By Green Fingered Skinner on 2010 03 09
You should be “As Mad As Hell.” America belongs to the people. Stop the wars. Stop the corruption. Fire them all! Start over. We need a new Continential Congress to update, correct, and save America from public apathy and corporate special interest.
From the entry 'As Mad As Hell'.By Blur on 2010 03 04
Not that poor. That Palestinian boy with no candy has something that those fancy kids don’t have anyway. 
By julianyway on 2010 03 04
That poor little kid.
From the entry 'The Boy With No Candy - a children's story'.By julianyway on 2010 03 04
The people who are supposed to do the catching and punishing don’t get paid well enough, by the government, for that particular job, to make a living, so they take bribes. The government says it can’t afford to pay the people who are supposed to do the catching and punishing well enough. After all, the vast majority of people are too poor for it to be worthwhile to tax them.
I wouldn’t say that Cambodians do what they’re told ... unless they absolutely have to, because someone might kill them or drag them off to jail because they don’t have the money to pay a bribe.
As for internet, well, it takes a long time to load a page sometimes. Like, 90 minutes??? I am just using the guesthouse connection where I used to live… hump the laptop down here from my apartment.
Thanks! I love this place!
From the entry 'Modern Slavery'.By StarLizard on 2010 03 03
Yeah I want cheesy poofs.
From the entry 'The Boy With No Candy - a children's story'.By Dave Scotese on 2010 03 03
You seem to have gotten an Internet connection or something. Or did you pass away and now you’re just a ghost in the machine? Either way “Welcome back!” We missed you.
Would you say that most Cambodians do what they’re told so that they don’t get punished (by people who have to spend effort punishing them), or do they not bother with that because they need to do other stuff to survive?
From the entry 'Modern Slavery'.By Blur on 2010 03 03
Hi Julie,
I just pictured the kid who wants to keep all of his candy for himself in millions of pixels. Even saw him choke on it!:lol:
By julianyway on 2010 03 03
Actually this is really good. Or at least it resonates with me. I’m still in Cambodia and there is an incredible amount of corruption here at most official levels. I think about corruption every day because (oddly enough)the local (English speaking)newspapers are full of evidence of it. (Meanwhile there’s nothing stopping me from teaching English and sociology here...) The thing is that most of the people are really, really nice.
The ordinary Cambodian doesn’t really think about freedom. Corruption is a new concept. Getting by is where it’s at. Even the luxury of having the concept and being able to decide whether to succumb to it or fight it is something to be appreciated, I think.
From the entry 'Modern Slavery'.By julianyway on 2010 03 03
A good critical analysis is worth a thousand pixels. 
By StarLizard on 2010 03 02
Oki. Here`s th answer. I ant candy. I get or mae candy. Hey, yu, keep yer stinkin`filthy hands off my candy. You ain`t giving it to nobody else. If I want to give MY candy away I will. And no, you can`t shame me into giving the fat kid more of MY candy because he needs it because he ate too much candy and his body physiclly needs it and is too heavy now to move and o is too lazy to get it.
Mine.
From the entry 'The Boy With No Candy - a children's story'.