February 2012
16 posts
Kickstarter Expects to Provide More Funding Than... →
discoverynews:
wow. social media ftw
I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy about humans, but depressed about America’s political climate and our low view of the arts, as a state/people.
File Under: The kind of Catholicism I can get... →
h/t James Matichuk, for this article. But h/t Lizzy Carley, for my previous awareness of Fr. Greg Boyle.
WatchGuys, this is my very talented and very lovely friend Ahna, and she is making an album for her Integrative Project in the Arts and Theology program, at Regent. Check it, and help her out, if you are so inclined!
(via Help Ahna Phillips Make a CD! by Ahna Phillips — Kickstarter)
Scandal May End Rise of Bo Xilai, Party Official... →
This is an important story that you are probably not following. At issue are the power plays going on as the new standing committee is formed, and the different “models” represented by the players involved. Bo Xilai is the star and major proponent of the “Chongqing model,” which seeks a return to more traditional communist policies. This obviously comes up against the...
“Mr. Xi acknowledged the broad list of economic concerns he had heard throughout...”
– China’s Vice President, Xi Jinping, Opens U.S. Tour - NYTimes.com
Very ballsy, Mr. Xi
“Mr. Biden spoke in blunt terms when he delivered a speech at the start of the...”
– China’s Vice President, Xi Jinping, Opens U.S. Tour - NYTimes.com
There is some comment/joke/column to be constructed, here, over the fact that Xi Jinping and Obama and Biden hung out on Valentine’s Day. It kind of reminds me of this video.
“Regent Bookstore is a culture, not just a bookstore, and may well be the best...”
– Jesus Creed » Regent College
Scot McKnight praises my school’s bookstore—deservedly so!
“But we should be careful about what we wish for. For all of the West’s contempt...”
– Is China Ripe for a Revolution? - NYTimes.com
I think this guy is very prescient and insightful, though his conclusions are a bit alarming.
So excited for his new book on the Taiping Rebellion!
“I make no apologies for the apparent subject matter,” Mr. Hockney wrote, of...”
– Dog Art at Metropolitan Museum and Morgan Library - NYTimes.com
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
“Certainly, some guys are still threatened by a woman’s achievements. But scaring...”
– Marriage Suits Educated Women - NYTimes.com
“Is this really the fate facing educated heterosexual women: either no marriage...”
– Marriage Suits Educated Women - NYTimes.com
love this (despite being divorced/single)!
“An Asian-American Christian? What’s that?
Many in this country have probably...”
– The Knicks’ Jeremy Lin — Faith, Pride and Points - NYTimes.com
“Murray’s story contradicts the ideologies of both parties. Republicans claim...”
– The Great Divorce - NYTimes.com
January 2012
22 posts
“The mass movement that had begun to sweep across the country quickly subsided...”
– Yu Hua, “People,” China in Ten Words.*
I realize, of course, that what happened in Tiananmen is incredibly complex and layered, but I still cannot read about it without choking up a bit—and this is from a girl (woman) (me) who has done a fair amount of reading on the subject. I...
“Clearly, the winds are changing. When you cannot find safe milk for your child...”
– Three trends on China’s internet in 2011 - China Media Project
Really helpful essay. Hu Yong sees declining (virulent) nationalism on the Chinese internets, which is a good sign.
Tibetans Fired Upon in Protest in China -... →
not good.
M. Taylor Fravel | International Security, China,... →
Great new-ish China IR/policy site. Check it, if you are into the aforementioned scene. The author is a prof at MIT.
(h/t Bill Bishop)
“Until then, priests’ wives should beware a religious tradition that views them,...”
– For Priests’ Wives, a Word of Caution - NYTimes.com
bahahahaha.
“How does a guy spend a year in New Hampshire and not connect with the Granite...”
– Jon Stewart
Hu Jia warned of renewed detention (Reuters) →
“As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week’s Consumer...”
– Foxconn is Still a Hard Place to Work (The Atlantic Wire)
Sickening.
