• Originally posted on iLook China: There would not be many choices for someone that wanted to move to a socialist country. There are only four in the world: PRC (mainland China), Republic of Cuba, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. These countries once had Communist governments but that isn’t entirely true anymore. However, there are 189…

  • Malarkey for the third Presidential Debate of 2012

    Unemployment in the United States is 12.1 million—not the 23 million Romney keeps claiming.

  • Growing up with Oranges

    My child mind thought: okay, then I’ll knock oranges off the tree to the ground, pick them up and eat them, and I was never caught.

  • The Malarkey Score for the 2nd Presidential Debate

    Who won the MALARKEY Contest for the Second Presidential Debate?

  • Sexiest Woman Alive – Really?

    I often see women that beat Mila Kunis as the sexiest woman alive.

  • Malarkey

    What it is that Ryan said during the only vice-presidential debate that was malarkey?

  • Originally posted on iLook China: A Guest Post by Richard Burger of The Peking Duck One of the questions I hear the most is whether the Chinese people’s attitude toward sex is conservative or open-minded. And the answer is that it’s complicated. First, there is more than one China: there’s rich China and poor China, urban and rural China, young China and…

  • I love hiking. My biggest challenges (for hiking) have been the week long hikes in the High Sierras (including the back country of Yosemite) sometimes reaching higher than 11,000 feet near the John Muir Trail. Heavy backpacks weighing as much as sixty pounds are a burden when climbing for miles with thousands of feet of elevation gain but when the…

  • Two days after the first 2012 Presidential Debate

    Two days after the debate, a report says the jobless rate dropped to 7.8%, the lowest since 2009. This matches the rate when Obama took office. The number of unemployed in America is now 12.1 million. “An overall better-than-expected jobs report, consistent with most recent data that suggest the economy is gaining some momentum,” said Sal Guatieri, an economist at…

  • First 2012 Presidential Debate

    Fact check.org said, “Romney came off as a serial exaggerator”.