November 2010
2 posts
Last Entry
It’s been one month since I left Thailand, and with so much going on in the world today, it’s been hard to find the time to place myself in a moment—the right moment—to write my last entry.
On October 4th, I moved home to Michigan and after a few days I made my move back to Chicago. Today I’m living in Logan Square, a predominately latin neighborhood, with two great...
“ขอขอบคุณประเทศไทย ฉันจะไม่ลืมคุณ”
October 2010
10 posts
September 2010
29 posts
Game time
Up all night cleaning, grading, and packing—Angkor Wat tomorrow, America next Monday.
WatchSept. 24: Watch Stephen Colbert deliver a prepared statement on immigration before the House Judiciary Subcommittee. via www.msnbc.msn.com
Near the end of the hearing, Mr. Colbert turned sincere, giving a serious answer when asked a serious question by Representative Judy Chu, Democrat of California, about why he had chosen to donate his time to the plight of migrant farm workers out of all...
Downhill With the G.O.P. By PAUL KRUGMAN →
These days one of America’s two great political parties routinely makes nonsensical promises. Banana republic, here we come. via www.nytimes.com
Less than two weeks...
Grading, Koh Samet, and Angkor Wat, are all that separate me from my move back to the states (Huntington Woods Oct. 4th/Chicago Oct. 7th). It’s been a l-o-n-g year—one full of initiative, absorption, maturity, and reflection. I love Thailand, but I am so excited to come home :)
Who makes more money...
Who makes more money, the tanning industry of America, the whitening industry of India, or the whitening industry of Thailand? Why do we do this?
“And so from a national security interest, we want to be clear about who the...”
– President Obama
MOVE THE MOSQUE! (AND OTHER ANNIVERSARY NOTES)... →
Feisal Abdul Rauf, back from his State Department-sponsored trip overseas in time for the 9/11 anniversary, said his piece this week on the Op-Ed page of the Times. If you haven’t yet read his Op-Ed, please hasten to do so…. via www.newyorker.com
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with...”
– President Clinton
Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on... →
As a potty-mouthed graffiti writer from the South Side of Chicago, William Upski Wimsatt electrified the literary and hip-hop world with two of the most successful underground classic books in a generation, Bomb the Suburbs (1994) and No More Prisons (1999), which, combined, sold more than ninety thousand copies.
In Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs, Wimsatt weaves a first-person tour of...
Considering Daley’s Exit, With Hope and With Fear... →
Chicago has felt conflicting emotions since Mayor Richard M. Daley said he’d leave the office he has had since 1989. via www.nytimes.com
Last month in Thailand.
Time flies…
Off Twitter, on Ping.
Social networking, a blessing and a burden.
Bangkok Post : Boy, 9, shot dead while on way to... →
A 9-year-old boy has been shot to death on a public bus and a 12-year-old girl wounded in separate brawls involving rival technical college students. via www.bangkokpost.com
The Most Important Newspaper Column Today -... →
The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf, arguably the most important financial columnist in the world, pens a blistering appraisal of President Obama’s response to the economic decline, and the Republican Party’s counterfactual contention that the stimulus didn’t work and tax cuts don’t increase the defici… via swampland.blogs.time.com
August 2010
13 posts
“Powerlessness corrupts too. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.”
– Bernard Dory
I yell at Meet the Press...
I yell at Meet the Press like your sister/mother/brother yells at Jeopardy.
THE “GROUND ZERO MOSQUE” AND THE LITTLE LEAGUERS... →
Nice post from Conor Friedersdorf, at the Daily Dish, on conservative outrage at the idea that opposition to an Islamic community center downtown, in a community that includes Muslims, might be bigoted: It’s 5 am as I write this,… via www.newyorker.com
ZERO GROUNDS by Hendrik Hertzberg →
Comment about the debate over the “Ground Zero mosque… via www.newyorker.com
Miss you, Tom.
Miss you, Tom. Wish you were here.
