[writing station inside Stung Treng Market, 3/23/23] This morning, I bought an $18 ticket for Don Det, Laos, so this is my last full day in Cambodia. Writing this, I’m sitting in a tiny cafe owned by a Khmer Krom, meaning she’s a Cambodian from southern Vietnam.
The American propaganda machine is operating at full stretch. They brought Jew-Boy Al Franken out of moth balls to host Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" recently. It was the usual two-pronged approach. An all-out attack on Trump, while simultaneously promoting the proxy war in Ukraine.
Jew Boy Blinken declared the other day that a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire "would violate the UN charter". They're terrified China might broker a peace deal.
The shit should really hit the fan next year. Can you imagine what the Presidential race is going to look like ?
ps...I give Obama a slight edge over Trump in acting & con-man skills.
Posed photos may be static, but when my mother visited China people wanted her to take their picture. And being my mother, she obliged. This was decades ago as you may have guessed when regular people didn't have cameras.
I do love these photos, the people and the bright colors, though in my own life I rarely took pictures of people, preferring dead trees on mountaintops.
Linh, do the people ever mind that you take their picture? So many of your pictures seem completely candid. How do you do it? I enjoy your pictures, and I usually open them up in new tabs so I can appreciate them.
Thanks Linh, I was thinking, compared to purely (geo-)political commentators, you don't have to repeat yourself on and on using different words. Your daily life brings you inspiration, which in turn enables you to undertand better than most of us the troubles of the world.
Intelligence is like mosquitoes, always from the bottom up.
Divorce seem to have been globalized. In my parents' generation, it has rare. In my grandparents' generation, almost unheard of. Now most people I know, even young people, are divorced at least once. US, Latin America, Europe, all the same. I thought Asia was different, but I've read than in Japan today one third of marriages end in divorce. That seems low compared to the 50% in the US, however, what happens is that in Japan a lot of people are not even marrying at all, ever. If you don't marry, you can't divorce...
Linh
The American propaganda machine is operating at full stretch. They brought Jew-Boy Al Franken out of moth balls to host Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" recently. It was the usual two-pronged approach. An all-out attack on Trump, while simultaneously promoting the proxy war in Ukraine.
Jew Boy Blinken declared the other day that a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire "would violate the UN charter". They're terrified China might broker a peace deal.
The shit should really hit the fan next year. Can you imagine what the Presidential race is going to look like ?
ps...I give Obama a slight edge over Trump in acting & con-man skills.
Bill
Posed photos may be static, but when my mother visited China people wanted her to take their picture. And being my mother, she obliged. This was decades ago as you may have guessed when regular people didn't have cameras.
I do love these photos, the people and the bright colors, though in my own life I rarely took pictures of people, preferring dead trees on mountaintops.
Excellent as always, Linh!
And a very important point about being in charge of one’s own destiny, and what it means for the quality of one’s own life.
Linh, do the people ever mind that you take their picture? So many of your pictures seem completely candid. How do you do it? I enjoy your pictures, and I usually open them up in new tabs so I can appreciate them.
So delightful to start my day with one of your posts. I really appreciate hearing about your travels. Thanks so much!
Thanks Linh, I was thinking, compared to purely (geo-)political commentators, you don't have to repeat yourself on and on using different words. Your daily life brings you inspiration, which in turn enables you to undertand better than most of us the troubles of the world.
Intelligence is like mosquitoes, always from the bottom up.
Lovely.
"So much for the stable Asian family."
Divorce seem to have been globalized. In my parents' generation, it has rare. In my grandparents' generation, almost unheard of. Now most people I know, even young people, are divorced at least once. US, Latin America, Europe, all the same. I thought Asia was different, but I've read than in Japan today one third of marriages end in divorce. That seems low compared to the 50% in the US, however, what happens is that in Japan a lot of people are not even marrying at all, ever. If you don't marry, you can't divorce...
I hope linh dinh will leave asia one day.