I was taking my morning walk in the gardens behind Wat Kandal in Battambang, when an Indian-looking guy came up to me saying “Shiva, Shiva”, and pointing to a remote corner of the gardens. There I found a new statue of Shiva, complete with his identifying symbols of the trident, the third eye, and especially […]
Many people view Trump as God in the same way that most religious people view their gods. However, my explanation of the common perception of God is not the normal one, so let me start with that. For most people, shit happens. That is the default. Things normally go wrong. But once in a while, […]
Everyone is talking about the future of AI these days. Most of the discussions I read or hear center around the loss of millions of jobs, as AI can do tasks that most human employees now perform. However, there are dozens of other ramifications, each more frightening than the last. Today I saw an interview […]
The world is teetering on the brink of a financial crisis. Mainstream media are not covering this all-important story, probably because the situation is complicated and would not be understood by most viewers. When the US debt reaches 40 trillion, this is a number that almost no one comprehends. It is 40,000,000,000,000. Hard to get […]
Trump is telling the press that the CIA decided to sneak him off AF1, and he just did what they told him to do. This is apparently another total Trump lie. The CIA didn’t take the Israeli report of a threat very seriously. Rubio was aware and decided that AF1 was not in great danger, […]
Like most of the official stories coming out of the Iran war (i.e. ‘excursion’), the stories of the catering-truck episode raise a whole lot of questions. First, Trump was transferred from Qatar1 to the old AF1. The initial explanation, and the first lie about this was that Trump wanted to show Qatar1 to people in […]
All through the COVID pandemic, I regarded Dr. Fauci as the voice of reason who was saving millions of lives. Nowadays, he is hated and receives death threats. What happened? The case against Fauci usually boils down to an accusation that Fauci denied or covered up a theory that the COVID-19 virus was invented in […]
The nation is outraged to learn that, after a meeting with Trump officials and a donation of a million dollars, the FDA reversed its positive test result for cyclospora and apologized to Taylor Farms. Given the Trump administration’s track record, most people are apt to jump to the conclusion that Taylor Farms bribed Trump a […]
The U.S. death toll from the Iran war has held at 13 for the past several weeks. During this period, we have witnessed dramatic videos of Iranian strikes on dozens of American bases, with scenes of utter destruction in flames and smoke. Surely there have been plenty of casualties, but Trump is not reporting them. […]
Almost every visitor to Cambodia is struck by how nice the Cambodians are. I know that my critics will say, “People everywhere are the same; there are good and bad people in every country.” However, anyone who has travelled abroad will aver that people in different cultures and countries are very, very different. So why […]