Harrison George
7 Sep 2022
Just down the hallway from the sauna and karaoke room, the Senate complex has a bulletin board where notices and advertisements are posted for the benefit of Senators. Some recently removed announcements seem to have been recovered from the parliamentary trash cans and are being used as paper bags for kluai thot.
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16 Aug 2022
Fresh from their success in eviscerating the law on cannabis, a coalition of anti-enjoyment organizations has engaged in a new battle and set its sights on even bigger target.
The Stop Cannabis Addiction Movement (SCAM) aggressively lobbied parliamentarians to pass amendments to the recent cannabis law to severely restrict the production, sale and consumption of marijuana.
21 Jun 2022
Experts are warning that Thailand risks a serious outbreak of a highly contagious disease that could lead to widespread ignorance and mass hysteria. High-ranking officials and politicians appear to be among the most highly vulnerable groups.
20 Apr 2022
HG's take on an ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and how the language can be miscommunicated so well.
22 Mar 2022
HG's take on neutrality, Thainess, and war in Ukraine.
26 Jan 2022
An enduring conversation between HG and an amnesty-get-out someone.
20 Jan 2022
After years of fighting off disaster, the economy of the nation was on its knees. The government had been forced to spend well beyond its means to wage the war. At the same time, economic activity had been devastated, seriously reducing government revenue. The country was on the edge of a financial abyss...
27 Aug 2021
HG's story over a scenario when an excessive use of plastic (bags?) becomes the National Police's agenda.
3 Aug 2021
Harrison George presents you a conversation of a journalist and policemen, regarding news reporting.
27 May 2021
If I might call this meeting to order, please. Thank you, thank you.
Pardon? Yes, you may continue replicating during this meeting, but quietly, please. No cheering unless you turn into a particularly virulent mutation, OK?
So I declare this meeting of Covid-19 International, Thailand Chapter, now open.
11 May 2021
Is there anything today which is important for general life and well-being and scarce and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future? If you can’t answer that question, you obviously don’t live anywhere close to what the newspapers coyly call ‘entertainment venues’ in the Thong Lo area.
3 Mar 2021
So before we have to appear at this UPR thing at the UN, …
What’s UPR?
Ah yes, being police you wouldn’t know. Universal Periodic Review. Every member of UN comes up every 4 years or so and gets questioned on their human rights record. We’re up soon so we want to be able to respond to the inevitable questions about crowd control.
None of their business. Our internal affair. As true Thais we will not be lectured on …
Yes, yes. But it’s part of being in the UN. We have to do it and embarrassing as it is, we have to be ready with some plausible answers.
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