Ben Affleck – When is TMZ TMI?
Fighting for a Presidential fortune… (courtesy, Wikicommons) Actor Ben Affleck, recently the subject of the PBS Series Searching For Your Roots, a direct copy, by the way of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are, found out that his...
Read moreMusings on The End of Empire
He has seen it all come and go… This morning’s New York Times carried a headline that should have been in much bigger type.It should have read, the end of America as we knew her. All empires come and...
Read moreThe News From China
Time to start the coverage….. The summer deluge of coverage of the Beijing Olympics is scheduled to start soon, and the networks are poised to spend tens of millions, if not more, on getting the China story into our...
Read moreTHE CUL-DE-SAC OF CULTURE
Although we like to credit Gutenberg with the printing press, the concept of movable type actually originated here, in China. During the Ch’ing-li period (1041-1048), an alchemist named Pi Sheng conceived of the notion of movable carved blocks for...
Read moreNOTHING HAS CHANGED
Despite the tall glass towers and Armani Casa shops that line the main streets of Shanghai, there is a great deal of Communist China that has remained untouched. The first thing that remains untouched, apparently, is the censorship. While...
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