According to this article at CNN, during trade negotiations with the United States in 1973, Mao Zedong offered Henry Kissinger 10 million Chinese women, saying that “We have too many women…They give birth to children and our children are too many”.
I’m not sure what Mao wanted in exchange, but to me it certainly sounds like […]

Excuse me while I digress into a rant about this hurricane Katrina nonsense.
I am most definitely not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but I think I have a reasonably understanding of something called “criminal negligence”. I think this basically means when your inaction was so negligent, that it is conceptually the […]

The linked story discusses Manlin Chee, a Chinese-American immigration attorney. In a nutshell, she was put in jail for a year because the FBI set her up and she filed some papers for them that she shouldn’t have. The more interesting bit of the timeline is that the FBI’s “sting” came after she had participated […]

According to the LA Times, the Supreme Court has ruled that Federal agents may in fact arrest and bring charges against people who violate Federal drug laws, even if they are complying with the medical marijuana laws which have been passed in nine states.
People who know me won’t be surprised to learn that I am […]

Well, I’ve just started reading this book called The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin. (Side note: where are the editors when it comes to book titles these days…sheesh.)
Anyway, I am only three chapters in, but I understand the gist […]

While our troops are fighting in Iraq — and getting all the press — you might want to start reading pages 5-20 of your newspaper, lest you will miss what the Bush administration is up to while they have you captivated with their sanitized war. Their bullshit budget is one example, but it at […]

You know, I grew up in the United States, and, I guess because it was the latest major killing spree, they drilled Nazi and World War II stuff into our heads incessantly when I was in school. At times, we joked that they should have just renamed history class “Hitler Class”.
These studies would inevitably […]

…and unfortunately we live in a country full of it. The ‘coming together’ because we were all attacked is fading, and reality is beginning to sink in.
And the reality is, New York City still has a fascist mayor and the country still has an idiotic/evil executive branch of the government.
To support this:
(1) Saudi prince […]

OK, the title might be a little harsh, but ever since the Holocaust happened, it’s been pretty much true. (See, I feel I even have to say that in order to cover my ass.)
They’ve become an untouchable ethnic group - considered above reproach - simply because there was a highly public, disgusting perpetration of […]

It seems Microsoft has resorted to pathetic tactics to try to win favor with the Attorneys General in the states where they are contesting their monopoly status, as this Newsfactor story details.
It’s amazing to me that a company whose products have touched so many people could be as universally reviled as they are. About […]