Kurt Groetsch @ OldTasty.com

From Beijing Weekend, a China Daily publication comes this article about a 32-year-old American who’s moved to Beijing “to pursue his communist ideals.” You really have to read the article in its entirety to understand his complete naivete, but here are some of the more amusing quotes:
In search of Utopia
“I came here to know how […]

A couple of loose ends I want to get out of the way this morning. First of all, I made a trip to Panjiayuan flea market a couple of weeks ago and discovered an entire area that I’d never seen before. Up until this visit, I’d only really explored the covered stalls in the main […]

I don’t talk politics here, and I don’t want to make a habit of it, but I really enjoyed this graph from Paul Krugman’s editorial column in today’s NYTimes:
“By my count, this year’s budget contains 27 glossy photos of Mr. Bush. We see the president in front of a giant American flag, in front of […]

I’ve solved my card reader problem by borrowing Stacy’s (thanks) and will work on posting a Wuhan photo gallery over the weekend.

Update: The gallery’s finished, and it’s massive — 77 photos covering five days in Wuhan over Spring Festival.

During the live Chinese broadcast of the Super Bowl, just before the halftime show, the video feed they were using ran a voting advocacy spot that included a clip of the Tiananmen “tank man” from 1989. You can imagine what a shock it was to see this image on Chinese television, given the government’s continuing […]