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A sad day yesterday. Far and I spent the early morning freezing our asses off in northern Thailand with a northern wind from all the bad places up north. Fuck the north. The wind eased up. In between hauling armloads of pruned branch debris from trees, I sought refuge on the tailgate of my pickup…

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I’ll get to that story at the end. OK, so here’s what went down. A few weeks back, I snagged myself a diesel pickup truck, and then I figured, why the hell not? I loaded up with my Thai girlfriend, one of her sons, and his pregnant girlfriend, and we hit the road for a…

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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, and what I mean by that is that somehow this year feels different. A couple of years ago, I nonchalantly did a video on Christmas, noting that it was the 13th or 14th year since 1984 that I hadn’t been with family for the holiday, because I’ve…

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I’ve said many times that I love my adopted country, Thailand, because it is socially, politicaly, and religiously conservative. Things don’t change much. Thailand translates literally to “land of the free.” You’re welcome to check me on that. SO another way to read this piece (link below) is that Thailand is fine just the way…

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What pisses me off most when I think about this whole Epstein circus—and honestly, I don’t even think the Epstein thing itself is that big a goddamn deal—is how it’s been artificially inflated into this massive scandal. And the main thing keeping the hype alive? All these supposed “files” and documents we’re told are gonna…

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