Park Geun-hye has no right to talk about the children of North Korea. The KCNA news agency carried what it said were comments by a private citizen criticizing Park’s offer last week to help the impoverished North’s women and children as “foul-smelling vituperation uttered by human[...]
Archive for April 5th, 2014
North Korea: Calls President of South Korea a “repulsive wench.”
How Come we do not tax podment developers for transit?
A recent exchange of posts at the UW AAUP listserv illustrates the political castration of the University. To be honest, I intend to vote for prop one with a large clothespin applied to my nose. One participant, excited by something he read in the Seattle Times, posted his enthusiasm for proposition[...]
UKRAINE: The Crack In The Slavic Egg
John Lloyd: “Russia, with faltering growth, a demographic crisis and no modernization in sight, is a year or two away from the economic fever ward.” John Lloyd at Reuters writes about the threats of a Slav crash involving not only Ukraine but Russia, with more than 140 million peop[...]
Clue To Lost Jet? Or Chinese BS?
Update: Yeah, “noise” is the right description Frankly, to a non-expert like me, the Chinese equipment doesn’t look like much more than a tin can on a string. And they had a spare pinger in their inflatable boat, which would start pinging if it got wet, and what doesn&[...]