Happy Green Day (the original, not the Greta one) to all readers. Just to reassure possible visitors to Nong Bon and the region: It is not snowing! Ramadan 27 Rangoon First prayer 0455 Break fast Maghrib 1815
The Strait of Hormuz is open. Except it is closed to the tankers and ships belonging to our enemies. “It is only closed to American, Israeli ships and tankers, and not to others.”
Abbas: Klaatu barada nikto!
ST. PATRICK’S DAY FUN FACT There are now more Muslims just in England (4 million), than there are ethnically Irish in the whole of Ireland (3.9 million).
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines Oscar 2026: Should We Even Care?
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. -- The late Lou Holtz, U.S. football coaching legend.
Violence over Iran alarms Thailand quite alarmingly. For example, where the heck will we get our oil products? Well, every nation has hometown headlines on frontpages that TV “news”. The new, so-called Thai ‘government’ tried price controls -- you can’t put more than 700 Thai baht (21 bucks) of petrol or NGV or diesel or in your car, truck or aeroplane. No, strike that, not planes or army tanks, sorry. Anyways... That failed within a day, predictably. Thailand has a 90-day supply of fuel, cooking gas and other civilian fuels. The only true problem was keeping the lights on -- virtually all Thai generators use LNG. Thai problem lasted two days until the government-owned PTT energy giant negotiated new supplies of Liquid Natural Gas from a U.S. company in Texas. Bottom line: The hysteria will continue because what other fun is there?
MAKE A QUICK $10 MILLION and get a free U.S. green card as a bonus All you have to do is guess the location and condition of the erectilely dysfunctional nepo-supreme leader of Iran. Marco Rubio’s State Department offers all of the above.
Career-long film reviewer Kong Rithdee, on the best film that didn’t win an Oscar. From 1977 to the overthrow of the Shah by Islamists, more than 120 cinemas in Iran were torched. The worst case of these horrors was in 1978. The Rex Cinema in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze and the doors were locked by the arsonists. Four hundred and twenty people were trapped and killed.
Yesterday morning Iran time, in Hollywood: Best original screenplay WINNER: Sinners - Ryan Coogler It Was Just an Accident - Jafar Panahi Best international feature WINNER: Sentimental Value It Was Just an Accident
AS OF LAST EVENING Average wait times by specialist in Canada: Neurosurgery: 49.9 weeks Orthopaedic Surgery: 48.6 weeks Otolaryngology: 43.8 weeks Plastic Surgery: 41.5 weeks Gynaecology: 40.6 weeks General Surgery: 31.8 weeks Ophthalmology: 20.8 weeks Urology: 25.7 weeks Cardiovascular Surgery (Elective): 19.6 weeks Internal Medicine: 21.2 weeks Medically Assisted Dying: 0 days.
Re: "Average wait times - Urology: 25.7 weeks". The takeaway - don't get a dose (of NSU, of course).