Battlepanda

This is too good not to post. The economist who participated in the project is Russ Roberts of George Mason University. No prizes for guessi...

I just finished reading the New Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith . It's a book that manages to be dated and prescient at the s...

Yes, that is my voice you hear in Chinese over the animation. For the record, Conan, that animation is made in Taiwan, not Hong Kong! And th...

Life is a strange and wonderful journey, my friends. Who would have thought that I would get my new job thanks (probably) in part to Tiger W...

...or else.

As an NPR fan, this is just acutely disappointing to me. Ombudsman Alicia Shepard explains why NPR do not use the word 'torture' to...

I was listening to NPR the other day (actually, I'm just about always listening to NPR) when I heard a grisly but interesting story abo...

Send in ten receipts for merchandise that will help you act like a racist douchbag The latest Coca Cola ad campaign in Taiwan is just jaw-dr...

Ross Douthat wrote what I consider the best response to the latest mini-spate of books and articles bemoaning the death of romance as people...

I have started a Facebook group called " US expats for Healthcare Reform ". Something struck me when reading through the comment s...

Being in Taiwan and being distracted by other issues lately meant I've been out to lunch on US news and politics for a while. Thus when ...

I've noticed a strange phenomenon in Taiwanese music video...in a disturbingly high number of the videos for love ballads ends with the ...

It's often said that "smart women are unattractive." Now I know why. I recently came across Paul Graham's "Why Nerds ...

Inspired by Gene (my husband and an excellent digital artist), I bought a tablet for my computer the other day. Then I downloaded Gimp , w...

I woke up this morning with the worst craving for pound cake. Not just any pound cake. Anita Bryant's pound cake. "Anita Bryant?!?,...

If you climb over a two-meter barrier into a panda enclosure, because they're cute and you want to cuddle them, you deserve what you get...

Andrew Sabl at the RBC offers up a characterization of populism . But in fact, populism — wherever it has existed, though it's much stro...

(Thanks to freefoto.com for image, and BigHugeLabs for lolcat tool) I was for bailing out the banks, and despite the fact that there ar...

Four years ago around this time of year, I had flown down to Florida with MoveOn to get out the vote. Of course, I voted early before I left...

It used to be the conventional wisdom that "Republicans are better for the economy." Now the pendulum have swung the other way, bi...