Balancing Frogs

I saw a bumper sticker today that said: TWO DISASTERS KATRINA AND BALDACCI I assume Katrina refers to the hurricane. Baldacci is our Govern...

For trip details and photos written by me, see Bundaegi . For trip details and photos by Jenna, see LaoRenCha .

On Saturday we leave on our jaunt from Taipei to Singapore to India (Karnataka and Kerala) to Egypt (Cairo and Luxor) to the USA and back to...

Slate's Explainer column has dug through the bag of questions they never answered in 2008 . Good fun. Is it just me, or do all nationa...

I used to live in Washington DC, land of license plates that proclaim "TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION". Washington DC is a city ...

P. J. O'Rourke's got a retrospective up on how the conservative movement in America screwed up, crashed, and burned. I disagree with...

From the Taipei Times : A Chinese woman who immigrated to Taiwan through marriage earlier this week got into a dispute with a clerk at a co...

The other day I bought Seven Contemporary Short Novels , a collection of seven well-known mid-twentieth-century American novellas, at a loca...

Fascinating little headline I just saw: 'Idol' Star Clay Aiken to Reveal He Is Gay Now, I'm pretty indifferent to Clay Aiken. A...

I've been a fan of The Comics Curmudgeon for some time, but I've been feeling lately that it's just not enough to satisfy my n...

Thanks to the Internet, every day people who follow American politics get to read such eloquence as this: It's pretty funny that how bad...

She Stole His Spleen, Then His Heart is an absolutely wonderful headline which could even be adapted as a Lyttle Lytton contest entry. But...