“The ‘culture war’ is not truly meant to be waged against nefarious...”
– Beijing’s ‘Culture War’ Isn’t About the U.S.—It’s About China’s Future - Damien Ma - International - The Atlantic
Excellent analysis.
The next time I interview for a job, I'm going to...
Interviewer: What interests you about our company?
Me: I hate it and think it should be dismantled.
Interviewer: What are your primary qualifications for the job?
Me: I would systematically destroy your company.
Interviewer: Why do you want to destroy our company?
Me: Your company has a successful and diverse market line and a global presence. But when it was incorporated, the founders had envisioned a little mom and pop operation. I think we need to return to their vision.
In which a friend describes the dating video he...
“I have an idea, how about i make a SWEET personal dating video for you and put it on the interwebs for prime attraction.
The video will include:
You
Bodie [my dog]
Min [the author of the email’s cat]
Me as Anna lobbyist
The song, ‘cat daddy’
The song, ‘hot for teacher’
Several penis illustrations
China
Obama
The phrase, ‘I’ll try anything...
Why Teach For America Is Not Welcome In My... →
zincfingers:
palatial-bear-messages:
Every spring, without fail, a Teach for America recruiter approaches me and asks if they can come to my classes and recruit students for TFA, and every year, without fail, I give them the same answer.
“Sorry.”
Until Teach for America becomes committed to training lifetime educators and raises the length of service to five years rather than two, I will...
“This is important, because while reproductive rights are always cast in terms of...”
– Rick Santorum is coming for your birth control - Salon.com
h/t soupsoup
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“Mr. Cantor is a fan of the rap artist Jay-Z.”
– Cantor Defends House G.O.P. Stance on Tax Increases - NYTimes.com
just btw.
Missing Dissident Chinese Lawyer Said to Be in... →
On the one hand, this is good news, in that he is alive. On the other hand, rule of law is being manipulated to serve whatever purposes the CCP wants it to (see: falsified charges against AWW and Gao)—which is why the “weiquan”/”rights’ lawyers” project is likely doomed under the current regime.
December 2011
82 posts
“(For the record, World Peace will cost you $49.99 at the N.B.A.’s online store.)”
– For Lakers’ Metta World Peace, a New Name and Outlook - NYTimes.com
I am kind of obsessed with Ron Artest’s name change (and whole person, really).
“Wireless Internet service was available [to journalists reporting on the Wukan...”
– Amazingly savvy “PR work” by the villagers: they utilized foreign and Hong Kong journalists to get their story out, framing and shaping it themselves, instead of letting their movement be defined from without. Also, Wong makes clear that much credit goes to Malcom Moore, of the...
Gingrich campaign to launch "Pets with Newt" →
dcdecoder:
From ABC News:
The campaign said today that it will soon launch a “Pets With Newt” site aimed at Gingrich’s love for animals, intended to show a “lighter side” of the candidate. “As speaker I made it possible for people in public housing to keep their pets in 1988. I love pets so we’re going to have an entire project,” Gingrich said….
The campaign also plans to release a music...
“Sentenced on the other crimes, he surely won’t go free / But we find he can’t be...”
– Judge J. Michael Eakin • Apparently, this Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice is known locally as the “rhyming judge” for — you guessed it — issuing judicial verdicts in verse. We love that people like this exist. (Correction: The initial post had the wrong state. Oops, sorry about that.) source...
“But Mr. Gingrich represents a new kind of Catholic, one very different from the...”
– Newt Gingrich Represents New Political Era for Catholics - NYTimes.com
This is another reason why the trendiness of Catholicism among evangelicals makes me nervous…not because I don’t have great respect and appreciation for many things about Catholicism, and think that there are many...
“Inside Wukan, in a council meeting hall, bags of rice were piled high in a...”
– Demonstrators Who Took Over Chinese Village Halt Protest - NYTimes.com
The last sentence highlights the success of the CCP’s strategy, over the last couple of decades: when it comes to corruption or unjust practices, it is the fault of the local government, not the system or of Beijing. The...
