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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech last week about China and free speech has not been warmly received by the Chinese government. According to Min Dahong, the Chairman of the Beijing Association of Online Media, Clinton’s insinuation that “China lacks freedom of information and speech is in fact disrespectful and doesn’t stand up.”
Meanwhile, China [...]
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I never cease to be amazed by the extent to which the Internet can answer questions we never even think to ask. For example, I can honestly say I never gave any thought to what would become of my email accounts or my Facebook page after I kicked the bucket. How, without my password, would [...]
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Fox News commentator Brit Hume is of the opinion that the extent to which Tiger Woods can recover from the recent scandal depends on his willingness to embrace Christianity instead of Buddhism – a faith which (half Asian) Woods inherited from his mother – because according to Hume, Buddhism “does not offer the kind of [...]
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Bromance is one of those relatively new, made-up mash-up words that I just cannot get on board with. For the uninitiated, the term implies a close but non-sexual relationship/friendship between two or more men. The term has become particularly popular in Hollywood, where movies like I Love You, Man have become a mainstay of brainless [...]
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At least the Taliban and I can agree on something.
During their regime in Afghanistan, the Taliban banned the popular Central Asian sport, Buzkashi. This, uh, sport consists of horseback men riding around and trying to drag a dead calf into a ring in the sand.
If you find this objectionable for some odd reason, don’t worry [...]
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Patrick Phillips wrote in his blog about a California man who has proposed a ban on divorce. In his post, and in the comments, he talked about the same-sex marriage debate, and “civil unions.”
I wrote the following in response to his post, and I am copying it here because I’ve often written in my [...]
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Here we go again.
In a Massachusetts school, Fifth grade students of a science class were shown slides of human organs, such a spleen, a kidney, and somesuch things. The guest speaker was a pathologist assistant, so the kiddies were given an excellent opportunity to ask questions and learn stuff from a real person of science.
So [...]
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It’s not very often that a website makes me feel uncomfortable and chills me to the bone.
A Danish website called “Hit The Bitch,” intended as a public service announcement for Danish citizens, had that very effect on me. On this website, the visitor is faced with a Danish-speaking young woman, whom the visitor can hit [...]
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Last week was not a good one for civil rights.
A city law being hatched in Washington, D.C. that would make it illegal for religious organizations to discriminate against homosexual individuals – with the exception of having to marry them or support their ceremonies – has gotten a cold response from the Catholic Archdiocese of [...]
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Mika Salakka is a Finn living in the United States. He is a nursing assistant, a creative writer, a devoted husband, and an observer of the human condition. His interests range from music and literature to psychology, sociology, medicine, technology, and spirituality.
Was It Something I Said?
February 13, 2010
in Commentary
Blog bloggety blog.
I’m sure there are few things more boring than reading a blogger write about blogging (unless you’re a blogger yourself), but here goes anyway.
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that a blogger whose blog I like to blog – err, read – had added me to his blogroll. A blogroll is, as [...]
Tagged as: blogging, Internet, Society, Writing
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