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My Ashley Madison Sex Account Hacked: How I Told Online Blackmailers to F*&k Off

September 29, 2015 by wpfixit

My Ashley Madison Account Was Hacked and Someone Tried to Blackmail Me. This Was My Response……. By Nate Thayer September 28, 2015 Today, I received this email from “Robert” attempting to blackmail me if I didn’t send him three bitcoins in exchange for “Robert” not releasing “dirt” to my “family and friends and employer” from […]

Filed Under: Gonzo Journalism, Humor, Internet media ethics, Sex Tagged With: Ashley Madison, Nate Thayer, sex

Sex and the Freelance Blogger: The very disturbing reasons why people read my journalism

October 10, 2014 by wpfixit

Why Homeland Security Might Well be Advised of the People Who Read my Blog Nate Thayer October 10, 2014 I really should stop doing this because it makes me want to make an upwardly mobile career change to, say, working the night shift running the cash register as an urban 7-11, but occasionally I peak […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Humor, Nate Thayer, Sex Tagged With: blog, Nate Thayer, sex

Bin Laden’s wet dream: Cheeky Brits celebrate their terror attack on D.C.

August 27, 2014 by wpfixit

Our Cheeky Brit Cousins London celebrates their terrorist attack on D.C.: Inflame still raw memories of former colonial subjects The wet dream of Osama Bin Laden By Nate Thayer August 27, 2014 Oh those wily Poms and their charming, subtle, stiff upper lipped wit. Very, very subtle. Let’s be frank here. It is high time […]

Filed Under: British politics, Humor, Nate Thayer, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy Tagged With: British politics, Nate Thayer, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy

The dirty little secret of mental illness: What killed Robin Williams made the rest of us smile

August 11, 2014 by wpfixit

Mental illness was part of the true, inextricable, celebrated package of Robin Williams’ genius and should be freed from the bondage of the taboo dirty little secret it remains.  By Nate Thayer August 11, 2014 Robin Williams was genuine and flawed and a genius and a manic-depressive and an addict and he made the world a better […]

Filed Under: Humor, mental illness, Nate Thayer, Robin Williams Tagged With: Humor, mental illness, Nate Thayer, Robin williams

A Heavenly Meal Located Somewhere Near Hell, China: A Food Review

July 13, 2014 by wpfixit

A Heavenly Meal Located Somewhere Near Hell, China: A Food Review  The best meal I have ever had,  served by a restaurant whose name I don’t know, located in a city I have never figured out was where, in China By Nate Thayer July 13, 2014 You gotta admit that the Chinese have this whole […]

Filed Under: China, Food, Humor, Mongolia, Nate Thayer, Uncategorized Tagged With: China, Food Review, Mongolia, Nate Thayer

“She pissed off the Queen, now she’s dead ”Why Brits Are Loopier Than Americans Re: Fruitcake Conspiracy Theories?

February 24, 2014 by wpfixit

Why Are The Brits Even More Loopy Than Americans When it Comes to Fruitcake Conspiracy Theories? By Nate Thayer February 24, 2013 Some may recall that in December 2012 a couple of radio disc jockey pranksters in Australia called the London hospital where the pregnant Princess whatever-her-name-is was staying having taken ill with tummy troubles. […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, British royal family, Conspiracy Theories, Free Speech, Humor, Internet, Internet Freedom, Internet Journalism, Internet media ethics, Journalistic Ethics, Media, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog Tagged With: British Royal family, Conspiracy theories, free speech, Internet Journalism, Journalism ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Social Media

No More Creampuff Journalism: Readers React in Letters to the Editor

February 1, 2014 by wpfixit

No More Creampuff Journalism Sometime public commentary on the published writings of a journalist can get nasty, sometimes snarky, and sometimes downright witty. Here, readers react with a series of letters to the editor to an interview I did with Khmer Rouge Prime Minister Khieu Samphan published in the Phnom Penh Post. It wasn’t pretty, but it […]

Filed Under: Cambodia, Criticism of, Humor, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Phnom Penh Post Tagged With: Humor, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Phnom Penh Post

Golf, Cambodia, and the ‘very cornerstone of morality’

November 19, 2013 by wpfixit

Golf, Cambodia, and the ‘very cornerstone of morality’ From my mailbox: Dear Nate, I have read your missives on Cambodia on Face Book and elsewhere with great interest. You are truly prolific and I walk in your shadow. I hardly ever reply to Face Book. I hardly get the time. Due to our mutual deep […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Corruption, Humor Tagged With: Cambodia, Corruption, Golf, Humor, Hun Sen, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog

The Childhood Education of a Cantankerous Journalist

October 28, 2013 by wpfixit

The Early Education of a Future Cantankerous Journalist: 7th grade English class papers from a 12 year old By Nate Thayer October 28, 2013 I recently moved several hundred boxes of books, papers, and various possessions I have acquired through my decidedly nomadic, itinerant life from a storage unit into the basement of my new […]

Filed Under: #Paythewriter, Blog Nate Thayer, Free People, Free Speach, Freelance Journalism, Humor, Journalism, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Writers Tagged With: Freelance Journalism, Humor, Journalism, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Writing

How Hordes of U.S. Republican Party Apparatchik’s Toppled the Mongolian Communist Descendants of Genghis Khan

October 6, 2013 by wpfixit

How Hordes of U.S. Republican Party Apparatchik’s Toppled the Mongolian Communist Descendants of Genghis Khan Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with the Mongolian Voter” was the single largest printed and most widely distributed document in Mongolian History, and Crucial to Overthrowing History’s Second Longest Ruling Communist Government Without Shedding a Drop of Blood: The  “Contract with Mongolia.” From the archives […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Free People, Free Speech, Humor, Nate Thayer, U.S. Asian Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Republican Party Mongolia Tagged With: free speech, Mongolia, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Newt Gingrich "Contract with Mongolia", U.S. Asian Policy, U.S. Politics, U.S. Republican Party Mongolia

Pyongyang Porn: “Some readers may find the book objectionable” @NKNewsorg

August 23, 2013 by wpfixit

Excerpts from Pyongyang Porn “Some readers may find the book objectionable” BY NATE THAYER , AUGUST 23, 2013 For the full story, go to NKNews.org at http://www.nknews.org/2013/08/pyongyang-porn/ , the news organization that comprehensively provides quality journalism on all North Korea. Below are excerpts……. Artwork by NK News illustrator Cammy Smithwick   Mhari Yi, who moved to Edinburgh to attend Napier University […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Humor, Internet Freedom, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-un, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, NK News, NKNews.org, North Korea, North Korean Porn, North Korean Sex, Pyongyang Porn, Sex Tagged With: free speech, Humor, Journalism, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, North Korea, North Korea Media, North Korean propaganda, North Korean Sex, Pyongyang Porn, sex

I’m leaving, on a jet plane–Edward’s excellent spy adventure

June 24, 2013 by wpfixit

I’m leaving, on a jet plane: Edward’s excellent spy adventure A young whistleblower named Ed Was wanted by agents, so fled. Abbetted by hackers He’s off to Caracas For Snowden, red’s better than dead! From the limerick Tweeting Mick Twister By Nate Thayer June 24, 2013 It is a journalists worst nightmare. Tricked by international spies […]

Filed Under: Edward Snowden, Free People, Humor, Internet Freedom, Internet Journalism, Media, Nate Thayer, NSA, Spies Tagged With: Edward Snowden, free speech, Journalism, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, NSA, NSA spy scandal, Spies

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