Are the Bangkok Protests Really as Bad as They Say?

I generally try and stay away from writing about Thailand's constantly shifting, often ridiculous and usually baffling politics. This is due to the fact that I'm admittedly kind of dense when it comes to politics; I see them as I see art - I know what I like and don't like, but as for the theories on origin or dissection of ideology, I really have no idea. I find that, generally speaking, politicians can't be trusted and money talks, and that's all you need to know. The ongoing protests in Bangkok are definitely double-plus un-good and have been covered quite well, but I've seen some things in the news that kind of shocked me which I wanted to extrapolate on.

On Politics and Extra-terrestrials

Well, even though there have been billions of words written around the world about the campaign that Barack Obama just won, I thought I'd put my two cents forward because, well, this is my blog and that's what blogs are for. In a word - elated. That's what I feel. I don't believe I'm alone when I say that 'catastrophic' is too small a word to describe the train wreck that was George W. Bush, but now, finally, we can start to see the light. I'm not saying Obama will save the world, the country or even fix the economy or lower taxes; but he's certainly the best chance we have to start heading in the right direction. But there's one thing bothering me...

Meanwhile, in Bangkok: Hairless Knuckles

Everyone knows that Asian men, for the most part, have very little body hair, while it's similarly known that many western men are gorillas in comparison. Most of us, thankfully, fall somewhere in between. But I noticed this banner ad at the Siam BTS station a few weeks ago, and commented to my girlfriend that I was surprised that the guy in the picture had hairy knuckles, as not a lot of Asian women like hairy dudes (she then reiterated that she'd like me to shave my chest, but that's a different story). At any rate, yesterday I noticed the same ad at the same station, but with a slight difference.

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