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The name of this blog is a goal, not a description.  No, not a goal either, that's impossible. More like a reminder.  A reminder to writ...

                                                                     The dominant public occurrence of the last twenty-four hours in ...

                                                               American rock and pop music can be very melodramatic, overly serious, or ang...

                                               "Thank you America for having me here in the United States." -Roya Dur Mohommad

"Now that I'm an American, life is good!"

" It’s a pleasure for me to live in such a great place, so, to my fellow citizens, don’t take this for granted.”

Photos: Andy Anderson for Spirit Magazine.

From the sponsors of a symposium, Rediscovering China's Cultural Revolution, that I attended at NYU in December, 2008: from Revolu...

                                                       From Chinese television, 2009 with (atrocious) Google translation, on interview of ...

Below is from a book,  " Donkey Baby: From Beijing to Berkeley and Beyond"   (2008) ,   by Sonia J. Song: "On Augu...

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                                                                                               Three years ago when I began my bomb-throw...

                                                            On April 20 an oil rig leased to British Petroleum exploded in the G...

Yesterday the Colorado University "Buffaloes" quit the Big XII Conference to join the Pacific 10 Conference.  Today the University...

                           The Murder of Lynne Friend On Sunday August 28, 1994 Lynne Friend spent the day packing up her things for the ...