Bangkokitis is an extreme form of the culture shock that many tourists experience in foreign lands, magnified by the discordant meeting of modernity and tradition.
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The Myth of Father’s Rights
Being a parent is not right; it's a privilege...Most men do nothing to earn that privilege.
Read More »Football World Cup 2006 Group Draw
The Football World Cup 2006 in Germany next June has thrown up some exciting prospects including the USA v Italy and England v Sweden.
Read More »Dismantling Christmas
People are out to dismantle Christmas as we know it! You’ve got film director and evangelical atheist Brian Flemming declaring “War on Christianity” as part of a marketing campaign for his The God Who Wasn’t There film. “No Christmas pageant or Nativity display is safe from our troops,” says Flemming. …
Read More »Internet Ad Share to Double by 2010
Being caught up in the daily frenzy of activity that is the Internet, where a year is a generation, it’s easy for me to forget that less than ten years ago there was no Internet advertising industry at all, and that less than five years ago the notion of advertising …
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 35 (Women Bloggers)
"If we continue to defend injustice because “that’s how life is”, does that not give a green light for the injustice?"
Read More »Christmas and False Expectations
Everyone sitting in some Norman Rockwell painting: the myth of the family holiday.
Read More »Face Transplant Surgery Raises Ethical Questions
The question of who we see when we look into the mirror is not a trivial one for most of us.
Read More »Theater Review: On Ego at the Soho Theatre
Billed as a "theatre essay", the play succeeds in bringing together medicine and philosophy, performance and literature.
Read More »The High Stakes of Driving High
When did marijuana become the new alcohol?
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