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In fighting IS, don't mimic its evil ways
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/02/2015
» It was a sad week, a week of satanic beheadings, then the barbarous immolation, executed and filmed by that godless bunch as if in mockery of Hollywood war movies. A week of moral anger and global blood lust, from Amman to Tokyo by way of Iraq. A week of sadness that quickly morphed into something like vengeance, as war cries sounded over the medieval fortresses of Jordan and Egypt and echoed to the South China Sea.
All fired up on a one-way trip to purgatory
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/11/2013
» Finally, we've arrived at the point where Suthep Thaugsuban wants to be Jennifer Lawrence (I shudder). If not in looks and curves, then in the spirit of her character: the Girl on Fire who sparks hope and conquers fear and plays the unvanquishable Mohican and leads the people - the validly frustrated people - on a path of revolution against the evil president. Soon he'll be asking for a bow and arrows and order a special screening of The Hunger Games on the giant screen at his Ratchadamnoen fortress. Jesus Buddha Mohammed help us, our Man on Fire doesn't seem to realise what Dante and Jatuporn Prompan (another J-Law lookalike) did a few years back: Going to hell is easy, it's coming back alive that is the problem.
Love is blind, but only when hate has a say
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/07/2012
» Love, as any Romeo knows, is blind. Fondness is scary when it turns into folly, admiration when it turns into obsession, and when being a fan crosses the line into fanaticism. Just like romance, which is tender, and romanticism, which is cloying. Amour is all rosy and nice, but amour fou is dark and dangerous; the world's original recipe for poison.