Ni Dieu Ni Maitre
The Going Itself is the Way
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Northern Thailand is in an air quality tailspin. When I was briefly there in Chaing Mai at the end of last year, the weather was delightful and the air fresh. Currently it is, frankly, poisonous, running an AQI of 205 today. I am looking at far northern India as an option, but also at very…
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When I arrived in February, it was the end of the monsoon season here, with occasional rain squalls and only a hardy few tourists on Uppeveli Beach. Thanks to America’s fearless (and clueless) leader bowing down to Benny Netanyahu’s mad plan to avoid going to prison in Israel by fomenting endless warfare in the Mideast,…
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Oh, those playful street dogs on Sarvodaya road that sleep in the shade all day and get frisky once the sun goes down. What fun we have, frolicking in the road as I wander along, past the dozen or more places to eat… But wait! There’s blood on my wrist and a scrape from a…
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Arriving in Trincomalee in early February, was it?, I was accosted by the usual station tuk-tuk driver preying on the sleep deprived tourist from the overnight train, overcharged triple for a ride to the hotel which he had a deal with where I was overcharged double for a room. This is pretty normal on arrival…
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Christian, Hindu, Moslem, Buddhist, Official, the Lankans are happy to celebrate them all. Not that there haven’t been serious incidents of sectarian strife over the years… ‘your holiday is my holiday’ rules. At the end of February, the weather began to change. The prevailing strong cool breeze out of the west slackened, the surf became…
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In a study of nearly 28 million older Americans, long-term exposure to fine particle air pollution raised the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. That link held even after researchers accounted for common conditions like high blood pressure, stroke and depression. Fine particle air pollution, known as PM2.5, consists of tiny particles in the air that come from…
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That’s my political commentary for the day. That, and when the notable Fascist Benito Mussolini was asked by a reporter what the philosophical underpinnings of fascism were, he replied, “We don’t think, we act!” This stupa is in the downtown area of Colombo, Sri Lanka, right next door to my very small and inexpensive hotel.…
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This post is out of sequence, as a retrospective on India was planned. As has always happened, the departure from India was part ‘never again’ based on the outrageous and continuing pollution of the atmosphere throughout the subcontinent, and a desire to visit the Northeastern states which currently mostly feature clean air and diverse cultures.…
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If you were able to access my posts, Obsessing and Obsessing 2, you are aware that the big concern over the next move has been Air Quality and the Air Quality Index (AQI), with air pollution being a massive problem these days in India especially. Now added to this is the winter monsoon in the…
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I like to drink beer, and am always curious about new beers. That said, Indian and Southeast Asian beers have been nothing to crow about for the many decades I’ve bicycled around these parts. The only American mass beer that uses rice in their mash is Budweiser, but most beers here do also. Bud uses…
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