The Laowai Psychological Street Fight

Aug
28
07

I’ve always been a lousy liar. Remembering whom I’ve told what to is difficult for me when it’s the truth, but add in the complexity of deceit, well… forget it.
About five years ago my buddies and I started up a weekly Texas Hold’em game, and this taught me the “bluff”. Now here was a lie [...]

Chávez’s War On “Democracy”

Aug
23
07

Big tip of the hat to my friend Tom for suggesting I give War On Democracy a watch. The fantastic film by award winner John Pilger aptly displays the American government’s involvement in manipulating Latin America’s leadership over the past 60 years or so.
Nearly half of the film is spent exploring the topic of Venezuela [...]

The Humanaught v3 Has Arrived

Aug
17
07

My eyes are cooked, my ass is numb, my fingers are cramped… the redesign is done!
For anyone not reading this in their RSS feed reader or on a splog, the changes should be pretty apparent. But I’m going to run through some of them anyway
First, I should mention, I’m not a big fan [...]

The Humanaught v3 - Coming Soon

Aug
14
07

Just a quick note to apologize for being so craptastic about frequent updates lately. I’ve been bogged down with work for clients (yeah, I’ve got “clients” now, I’m cool like that).
I’ve also been fiercely working on a new design for this site. Should be up by end of the day today. Bear with me if [...]

Am I A Racist?

Aug
10
07

I’ve been pondering this question a bit lately. First I/this blog got called such in the comments on Time’s rather prominent The China Blog.
Then, lately I’ve had a bit of a dimwit spamming my comments with this drivel.
I got three separate notifications of his comments being posted. Each notification gave the text of the comment, [...]