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Lonely? Depressed? Feeling the weight of the World on your shoul¬ders? Feel like nobody loves or appreciates you? Oh, what’s that, you do??

Cunning Linguistics in Thai

I’m tired of having people glance over at me and say “blah blah blah farang blah blah blah.”

Editorial: March 2006

After I decided to write this month’s editorial on my abhorrence of the death penalty, I did some research and found ample evidence and information to fill this page with logic, reason and statistics to sway any rational and compassionate human being into taking a stand against this barbaric practice. But please allow me to dispense with such formality — you can Google ‘death penalty’ and find over 25 million pages dedicated to the argument; many more erudite than any I could write.

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