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People can be terrible, ugly animals.

Going to kill this woman for breaking your stupid, arbitrary rule. That's civilization right there.

I like the part where the first guy keeps repeating the argument;

Nobody could possibly know whether Lincoln was gay therefore Lincoln definitely wasn't gay.

Then the other guy calmly and logically rebukes him, and then the first guy just says it again for 3 pages while other people chime in periodically with the same basic argument.

The fact that he was married with children is pretty good evidence he wasn't gay. The fact that he shared a bed with his friend with whom he was affectionate in a manner that we, today, would think of as more than friendly is fair evidence that maybe he was.

I kinda hope he was. Would make the history that much more more interesting.

When was this photo taken?

I see the police have taken over the scene and already had time to mark off the bike on the street, yet this person was laying in the street bleeding with no apparent assistance.

I saw a neighbor get taken out when a gas compressor exploded in his face, within the first month of moving BKK. Nobody, not even his friends, had any sense of urgency about it. I almost felt embarrassed that I had been running around giving compression instructions to someone on the scene and orchestrating a pickup truck ride to the hospital and generally acting like the closest thing to a paramedic there. Seriously. Embarrassed, like I had acted too frantically. The guy died right there in front of my office door. We all just went back to work after that.

Early Lesson: Don't come to Thailand unless you're somewhat comfortable with the idea that you might bleed out on the street in a tropical land.

Mai Penlai, dude.

I've gotten in the habit of just getting in and sitting down before I state my destination. That works sometimes. Yesterday, for the first time, I found a cab that had the doors locked. The driver simply reached back to roll down the window before waving me off and driving away.

It's criminal.

They benefit from being licensed, but refuse their responsibilities for fair service.

Just another layer of corruption in the system.

Being an ignorant must be a scary way to live.

This happened to a good friend of mine last year. No bueno.

I've been to his show in the States. You get a contact high, or you leave. Those are your options.

Technically, a shootout is between two or more people firing at one another.

That subtle distinction was beyond the high quality writing of the Coconuts News...

Oh, I wasn't criticizing. I was just pointing it out.

Far be it from me to criticize the subtle wrinkles in an English-language story written by a Thai journalist when I don't even speak their language properly.

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Qualifications of an applicant:

Maybe it's the media I take in, or my cracker face, but Pattaya still comes across as a more dangerous place for me to walk around at night.

Then again, I've never had a Thai person so much as look at me crossly. All of this stuff gets filtered through local media before it reaches my ears. Interesting.

Coulda been worse. He... uh.. no. No it probably couldn't be worse.

Released from a nightmare dungeon and sent to state prison.

Well played, China.

I'll be applying for a credit card with my bank, Kasikorn, soon.

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with credit cards through K-bank.

Specifically if you can recommend which card to go with.

Travel insurance and airline miles would be great perks, but I can't really see any clear difference between the cards on those items.

Thanks very much

Police are attempting to deny people their right to demonstrate disapproval of their "elected" government.

Glad to see they can appreciate irony.

You've got a long, long way to go, Thailand.

Is it really so common to buy your way out of a situation like that or is this just expat hyperbole?

A friend in the States hit me up with the same idea, actually. Wanted to know if those tests could be sourced in Thailand.

I wonder what the charge is.

One would think that information would be the entire point of writing the article. =\

My cynicism will not allow me to believe there is a legitimate reason for anyone, anywhere, to have that much cash on them.

Hope I'm wrong and they just had good Karma working for them.

Good article. To me it seemed to have a few flawed readings on the US system. But it's still nice to read something like this inside Thailand.

I would say this whole "enemies within" idea has to go. If everyone always agreed we wouldn't need an election, now would we?

You can have political rivals and you can enemies of Democracy- but political foe and enemy of the state are two very different things.

The US is a Representative Democracy, not a Republic.

The only kink in that definition is the Electoral College- which is a weird and flawed invention- but still doesn't take us out of By The People territory.