22:17:12.960+06:00
B is for
BUNDIT (Thank you for bringing the best out of the BSO)TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060920774558133522003-08-15T10:12:00.000+06:002003-09-07T22:16:24.783+06:00
B is for
BUSTED (Will this shame those fools who were
crying murder about the terrorism law? Doubt it.)TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060713602881651062003-08-13T00:40:00.000+06:002003-08-13T01:05:34.683+06:00
With us or with the usual suspects
True to its ideals, the Bangkok Post has chosen...
Outcry over laws by decree
The government has been labelled an
opportunist and dictator for its swift TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060539285086657852003-08-11T00:14:00.000+06:002003-08-11T11:36:40.290+06:00
Truce Broken
I'm SEETHING with rage. Today the Bangkok Post
published a horrid, brazen, mendacious hatchet work against
Tony Blair's government from the World Socialist Web Site
and had the temerity to label it "Comment/Press Freedom".
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060438769863507852003-08-09T20:19:00.000+06:002003-08-09T22:18:52.676+06:00Truce
I'm getting busy, so blogging will be minimal, if at all, for a couple of weeks. This may be a good time for you to explore my (very small) archives, if you haven't already done so. If you have, however, then you may want to pay a visit to the recommended blogs listed in the green box. You'll see what this blog aspires to be when it grows up.TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060278334955194752003-08-07T23:45:00.000+06:002003-08-08T10:13:07.640+06:00Why not thank the IMF
Asks Kanjana Spindler of the Bangkok Post. A
valid point, if only she would stick to it:
Just in case anybody has forgotten, the
extent of the damage to the Thaitanic remains almost
incalculable. In 1998 one of Thailand's TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060192378449907212003-08-06T23:52:00.000+06:002003-08-28T17:13:34.313+06:00
B is for... BECKHAM (And yes, he did bend it.)TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060190999910198922003-08-06T23:29:00.000+06:002003-08-07T08:39:23.236+06:00
The bombs that ended all bombs
This excellent
article should once and for all silence those historically
illiterate loudmouths who're always nagging the US about the
atomic bombs. Should, but that won't be the case.
Hiroshima TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060080385508674542003-08-05T16:46:00.000+06:002003-08-05T16:47:39.743+06:00Getting closer
Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Aden, New York, Washington, Bali, Kikambala, Riyadh and now Jakarta. With us or with the terrorists, you may not have so much time to decide.
P.S. "Let's use the shari'a to deal with these scums," says Dad. [His view does not necessarily reflect that of B.]TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060070916270900982003-08-05T14:08:00.000+06:002003-08-05T16:50:39.786+06:00
Très classe
If any further proof is needed of the French's
impeccable taste, Frédéric Beigbeder provides it. The
intellectuel
makes a porn out of 9/11 in his new book. [via Merde]
Meanwhile, actress Marie TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060070869030235162003-08-05T14:07:00.000+06:002003-08-06T23:38:36.876+06:00
Noble communist
Or socialist. Anyway, that's not an oxymoron. From the
hard left, Norman Geras
supports the war, and laments his astray former
comrades. [via Instapundit] (There's also his
blog,
if you want TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1060011202609955122003-08-04T21:33:00.000+06:002003-08-05T02:21:14.743+06:00
BAPO responds
Many thanks to Khun Michael of the Bangkok Post, who
wrote two emails.
In the first, he rebutted this
post of mine:
You're right...no balance. But
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1059981939928570192003-08-04T13:25:00.000+06:002003-08-26T17:06:16.890+06:00
In remembrance
Monday. One week since July 27, the 50th
anniversary of the end of the Korean war. One whole week I
waited in vain for the Thai media to so much as mention our
veterans who fifty years ago fought successfully to protect
freedom.
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1059923132274829292003-08-03T21:05:00.000+06:002003-08-04T17:24:56.623+06:00
Future of Iraq
The Washington Post
reports from Baghdad University:
The two friends, stopping to chat with a journalist,
unhesitatingly blurted out their strongly felt views. Samar,
18, TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1059910238902769982003-08-03T17:30:00.000+06:002003-08-04T13:11:23.043+06:00
Good news and bad news
An important
message from the Premier:
However, [Thaksin] rejected
calls to repeal the [IMF-recommended] laws, which opponents
claimed threatened the country's sovereignty.
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1059903998809969472003-08-03T15:46:00.000+06:002003-08-03T16:14:00.113+06:00
Don't break your brain
A typical Bangkok Post
reporting:
Asylum-seekers want to go to S. Korea, motives unclear
Now that's a hard one. What are the "motives" behind
TomVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5619978.post-1059893396624158902003-08-03T12:49:00.000+06:002003-08-28T17:11:37.406+06:00
B is for...
BANGKOK 8 (Stuff made for the movie. Let's hope they
don't ban this one.)TomVnoreply@blogger.com