happy new year

Holy crap. Three years ago, I spent New Years at the square near where one of the bombs went off. And saw the (now deposed) prime minister who some are apparently holding responsible for all this.

As a somewhat bizarre aside, the police actually started firing on part of the crowd when we were there that New Years. Some people were throwing glass bottles, so the police just whipped out their guns and started firing away. As we were dodging fire, we figured the police were probably just firing rubber bullets, but our students later said they're not so into the whole rubber bullet thing in Thailand.