GETTING AROUND BANGKOK IS EASY
The first row of photos was taken at the Phrom Phrong BTS Station. BTS, or SkyTrain as it is affectionately known, glides above the busy streets of Bangkok, allowing public transit users to ignore the city’s world-class traffic. The second row was taken at the Sukhumvit MRT (subway) station, which goes many places the BTS […]
BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH KEYBANGERS BANGKOK
Keybangers Bangkok, March 27, 2022. Photo by Stephen Shaiken It’s been three years since I last met face-to face with Keybangers Bangkok, the writing group that has always nurtured and assisted me in countless ways. Some faces are familiar, others are new. Writers come from just about every corner of the globe: Romania, England , […]
BACK IN THAILAND AFTER THREE YEARS
Bingo Beach, Chonburi Province, Thailand, home of internationally acclaimed magician know as Dr. Penguin. Photo by Stephen Shaiken If any readers ever take the time to check out my biographic information on Amazon, Goodreads, this blog, or any of my novels, they’d see I “split my time between Tampa, Florida and Bangkok, Thailand.” That was […]
ONLY TRAITOROUS AMERICANS SUPPORT PUTIN’S INVASION
Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine Flag of independent Ukraine I can understand Americans don’t want war with Russia and they don’t want American troops in combat. I certainly feel that way, and there are other paths open to combat Putin. But what I cannot understand are those Americans who cheer on Putin and think we should […]
SOUND ADVICE FROM SYLVIA PLATH
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THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, BUT WEED ALSO HELPS
Israel’s experiment in socialism has been in deep trouble as the country moved from a developing agricultural society into a powerful force in the digital revolution, energy, intelligence gathering and security. Fortunately, medical marijuana saved the day for them and for the many patients achieving positive results. This also lays to rest the notion that […]
WHAT’S NEXT, THE YELLOW STAR? (Dutch Universities Goes Full Nazi)
This is in a country where less than eighty years ago, Jews were identified, forced to wear yellow stars, and thus were easy to round up and deport to concentration camps. Out of 100,000 Dutch Jews, less than 25,000 survived, the highest percentage and total number of Holocaust murder victims in Occupied Western Europe. What […]
NO MORE PROSELYTIZING IN SCHOOLS!
The other day I posted about a teacher in Tennesee who was proselytizing in a class on the Christian Bible, going so far as to tell students to “torture” Jewish people by writing and saying the name of G-d outside of prayer, because this is considered a horrific sign of disrespect to religious Jews. Below […]
MAKING JEWISH STUDENTS UNCOMFORTABLE IS OKAY IN TENNESSEE
Yahoo News ran an article about a school board in Tennessee that offers a course teaching “the Bible,” which is of course a Christian version favored by fundamentalists and Evangelicals. If anyone doubts the real intent is to force this religious dogma down everyone’s throats, read what the teacher recommends students do when they encounter […]
A MORNING E BIKE RIDE, AND A NEW NJA CLUB NOVEL TO BE RELEASED
Taking a morning e bike ride in Old Seminole Heights, Tampa, FL, thinking about the release of the third novel in the NJA Club series, titled Bangkok Blues. It will be released in less than two weeks. The first two novels, Bangkok Shadows and Bangkok Whispers, continue gaining readers, and Bangkok Blues will please old and new readers […]