Another friend sent this link from The Economist regarding Thailand - have lots of friends over there and this one shall remain anonymous. He figures the magazine will now get banned for life.
I had a british roommate many years ago when I lived overseas and was always astounded by his obeisance to monarchial authority. I have always had problems with authority of any kind. He felt that his god was much more concerned with the queen's health and welfare than with he himself and was absolutely flabbergasted with my populist rants. He was an attorney actually. He was one of those people that had lost hundreds of pounds and had large folds of skin all over his body like a walrus or a sharpei. I offered him a cookie once and he said in a haughty english voice, "do you mean a biscuit?"
Anyway, I guess the Thai's expected their king to step in during the crisis last week and some are kind of sore that he was quiet. The Nepali king took a dive a few years back and maybe people are thinking that the monarchy thing is some kind of anachronism whose day has passed. Not that we've done so well with the president thing lately... I think it would probably be a rotten job. Pheasant under glass and lot's of people kissing your royal tuckas.
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