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My wife Tang is in hot dog heaven. Think all Thais are ladling creamy curries over rice three times a day? Think again. You wouldn’t b...

“Thai society is pretentious,” or so says my wife, a quote I remind her of periodically. All the little one-on-one-up-man-ships become rig...

I’ve done my own taxes all my life, Schedule C and SE, 1099’s and 1040 long forms, estimated tax and exempt foreign income ad infintum ad na...

All good things have to come to an end some time, don’t they? After almost exactly ten years in Thailand , maybe it’s time for me to move ...

Just when you think the dollar couldn’t suck any more or any worse than it already does, then it starts going down again, kind of like Londo...

It’s probably a few days too early to remember Kurt Cobain on the fourteenth anniversary of his death April 5, but it’s never too early or t...

So now there’s a TV show called, “Are you smarter than a fifth-grader?” I’m glad people find our current ‘dumbing-down’ humorous. More a...

My father-in-law is dying. I tell him he’s not, but he is. They’re killing him, not some vast faceless conspiratorial capital ‘T’ “They”...

Airports in America these days are starting to look like something out of The Matrix or Naked Lunch or something, fleshy mugwumps attach...