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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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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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

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

1. quiet griot: mumbled musing I listen to a lot of excellent podcasts and...

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’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

1. Total eclipse of the smart? Why the left wing can’t get off the ground UPDATE – JAN 26: I wrote this a week ago...

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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1. Total eclipse of the smart? Why the left wing can’t get off the ground UPDATE – JAN 26: I wrote this a week ago...

George W Bush
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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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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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1. 双鱼 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....