Bangkok is no longer burning

Thank goodness.

If you're looking for an short explanation of recent events, I've surprised myself by liking this quick one from Slate. Of course, people are deeply divided in Thailand about the what and why of this violence, so no one brief explanation can really get at it, but this one comes far closer than the "rural poor versus elite" line that's reverberating throughout the foreign media. That description is at best simplistic and omission laden, at worst a complete misrepresentation.

Not residing in a province under curfew,
Rebecca