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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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UPDATE – JAN 26: I wrote this a week ago when I still clearly felt sanguine enough about the political situation in America to sort of be able to joke about it. That was then. News today that Obama is freezing domestic spending is giving me a fucking embolism. Read this and sob. I am speechless. Enjoy it while it lasts.

black cats

JAN 14: The world lost another great reason to have sex today — Teddy Pendergrass passed away. Driving home at 3am and hearing “Love TKO” on AM 1290 was always to wish that there was a real secret garden, covered in velour, that one could be inside of. Kind of like the garden of eden but with more mirrorballs, bearskin rugs, fireplaces and hotpants. Another grittier soul stirrer that hurts so good is Howard Tate’s “Get it While You Can” which, in a velour covered nutshell, would be my advice to the current democratic ...READ MORE

I listen to a lot of excellent podcasts and stay semi-tuned in to news in America. I’m continually saddened and frustrated by the way in which the debates about extremely important issues are framed in a way that prevents any truly useful discussion from taking place. Just listened to a On Point podcast on the travel embargo that prevents Americans from traveling from Cuba. This is on NPR and is what I suppose a lot of people would think of as a left-leaning show. During the 45 minutes they discussed the embargo, Cuba’s human rights abuses were mentioned well over a dozen times (though not explained in much detail) and used, in different ways by the different speakers, to justify their varying views on the ban. Callers, a United States Senator, a former Havana bureau chief and a guy from Human Rights Watch ...READ MORE

“They Reminisce Over You” by Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth

Off the classic “Mecca and the Soul Brother” album, T.R.O.Y. is one of the best hip hop songs ever made. It’s probably one of the best songs ever made. Since much has been written about it, and you only need to listen to the song to know what’s up, I’m not going to go into detail about it. Despite the brags and the boasting, maybe even because of it, hip hop used to, in its own way, be one of the most honest forms of musical expression the world has ever heard,and T.R.O.Y. is honest, raw and true. Go listen to it and you’ll know exactly what I mean.

People are always saying that “T.R.O.Y.” isn’t about a girl, it’s about hip hop. I’ve listened to this song countless times and I’ve never heard it. Common’s “I Used to Love H.E.R.” is obviously about hip hop, as are a scores of other odes to hip hop masquerading as love songs. Sometimes I wish rappers would man up and ...READ MORE

Also from the May 1 issue of Democracy Now

A sweet picture of Fighting Bob that has no relevance to this post but is too good not be used

Waterboarding is the most cruel, the most extremely cruel form of torture known to man, very simply because of this—and people don’t understand, I think, waterboarding. Amy, if you and I were riding in a car, and we went off a bridge in January here in Wisconsin and crashed through the ice and went down to the bottom of the Ohio River, within three minutes ...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.

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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
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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。

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