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January 23, 2008
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I was raised a Catholic. My mother was a rabid Catholic who dragged me off to church every Sunday. But even though I was a child I could easily see the contradictions and hypocrisy. Sunday we would go to church, the rest of the week it was ok for my mother to beat the crap out of me.
I recently spent five days in a detoxification facility. I have been consuming way too much alcohol for many years and the time had come to put a stop to the situation, so I did the voluntary check-in through my doctor.
Fifty seven Islamic nations in the United Nations are pushing for a resolution to force all UN member countries pass laws banning religious defamation. This is nothing short of outrageous. Why do the muslims think they can limit our right to freedom of speech just because we have different opinions?
Officer Ma Thida stares at me with a weird scrutinizing facial expression from behind his battered desk. I have the dim feeling he is annoyed by me, the bothersome foreigner, who has intruded his police station with a tedious request.
Incredulously I look at the two saffron-clad monks sitting side by side on a stone bench a few feet away from me. They appear to be beside themselves with glee, watching me balance on the narrow staircase, trying to clean my bare feet with wet wipes.
“Did you notice the old man at the entrance? That’s my father! He is 81 years old! He’s keeping watch! When the secret police shows up, he whistles! Then we escape through the back door, and only you will get arrested!”
Daw, my designated driver for the day, takes me to Paleik, a small town some miles south of Mandalay, to visit the famed Hmwe Paya, better known as the Snake Pagoda. It’s named after three giant pythons that call this place their home.
Than has been my designated chauffeur for the day. He’s a friendly chap, dressed in a traditional, almost ankle-length, skirt-like longyi that leaves me wondering how he manages pedaling on his squeaky trishaw unimpaired. He tells me he has navigated along the wide, flat grid of streets of laid-back Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city, for 25 years already.
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Since the beginning of time, man has dreamed of reaching the stars. Icarus tried to fly to the sun more than 3,000 years ago. Michaelangelo drew up plans for flying machines. Jules Verne dreamed up fanciful stories about flying and time machines. Einstein postulated theories on the space/time continuum.