Intelligence

Journalists, politicians, pundits, and people in general are scratching their heads trying to figure Trump out. Is he the “Stable Genius” he claims to be. Does he play three-dimensional chess and we simply cannot figure it out? Does he have a secret plan? Is there a...

History Repeating Itself

In September 1938, the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, met Adolf Hitler in Munich for a Summit. On August 15, 2025, the American President Donald Trump, will meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska for a Summit. Hitler wants to annex a significant part of...

Luk Thung

Luk Thung is a style of country music popular in Thailand’s impoverished North-East: Isan. Its’ roots go actually back to Thai music that evolved in the thirties in central Thailand. Wikipedia has a good article on this. Today it is the music of the Isan people,...

Tripple “B”

For MAGA Republicans (are their any other Republicans left?) BBB stand for Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, the legislative atrocity they so lamely approved. More likely it is the grade rating agencies will assign to US Government debt, once the bill is implemented…...

Why a Blog

And now, the end is near  And so I face the final curtain  My friend, I’ll make it clear  I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain I’ve lived a life that’s fullI traveled each and every highwayAnd more, much more than this, I did it my...