MUSHROOM
Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint, all related …
BROWN SHIRTS
The events in Minneapolis last week, and a book I am presently reading by Heather Cox-Richardson called “Democracy Awakening”, prompted me to write this blog, …
DISBAND
In this blog, I will float the idea that the United States should totally disband both major political parties, Democratic and Republican. The only …
HELLO
It’s been 200 years since the word “hello” was first used in print, though its beginnings date back to the 15th Century. This article investigates …
THE COMING TRUMP CRACKUP
“The Coming Trump Crackup” is an interesting and poignant article by David Brooks that I thought was worth publishing as a blog in its entirety, …
MONSTERS IN THE CITY
Monsters in the city sounds like the title of a horror movie, but it is all-to-real occurrence in Thailand. Once driven to the city’s edges, …
AN UNFORTUNATE TRUTH
It is, perhaps, an unfortunate truth that the image of a country is often synonymous with the image of its ruler, at least in the …
IMPEACHING
There have been rumblings in the Democratic Party recently about impeaching Donald Trump, but no action so far, although something is due to happen next …
BREXIT
I am glad to see that the British public are finally waking up to the stupidity that was, and still is, Brexit. It was born …
DAVID BROOKS
This article, written by David Brooks about a new book by George Packer of The Atlantic, struck me as a pretty good analysis of where …