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Assorted links to things I don’t want to bookmark but want to find again.
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11-07-09: How a game developer in China approaches the gaming market in China, and the stark differences compared to the Western market.
09-03-09: Regarding war and sexual torture.
09-02-09: Things we discuss about education.
08-09-09: I’ll die before the endgame. Terry Prachett, author of the Discworld series,and the consideration of assisted suicide. I should hope that while we know how to live, we also remember how to die.
08-01-09: Maybe I can learn to cook someday. For now, I am still only just a good reader. Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch.
07-28-09: In 2005, we already had this wonderful article by Philip Longman about veteran health care in the U.S.; four years later, here we are, in the middle of debate about health care reform. And the articles is quite relevant.
My Torturous Decision – nothing special in the huge mass of articles and opinions flowing out regarding torture. Just that watching Washington Journal on CSPAN early morning 05-06-2009, made me rather pissed about the abundance of stupidity populating the phonelines.
USASpending.gov – It’s always good to know where your money is going, though this applies only to Americans.
Sean Tevis, Kansas State Representative – Occasionally the people running for government are pretty snazzy too. A sense of humor is always a good qualification.
Every nation has its darkness, Japan not excepted. The problem is, why is the nation so xenophobic, and why is its society stagnant?
How to Not Use Your Chopsticks – learn to use chopsticks correctly, gaijin.
Two sides of a coin, America is. It’s interesting how many different views come about from one person’s actions.
Letters to Obama, from children; they are the future, hear what they have to say.
The simple reasoning for why liberals are liberals, without the Republican accusations of socialism. Because, really, if you study the ideals of socialism, liberals are not socialists.
Art is amazing, timeless, and always good at fooling around.
The big tent versus ideological purity. In a nation like the United States, how can one be big on ideas alone?
Conscience of an individual: less really about that, and more about how even “minding your own business” has to come in moderation. After all, government needs to participate somewhat in securing the welfare of people, but also must not stick its nose in others.
The Art of the Hissy Fit — I learn!
Yesterday I told my students I did not ever want to hear of them shouting down someone with whom they disagreed. That is the tactic of the Limbaughs of the world – unwilling to allow expression of opposing points of view, a willingness to demonize opponents, in an attempt to destroy not just an opposing ideology, but in practice the lives of those who would dare hold such viewpoints.
- teacherken, commentations
Perhaps to a normal foreigner, this whole thing looks a bit silly, but to me, there’s something undoubtedly majestic about Gundam that this statue embodies thoroughly.
Things we have yet to learn from history.
