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Although Imagethief is not particularly religious, he is by descent a card carrying member of The Chosen People. He was therefore highly amused by the two following videos: Jon Stewart, in one of his all-time great rants, on congress breaking for Rosh Hashana this week, at the height of the economic crisis (note -- readers in China will need a ...

Anyone within earshot will know that Imagethief welcomed his son, Zachary, into the world last March 9th. The nearly four months since have been one long sleepless adventure. Despite my fatigue induced delirium, however, the experience has been a happy one. Like parents everywhere I take the most profound pleasure in things that non-parents ...

I am ringing in 2008 by being officially too lazy to write anything original. But here are a few interesting stories from the past few days that are worth a read: And I thought Aussies were relaxedControversy in Australia, which has announced the implementation of a previously announced measure to censor pornography on the Internet at a ...

So the World Cup is over. Italy won the low-scoring, tied, all-European finale in a penalty shootout. They managed this after needling the golden boy of French football into a self-destructive, pre-retirement implosion guaranteed to ensure that, despite a breathtaking career, he is destined to be remembered as a first degree ...

Imagethief was not entirely surprised to read the following this morning in the Straits Times online:Singaporeans the least happy people in Asia        LONDON - OF ALL the countries in the Asean region, Vietnam has the most to smile about and Singapore the least, according to a list of the happiest countries on the ...

After a busy week (and a nasty Friday flu) I had a chance to catch up on news and blogs. Some interesting stories from today and the past couple of days. Most are China related, a couple are not. All are interesting.Niger Delta in flames  An awful place gets worse, just as both the US and China are seeing it as one of the keys to future ...

Yesterday Imagethief had lunch with four of his Chinese colleagues. In deference to one woman, who was a little self-conscious about her English skills, much of the conversation was held in Mandarin. This will show you where I sit on the sympathy ladder, since I am a little self-conscious about my Mandarin skills. In the course of ...

That was the year that was. And I suppose that this is the year that will be. Until we reach 2007, in which case it will become the year that has been. Speaking of has-been (and how's that for circular), I wanted to take advantage of the new-year to link back to a few favorite posts and to recap the statistics for the site. In eighteen ...

The Washington Post reported this weekend that escaped Asian “snakehead” fish are running wild in a Virginia tributary of the Potomac River. The hardy fish, which first started appearing in the American wild in Maryland a couple of years ago, have, naturally, resisted all of man’s puny efforts to eradicate them. Now, transported into a novel ...

Because they suck. Let me elaborate. Over the past decade living in Asia, I had formulated a simple policy: never fly a US air carrier anywhere that an Asian carrier will take me. Over the years, this policy has served me well, as I used airlines such as Singapore Air, Cathay Pacific, EVA, Thai and even, god help me, Garuda. My ...