Far East

Moving On Up

            Taking to different digs, at least in the short term. Over and Out.

Scamoriffic

           Wow.  50% polled support impeachment, according to Ipsos.  Whoda thunk it?  And that number has nowhere to go but up.  Maybe after impeachment CNN will report that it happened.  One can dream.

Buying A Clue

            Divorced from the reality based community.  Stockholm Syndrome.  Enabling.  Or, as Woody Allen once said: 'Sex without love is an empty experience.  But, as far as empty experiences go, it's one of the best'.
(Crossing fingers that typepad will post this. Grrr.)

Buying A Clue

      Opting out of the reality-based community.  Stockholm Syndrome.  Enabling.  Reading way too much between the lines, but not the lines themselves.  Or, as Woody Allen said: "Sex without love is an empty experience.  But, as far as empty experiences go, it's one of the best". 

Sparrowgeddon

            Don't know if Taiwan will fare better in the coming Avian flu epidemic (I'd like to think so, esp. in light of how they handled SARS), but it looks like it's going to be really bad.  Like Black Plague bad.  At least there are no huge caches of handguns and other firearms here; I'd hate to be in Florida when this hits.  While using the military may be a good idea in the US, it seems a bit short-sighted as soldiers are in the prime risk age group to get hit, and may only serve as a further spread vector.  Hard to know what to think.

Wunderbar

            Fantastic.  Just got an email from some company saying that someone had tried to access their site via my IP address;  I thought WTF! and went over to my ISP's homepage, where I learned that someone has been hacking their database!  They had a written advisory to immediately change my password (which I did); seems using a Mac is only so safe, depending on whether or not it's connected to secure computers/competent ISP engineers.  Absolutely wunderbar.

TGFI

            Thank gob for the internets.  Otherwise I wouldn't know about the terra attacks (to come, according to CNN) on the NYC subway system.  Oh wait, that's not the internets.  That's the media.  The ones that haven't told me about the indictments of the most powerful congressional leader--something that might be considered newsworthy.  Never mind.

Rule Of Law 90, Torture 9

            Reading an AP article that described this vote as a "setback for the White House".  WTF?  Making torture illegal (again) is something not in the WH's interests?  Good to see the Senate show some spine.  At last.

Longwang

            Ok, no jokes.  Yes, that's really the name.  And naturally it's a super-typhoon.