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An article in the Jul 15-31 edition of 博客天下 (Blog Weekly) titled “你的糗事 我的快乐” (Your uncomfortable moment, my happiness) offers some good news: laughing at other people’s misfortune is a universal pleasure. The article talks about how the FML phenomenon has spread to China and lists five popular Chinese sites that do the same kind of thing that Fuck My Life (fmylife.com) does for English language netizers (my new term). Since I’m hip to the jive, I know that ‘fuck my life’ has spread, like a spore, from the nexicon (net lexicon) to the oral vernacular — people talking, for those of you that don’t habla netinese. If you actually do useful things with your life you may not be aware of the whole FML phenom. It works like so: people submit short “true”stories and you laugh at them with the giddy relief that wells up when something bad happens to someone else.  You also get to vote whether the person “totally deserved ...READ MORE

exactly like the title says. and while a picture may be worth a 1000 words, i’m not sure that the year end/2010 predictions issue of  Caijing this picture came from is worth the 35 RMB i anted up for it at 7-11 in a weak, under-caffeinated haze.

内容已经在标题说好了。可能按照俗语的说法一张图片值得一千词但是我觉得这张图片来自的财经杂志年底版并不值得35元（在7-11还没喝咖啡特别瞌睡的时候买的）！

** 前句话写的特别差，如果有建议怎么该请告诉我！一直到我的汉语水平进步很多我要用更短更简单的话。

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现在有一些特别好的”bridge”博客把中文的博客翻译成英文: ChinaGeeks, Veggie Discourse, chinaSMACK, ChinaHush, 等等. 这个对不能读汉语或读汉语特别满的人(之一我)有很大的好处. 通过这个博客和写的博客的人的努力我们可以更好理解中国和一些中国的现象. 这些博客的帖子部分常常有很热闹(而有时候很傻)的谈论. 有点儿遗憾的就是这个交流都是英文的所以交通都是单向的. 我希望我们外国人更努力地试试用中文跟我们中国网友联系.

我写这个文章(post怎么说?)的主要的原因是为了请求你们的推荐. 我一直再找好看的博客和别的中文的媒体. 我天天听英文的播客(podcast?), ...READ MORE

I’ll never know if it’s counted or not but technically speaking I have actually voted and I did actually vote for Jorak. Despite not agreeing with most of their policies.

I’m always saying people should vote on issues and not gut and I completely voted on gut – Obama seems ridiculously calm and I think we could use that. But his policies – from healthcare, to Afghanistan, to nuclear energy, to FISA, to drilling, to Biden’s votes in 05 on the bankruptcy acts which got us where we are now… just don’t do it for me and I would have rather voted for Nader.

I know people find that ridiculous and worthy of derision but when are people going to stop back to the same abusive parties. I don’t believe in the patient approach either. Sure, after 10 years in ...READ MORE

forget getting out of the country, get the fuck off the planet. now all that richard branson space tourism craziness is starting to make sense.

Stephanie sent me this amazing (in the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah pillar of salt awesome sense) Rolling Stone article by Tim Dickinson about John McCain

Summary: do NOT let this man get elected.

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No, I’m not apologizing for calling David Addington (above) one of the worst men in the world. I realize I haven’t done that publicly, yet, but I’m still planning to do it (call him out not apologize for it).

我并不是道歉叫David Addington（上面的照片）世界上最坏的人之一。我知道我还没有当众这样的说，但是我还打算 （打算叫他世界上最坏的人之一，不打算道歉）。

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George W Bush
乔治·W·布什
qiao2 zhi4 * W * bu4 shi2
Republican. Current American President. About to finish 2 terms (8 years) in office. His father George HW Bush was President before Clinton. I have absolutely nothing good to say about Bush and apparently his party doesn’t either – he did not come to the Republican Convention and his approval ratings are the lowest of any president ever.

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yo yo yo, anyone who knows me or has merely been within a hundred yards of me knows I love trumpeting my half-cocked views on American politics and the world situation. I’m always interested in putting this same hurt on the 1 billion or so Chinese here and so in an effort to muddy international relations further I want to make some bilingual guides to things we – foreigners learning Chinese, Chinese learning English, anyone who is fluent enough in either language and has some interest (I calculate total readership at about 3 billion people) in things that may not be covered in our classes.

大家好！ 你们见过面我的人都肯定知道我对国际事态尤其美国政治有兴趣。我想能跟中国人讨论政治和别的（我以为）比较有意思的话题。为了实现这个目的我开始写双语文 件帮我们学习而沟通。外国人学习汉语，中国人学习英语，人能看得懂中文或英文而对这些话题有兴趣的人都可以用。（我认为可能三十亿人都能用）。我们学生的 课程常常不教这个话题所以我觉得这样的资源特别实用。

Chinese not ...READ MORE