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I personally know of no other human being who doesn't own a television. When people find out you can see the reaction on their faces be...

President Obama is taking the advice of China on this. It is the Chinese who have told him to delay the missile test. Obama thinks he can...

That is precisely the wrong thing to do. Now is the time for war with North Korea. The United States military is on the Korean peninsula co...

"You're right, Doc, the patient looks a little horse."                                              - Svengoolie (Rich Ko...

The Dear Leader going to deliver the Wolnae Exhortation. So heroic! Dear Leader coming back from Wolnae Islet with a little help f...

We have got to trademark that. Who amongst us knows trademark law? I want a "Totally cut their windpipes" t-shirt.  And cof...

Oh!  Oh! Oh my God!!!!!!!  That is the most awesome threat I have ever heard!  That's enough to make me turn Ko...

Fidel...Castro...CASTRO?...Urges Calm...Fidel Castro Urges CALM?  Just when you think you've seen everything. The Top Banana in t...

In eleven years of writing for a blog named Public Occurrences I have wrestled repeatedly with the issue of whether a topic, frequently an ...

He-he-he. See, hazy white like the sun through air pollution? Bishop's photo of Beijing a while back through an office window?  A littl...

Image: Sunset in Shanghai. Photo by Dan Bishop, Washington Post.

It is man's capacity for belief, the ability to hold to the truth of a matter which reason cannot prove,   that constitutes the bet...

What religion does is free man from rationality.

That makes me feel bad.

Six years ago the proudest boast was "civis Alligatorus sum." Today, in the world of college basketball the proudest boast is...

-usdoj.gov, US Government, Department of Justice. Eeeck!  "amanda marcum enfield."  Whew. -Wofford College. -Bellevue Univ...

Today is a sacred day for Christians. This is what Stephen Greenblatt writes about them and the great religion of Christianity. From "...

Wang Guangmei died in 2006.  Why would there suddenly be this extraordinary interest in a 2009 post, 212 pageviews since Tuesday?  And only ...

Today there have been 95 pageviews of "Anthropology II," the Liu Shaoqi post. Numero dos in today's top ten posts is "Co...

A trip. Maybe a nice trip. I think I'll take a trip somewhere.

snet.net, County of San Diego District Attorney. Hola. "Sexy Chinese Women Soldiers."

-senate.gov, U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms. :o Search keyword "wang guangmei." I think there is Chinese infiltration at the high...

What is their damage?  It was a little blizzard. USA! USA! USA! he-he-he. The ball's half buried! Look at that little Costa Rican gu...

Funeral TBA.

Mr. Personality, Xi Jinping, has escaped Beijing and the insufferable business of greeting Americans and is on his first road trip abroad...

You know, China is weird.

Raise your hand if you had heard of "Florida Gulf Coast University" before last week. Now, this  is why colleges and universi...

Hit 'em again, hit 'em again!  My noble Chinese comrades, I am with you.

Florida Gulf Coast is not the first 15-seed, of which there are four in every NCAA tournament, to beat a two-seed as Figucu did Georgetown. ...

There have been more pageviews of yesterday's post on Florida Gulf Coast than on any other post since February 10. After one day.