Based on a poster's suggestion here, I downloaded google chrome which has the option to translate Thai websites (or any languages) on the fly to English. Of course the actual translations are comical but it is definitely interesting anyway. I started with the thairath newspaper website. Can people recommend some other good Thai websites worth reading (more or less with the bad translations?

BTW, if you are installing Chrome in Thailand, you may have issues with it wanting to be in the Thai language. I installed the English version and my Win 7 system is set to English locality, however it still installed all in Thai.

Following the directions in this post solved the problem for me!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?s=...t&p=3552526

From there install the google translator add on, and you're good to go on Thai websites and read English gibberish. Hurrah!