Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

Literally.

It seems that the Powers-That-Be in Bangkok want to avoid President Bush and other luminaries being exposed to their city's riverside slums, so their solution is to put up a giant curtain, obscuring the view of the slum.

Talk about "Out of sight, out of mind" as a policy regarding the poor....

(Via Warren Ellis.)

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