Good stuff here

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4401

This seems a good site - as is ** urban myths snopes ** for most of the stuff you've heard (especially Americans)

There are no obvious parallels between the situation of sojourners in Cambodia with that of sojourners in the Gulf countries. Although Vietnam is, by far, a more developed country than Cambodia, Vietnamese work, legally and illegally, in Cambodia while Cambodians, Burmese and Laotians work, legally ...

This is sound piece of writing. The reality is that things - in one person's estimation* - haven't changed much since 1975 except that the Yemenis simply vanished (their government failed to denounce and excoriate Saddam Hussein vehemently enough in the aftermath of his invasion of Kuwait) and that ...

On this VERY smart website - NOT alt-right or alt-left - there is this: http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/06/a-prospective-bump-stock-ban-shows-how-d Bump stocks retail at $99 and look like an easy D-I-Y project for a weekend hobbyist in a nation of Mister Fixits with a home workshop and a few tools

After one widely-reported death, that of a black athlete skilled at whizzing balls around, hysterical politicians raced legislation onto the statute books:

http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/28/len-b ... e-act-1986

Thank goodness Cambodia lacks such silly politicians

Reaching the end of one's earthly journey as a result of unintentionally overdosing on substance X - under the misapprehension that it was substance Y - is
almost certainly the gods' way of telling the ill-fated snorter that s/he has no business walking the earth any longer.

When Norman the Aussie was breeding big Australian roosters in SR - he had a tiny, cheap incubator and imported fertile eggs in his hand baggage - he had to keep his birds tightly guarded; rightly or wrongly, he suspected that the simple-minded locals would equate his roosters' mighty size with figh...

Not quite new but ...

http://www.askthepilot.com/separation-o ... h-and-sky/

All this chap's stuff is worth reading

Has Sailorman crossed the River Styx?

If so, when?

In Bali there is an entire subculture of young male gigolos who have impelled themselves to speak passable conversational Japanese and whose sexual services are commercially available to the neglected and bored wives of the selfless sarariman (vacationless) culture Plus Japan - that unique country -...