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In a shock move last night Grecian Prime Minister George Papandreou called for a nationwide referendum on...the devil is in the details.  Ge...

Fight Team Fight! Sis-boom-bah! Pork chop, pork chop, greasy, greasy, we can beat the Afghans easy, easy!

Maybe not even a timeout.  The lead article in the New York Times earlier this morning was Secretary of State Clinton’s announcement of a ...

To Pakistanis, Wall Street protesters, Southeast Asian Uplanders, ungovernable people everywhere. 

These are some recent paintings by the Chinese-American artist Weimin Mo.  Above is Darrell , I would have guessed a foreman but he's a...

It is manifest destiny. I go to Kiribati.                                                                        

The Tunas have held an election, and for that they should receive unqualified praise. Unqualified praise. What have they chosen?  Accord...

More than 360 dead, but not that little one by the looks of it. The expressions on the faces of the female rescue workers are so loving and...

Manchester is the fifth largest city in England .  With 441,000 people it is the same size as Mesa , Arizona , America ’s 38 th largest c...

On the evidence it seems more likely that Col. Qaddafi was executed while in custody of the Libyan rebels rather than having been killed in ...

Muammar el-Qaddafi, dictator of Libya for forty-two years, was killed today in his hometown of Kurt by Libyan rebels, the Libyan interim gov...

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Will the person who visited this-here blog yesterday from the Republic of Kiribati please email me (Now watch, I'll get an email from s...

Is this some Jewish thing? -Simon Garfield -Edward Mendelson The latest tranche (a troika) of books received from Barnes and Noble inclu...

"The Dying Swan" by the cellist and a young Los Angeles based dancer.  The Chinese-American painter Weimin Mo sent the link in an...

Egyptians have invaded Wall Street. For a couple of weeks people have been occupying Wall Street and protesting.  And the economy is as g...

No shortage of casus belli  for America right now: Pakistan, and yesterday the FBI broke up an Iranian government's plot to off the Saud...

There's a new biography out on Deng Xiaoping by Professor Ezra F.Vogel of Harvard. Mao purged Deng twice (Deng really got under Mao’s...

Continuing our popular series on constabulary occurrences, an individual of the male persuasion was arrested for throwing a hot dog at Amer...

Case No.: M11-44379 Name: Mao, Juewen Address: N607 Shenghong Plz Term 2, Shanghai China Charge: Boat/Careless Oper Disposition: Del...

                                               Great Wall of China. Kept barbarians out. Wrong. Kept Han-Chinese in. Who would have tho...

                                                                        Mr. Jobs, one of the greatest entrepreneurs and innovators in the h...

How do you explain this.

It has been the argument here that the "animating principle," the soul, of China is survival; that of the fundamental human emoti...

Chapter 5. The third stage of the Cultural Revolution （ 1973-1976 ） Although Mao defeated Lin, but his body and mind suffered huge att...