Kampuchea Crossings

Bump to baby on the beaten expat track

Nathalie Abejero

News feed gems

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I don’t open my RSS reader very often these days; today I get two gems.

One is the graphic slaughter of an elephant by GoDaddy.com’s CEO, in some misguided attempt to help some poor Zimbabweans protect their crops and get some protein at the same time (um..huh?!). Boy am I glad we took our websites off GoDaddy!

And then there’s the Scarlet e-Letter. Third year student Alexandra Wallace had to leave the UCLA (dropped out?) because of the outrage, including harassment and death threats to her family, on the heels of her YouTube rant against Asians. Check out this video. As a bonus, the guy’s voice ain’t half bad, so I voted for him (clicked on the thumbs up) for YouTube NextUp!
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why conservation is a losing battle

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Seemed like all restaurants we went to in Ratanakiri will serve any and all types of wild-caught meat. The more endangered it is, the greater the demand. But the most creative menu I found was at a restaurant in Kampot, where threatened species each had its own conservation poster hanging on the wall. Diners point at the posters to order that particular meat dish :-\

a Ratanakiri sunset

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Sunset views from the east side of Boeung Kan Siang Lake, in Banlung, Ratanakiri, Cambodia. This side of the lake is where food stalls and mats are set up. It’s beautiful, sitting on the bank eating fertilized duck eggs — such peace and quiet with just the occasional ash wafting by from slash and burn practices (deforestation? shifting cultivation?). Photos by Keith Kelly.

You see the smoke from these burning fields practically everywhere you go in the province. I guess that makes for pretty sunsets..

Breastfeeding is a partisan issue??

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Image from babynursingblog.com

Really?? A “leftist agenda” of a “nanny state”? I especially love the bashing of Michelle Obama’s breastfeeding advocacy after Palin’s own breastfeeding initiative in 2007.

Why people choose leaders with nothing constructive to add to the dialogue except to auto-bash the other party’s efforts is beyond me. Great quote from one of the commenters to the above blog post:

“Empty vessels make the loudest sound, they have the least wit and are the greatest blabbers” Plato

And a shame that people blindly follow.