RWI (Reporters Without Irony)

Good to have The New York Times when you need to know that toilet paper should not be made from paper. Seems like the Times folks used a lot of paper to tell readers that toilet paper takes a lot of, well, paper, and that means trees. Unlike other products that don’t use trees [...]

World ends, rich suffer most

So the Australians, it seems are so impoverished, so deeply in economic crisis, so utterly doomed, that they have to sell off their basic life necessities just to assure survival for one more miserable day. From Sydney, a heart-rending tragedy unfolds:
Luxury car dealer Normal Elkordi has never seen it this bad — financial high-flyers feeling [...]

Grab your seats

If you were there for the biggest Beatles concert on August 15, 1965, you can buy an actual  pair of seats from Shea Stadium.
They’ve built a new stadium in New York, and the city is tearing down the baseball stadium where the Fab Four played. You can purchase two connected seats for only $869 [...]

Samak and Burma, good buddies?

The Censorship Bureau of Burma (a government group, if that’s not already clear) has banned all coverage of demonstrations taking place in Thailand.
The website Irrawaddy.org (registration recently required) reports that the delayed CNN broadcasts allowed on Burma’s tiny 19-channel Family Entertainment pay-TV system, are shown only after they are stripped of all news about Thailand, [...]

More ‘Wanted’ posters

The Thaksin posters have got such wide distribution in both their real and their fake form.
So it’s only fitting the wanted posters for the disloyal oppostion get aired as well. Here are 7 of the 9 wanted posters for the leaders of the Yellow-Crested Loons. Senior leaders Sondhi Lim and the professed Buddhist for violence [...]

Only in America…

… do politicians mess with good songs.
Yes even here in Bangkok the chosen one was chosen and walked on water live.
The second Obama stopped talking, the atmosphere-monkeys cranked up the country hit Only in America by Brooks and Dunn. I guess because, you know, Chicago politicians are real country fans. Full lyrics here:
But this song [...]

When journalists can’t spell

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand last Friday (Aug 18) presented a new documentary on the greatest cliche in Southeast Asian history: the “secret war” in Laos.

In The Most Secret Place On Earth, key players of the Secret War – former CIA agents, American pilots, Laotian fighters and war reporters – take us on a [...]

A new way to post to blogs

This post is actually a test of a new (to me, that is) online service called WriteToMyBlog.com. It claims to be able to post to two or more blogs simultaneously, as well as do the regular things you have to to do post blogs.Two paragraphs into the test and I am not impressed. You have [...]

Good on you, mates

Given a choice of three “American allies,” readers of the popular libertarian blog Instapundit.com named Australia as their best ally. In fact, they voted for Australia by about a 2-to-1 margin over both the other choices, Britain and Israel.

This is an excellent achievement by an excellent and loyal nation. Australia is indeed a top [...]

How to kill a newspaper

The Philadelphia Inquirer picked up the hara-kiri knife last week, one of the sadder events in a whole series that is killing newspapers around the world.
In a memo to all staff, managing editor Mike Leary vows there will be none of that new-fangled, online Internet stuff. Not in his newspaper.

Beginning today, we are adopting an [...]