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The above image, a rose-colored rocky outcrop tipped with ice-blue looks in some ways like a portion of a classical Chinese landscape paint...

Received the email below yesterday: Revolution Books Hurricane Schedule Dear Friends, While it may appear that a non-existent veng...

This is the first paragraph in full of Professor Mendelson's article in the New York Review of Books: "I was always interested ...

Edward Mendelson is a PROFESSOR.   He’s a professor of   English and Comparative Literature at Columbia , which is like a legitimate school...

Who the hell is Edward Mendelson.

And it's not a review of Simon Garfunkel's book, it's just some other guy on fonts.

                                                                          From the New York Review of Books , a fetching previewed article:...

There's a whole book out on fonts. I don't know why.  The individual below ...now above, who looks like he's been looking at fo...

The rebels have entered Colonel Gaddafi's personal, fortified compound at Bab al-Aziziya. "Entered,"...well they were not invi...

al-Islam was at a hotel last night. Free.

Rebels: Good. Protesters: Eh. 

The rebels have entered Tripoli . Colonel Gaddafi’s demon-seed, jackanapes (London-educated), younger son, so devout and true a Muslim tha...

Oh bother. Google "Gang of Four" and the first two entries are for some music band.   Or ,   more people would say google "...

Today, once more, it appears that Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Sphinx of Tripoli, is about to be ousted.  The fight in the Libyan rebels has nev...

Now, you could do: No Par-ar-ty of Len-in-in! Or: O Par-ar-ty of Pu-ooo-tin! But you cannot do: Po-pul’r w’sd’m g’v’n by our foreb’rs!...

O Party of Lenin! You can sing that easily: OOOO Par-ar-ty of Len-in-in! You can not sing this: Popular wisdom given by our forebears! ...

The melody to the Russian national anthem is heroic, melancholy, very moving to me.  The current lyrics are insipid.  The melody was also th...

Ladies and gentlemen, friends and enemies, please join me in singing the Russian national anthem as we celebrate together Democracy in Russ...

Girls go to college to get more knowledge, Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.                              - Second grade jump rope ...

                                                                          It's related to anti-corruption but I didn't read the art...

                                                                    On sleepless nights the soul is closer by. On these nights, like Shen Z...

Spell-check is deep, especially on pinyin: Pinyin                                                             Spell-check suggestion Liu...

                                                               Only people now over 65 years old can remember how closed China was during t...