Thaksin gets a rousing welcome in Chiang Mai

Good morning world and especially all the Fishwrap readers.
This is the early edition of Fishwrap for Sunday, Saint Patrick's Day.
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My star sign is Pyrex. I was a test-tube baby. (Billy Connolly)
  

Dr. Jekyll inhales white powder and becomes an obnoxious Southern Californian.
Best one-line movie review of the week: https://shorturl.at/avyG8

Thaksin finally makes it to Chiang Mai
Local politicians, high-ranking police and civil servants give him all the trappings due a prime minister
Holding hands with daughter Ung Ing -- unmasked but still with the neck brace, which he removed later.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2758636/

OPINION EDITORIAL
Possibly... but the obvious question is, when was the first time it shone?
Suvarnabhumi can shine again
When it was opened to the public in 2006, Suvarnabhumi Airport reflected the mood and aspirations of the entire nation.

General MacArthur Begs to Differ
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has dropped Duty, Honour, Country from its mission statement.
Which seems woker than the Most Woke act it could perform.

Here is Duty, Honour, Country by General MacArthur
https://www.artofmanliness.com/duty-honor-country-by-general-douglas-macarthur/
With which of the above two would you rather share a foxhole?

Popular Brit politician Michael Gove is in with one of those Everything Is Going Swimmingly analyses:
 Little people, you’ve never had it so good
Maybe. His type of Machiavellian geek only says such a thing when they're planning to make it worse.
TCW https://t.ly/DLSgD

Let's fake it up and keep Covid panics alive. https://t.ly/T7fCX
 Support for the "IT'S A BAD FLU" theory:
 Long COVID 'indistinguishable' from other post-viral syndromes a year after infection.

Super-Related
If you were thinking about it at all, that is,
 Long Covid is even faker than you thought.
The term 'long Covid' should be dropped from use, because Covid has no more aftereffects than the flu or other mild respiratory illnesses.
 Research and Publication from Australia

TECHNOLOGY
CHANGE? Or a newly purchased American agent of the CCP?
Former Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is putting together an investor group to buy TikTok.

Photo shows Team Hamas Barcelona scrolling a banner on which they think are all the names of casualties in Gaza.

Yeah, they are.
Hamas is Faking All of Its Fake Casualty Figures
The terrorist group has converted U.S. President Joe Biden and his cancer-ailing Secretary (equal to 'minister') of Defence Lloyd Austin into Useful Tools.
Hamas' claims about how their hated Jews are slaughtering women and children in Palestine wouldn't fool a rookie actuarial at any second-rate life insurance company.
But Hamas is getting away with it. Here's how they do it... it's really simple.
Tabletmag: https://shorturl.at/acrR6

ISLAMISM TERRORISM
by Raymond Ibrahim
 How atrocities, beheadings, and carnage 'Heal Muslim Hearts.'
 Such claims are actually derived from Islam's most holy and sacred text.

WOEING
Two too-true stories.
1/ Dave Calhoun was hired to fix Boeing. fACT!
2/ Under Dave Calhoun, Boeing is a laughable embarrassment.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/business/boeing-ceo-dave-calhoun/index.html

This seems pretty gd obvious to most of us. Or almost all of us.
 Although some instruction on How To Build An Aeroplane would be helpful.
Boeing needs organisational shift to end crisis
They conclude, equally obviously but pessimistically
 As Boeing grapples with these challenges, it must recalibrate its cultural compass. Accountability, stability, and commitment to safety as a core value are essential to rebuilding trust, enhancing safety measures, and upholding organisational excellence within the aviation industry. Boeing's current course will inevitably lead to organisational and competitive decline.
Michelle and Ashley, who wrote the entire article, are paid by Georgia State University and by Cross-Cultural Management and Psychology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

We noticed
Buddhism is always oddly political
Article author Qi Guanxiong is a Thai Studies PhD student at Chulalongkorn University specialising in Thai Buddhism.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2759623/
PHOTO: Worshippers walk around a shrine containing the relics of the Buddha and his chief disciples Sariputra and Moggallana during Macha Bucha on last March 2.
 The relics are being displayed in Thailand until Monday.
 Indians brought them to Thailand to mark Macha Bucha, and also to help to celebrate the 72nd birthday of King Vajiralongkorn on July 28.

ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS
Best weekend read, so far, is by the American skirt who calls herself Ammo Grrlll:
What We Can Learn From Professional Sports -- Especially Baseball.
And it ends with a terrific Anecdote For Wrinklies that might be true.

[Not the Sunday Joke Of The Day -- But Better]

In an interview after his retirement a sportscaster asked the unmatchable and never-matched Ted Williams what he thought his batting average would be in the current era. Williams said, "Oh, I don’t know, probably about .220." The sportscaster was incredulous. "You had a lifetime average of .344, and you think you would only hit .220 today? Why? Because of the way managers use several pitchers a game?" "Nah," replied terrible Ted, "Because I'm 70 years old." [h/t Ammo Grrrl]

We hope you have something pleasant planned for Sunday... but if you don't, why not just solve the world's toughest math problem? You have the whole day.
Find the Perfect Number that is also an Odd Number.
Supposedly, it's the oldest unsolved math problem, unsolved by DesCartes, Ochem, Nicomachus, Fermat, Euer, Pascal, Mersenne and so on and so forth.

More Intro
Perfectly Odd: The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math

Notice that all these 'perfect' numbers are even.
Is there such a thing as an Odd-Perfect Number? You've got all day Sunday, and surely you won't need all that time?!?
Background, history, 31 minutes at