Three posters in shop windows in a mall in Hong Kong. Getting white is a big business in Hong Kong, and products abound to get that bleached look. Laneige is…
James A. Clapp
Be afraid! Be Really Afraid! Again! Here we go again, folks. The Bush Administration wants you to be so afraid you’ll be so busy changing your underwear you won’t even…
Nothing owes its preciousness to rarity more than Truth.* When I watched Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of the late Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, endorsing Barak Obama at the Democratic National…
Ever wonder where does all that wealth goes when the hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions just “go away”? Well the big boys at Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Bothers and…
The Great Hair-Sprayed Dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-il did not show up at some the usual festivities that are held there ( some marching military drone show that he…
Every four years my mind resets the same questions: Are most American people incredibly stupid? And, does the American political system ensure that its people will ultimately make the choices…
When Hillary Clinton’s ad people came up with the now infamous “3AM Phone Call” to suggest that Barrak Obama would not be ready because if : “inexperience” to take a…
Historic as the nomination of Barrak Obama as the first African-American presidential nominee by a major political party might be, in a number of respects this election and its primaries…
“The new appointee was known to have behaved disgracefully with pupils since 1629, some fifteen years earlier. He repeatedly betrayed the trust laid on him as a priest and a…
China has a 5000 year history; only its Olympic Opening Ceremonies seemed longer. It seemed like a remake of “Flying Torches, Hidden Protestors.” But then, they have waited a long…