The Thai blogging is going very well. Despite being depressed as hell (past tense) I've been updating regularly, and been getting encouraging comments.

Look, I'm linked to.

ฝรั่งงง
A guy from Vermont learning Thai and Vietnamese.
Eh um okay. I do need to get on that Vietnamese. But I'll skip the being a guy part.

Oh my god I can download youtube videos and put them on my iPod and it works and I can watch Thai lakorn wherever I go!

Also I have a job but that is much less exciting than PORTABLE LAKORN.

Meanwhile

MONTPELIER - Gay marriage opponents are launching a radio campaign aimed at marshaling opposition across northern New England.

The “Don’t Mess with Marriage” ads, which will be aired in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont starting Monday, are sponsored by the National Organization for Marriage, a Princeton, N.J., group that has been active in ( Read more... )

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Watned - editors, bloggers (Vermont)

Apparently so.

I read Boing Boing, and they introduced a really wacky guest blogger guy.

Eventually he got around to his take on atheism.

I think closeted atheists who participate in other religious activities are the future of atheism. They know that prayer feels good without a needing brain scientist to tell them, and they know you don't need God to want to feed ( Read more... )

Glen Beck's "We Surround Them" thing is pretty fucking creepy.

So, how do we show America what’s really behind the curtain? Below are nine simple principles. If you believe in at least seven of them, then we have something in common. I urge you to read the instructions at the end for how to help make your voice heard.

Apparently you are only American ( Read more... )

I have:

• Health insurance.
• A vague understanding of descriptive vs structuralist linguistics
• Sushi
• No clue how the fuck to type Vietnamese like seriously is it that hard to add a fucking diacritic?