Listen to: The Persian Gulf Crisis interview with Dan Schorr Dan Schorr’s distinguished journalistic career spanned over six decades, right up until his death last week at the age of…
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by Ba Feng-ku, Asia Correspondent, Dragon City Journal Hong Kong, April 14, 2010. An American professor visiting Hong Kong heard the plaintive cries of French chicken while passing a market…
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other [Chinese Proverb] I am not a superstitious…
I have looked at the old photograph many times over the years, always focusing in on my father’s older brother, Pat, the one holding the violin case in this picture…
I don’t know how you feel about paying some yahoo ex special ops, or Navy SEAL dude, or left over trained killer from Belgium or South Africa, and other Blackwater…
In Roman times the legions used to bring along with them a soothsayer who would sacrifice some unlucky chicken or other animal and “read” the auspices in their entrails to…
For the past couple of years my local public radio station has adopted a new fundraising mantra—asking me to donate my car to the station in return for a “possible…
Barack Obama on 60 Minutes told us that he wants to fix the country, that he will take actions to do so and, if it they don’t work, he will find policies…
To other readers. One of my “resolutions for 2009 is to complete a book dedicated to my five grandchildren. It’s tentatively titled THE BABO GOSPELS (“Babo” is the sobriquet my…
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…