More  Great Moments in Ivy League Campus Life.Harvard students are irate because they can't get their favorite cereals in the dining halls any more.  Cries of culinary tyranny are echoing across the quads.  Hm, should I expect protests?  Have a l

I'll be away for the next few days to go Nerdmootin'.  Yes, time for another Nerdmoot -- another academic conference.  I'm giving a big fat nerd paper on literary criticism, blah blah blah.  Lots of nerdy yakkety-yak, though it looks all shiny and

Easter was cold and overcast.Yesterday was cold, windy, and wet -- horribly raining all day long from morning 'til night.This morning was cold, gray, and drizzly.But when I finally escaped campus in the afternoon, there was . . .. sunshine, blue skie

Easter wouldn't be Easter without marshmallow Peeps, admittedly.And since I've a dear friend who dearly loves Peeps (you know who you are!), I've concocted a Salute to Peeps for her -- and for everyone else too.  May I present the following for your

Beyond all the marshmallow Peeps, chocolate bunnies, and Cadbury caramel eggs, it's time for sunrise services and a pause to reflect on a Sunday morning long ago.  Check out the lovely LaShawn's post for today too: "He is Not Here; He is Risen!

I posted up some pix under "Scenic Taiwan" a couple days ago, so now for your continuing amusement, I give you . . . Quirky Taiwan!Satan Coffee has invaded Taiwan!But a latte is still called a latte. Seeing the usual menu in Chinese charact

You read that right, gentle reader!Here is the amazing headline from the Financial Times: "Iraq's Insurgents Seek 'Exit Strategy.'"Many of Iraq's predominantly Sunni Arab insurgents would lay down their arms and join the political process i

Here's a writeup from the Scotsman.The organization must have been quite a job:Tens of thousands assembled at 10 different areas in Taipei, with each route representing one of the articles of the anti-secession law. The marchers converged on the wide

More "superior" French international finesse here.Japan is not happy with France's continuing cheerleading to sell European arms to Beijing.Check out this headline: "France, don't mess up Asia: Japan."Japan, on the eve of a visit

The Kremlin-on-the-Charles fails to brainwash all its undergrads. 3 of them have come out and written a very interesting piece in the campus paper.Check out today's student-written op-ed in the Harvard Crimson: "Terri Schiavo: Guilty of Nothing

The Ivory Tower is most definitely NOT dull . . . Prof smackdown: Victor Davis Hanson takes on Ward Churchill.  My money's on Hanson.Berkeley goes for Churchill.

Blog humorist JJCJ has a funny take on the goings-on in Kyrgyzstan.Check it out!While we're on the subject, the opposition seems to be making gains -- the beleaguered President Askar Akayev has now fled the country.  Recall too that last Thrusday, K

Fellow Taiwan blogger Bruce Chang over at Naruwan Formosa has just posted a list of planned rallies in support of Taiwan that are scheduled for tomorrow.The truly big demonstration will be in Taiwan itself with 1 million people expected in Taipei, bu

Fun photos from the little leaf-shaped island!  Things have been so serious and depressing in the world at large that I think we all need a little escapism -- and what better than a few vacation photos?  Besides, I need a break from news-blogging a

Civilians take on insurgents terrorists -- and win.I don't think it was as much vigilante justice as it was a case of self-defense. Read the report from the NY Times.Who says the Iraqis can't or won't defend their own country?More here.

Well, a bit of good news -- the EU is rethinking its plan to end that arms embargo to China.I should hope so, after that anti-secession law about using "non-peaceful means" against Taiwan. Come on now, people.  Here's the story:Lifting the

Pretty darn funny, actually.From the op-ed of the Wall Street Journal a couple days back comes this tale; a Philly columnist is apparently semi-phobic about evangelical Christians.  (Scroll down to "Eek!  A Christian!") Now this is a mor

By Eric Allie, from the Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index:

Monday morning + jet lag + vacation exhaustion = BIG-TIME COFFEE EMERGENCY.But at least I found solid photographic evidence that a good latte is an art form.  An art form, darn it!(Don't believe me?  Check out the foam on this mocha, baby.)

Quite a story that I missed when it came out a couple days ago.  But here it is anyway, because it's too good not to post:For his 50th birthday, a wealthy German placed a full-page ad in a left-leaning newspaper thanking America for 50 years of free

Well, I did promise some pix as a follow-up to an informal round-up of responses to Beijing's latest move, so here they are:That's Lai Shin-yuan of the Taiwan Solidarity Union, speaking in front of a protest in Taipei on March 14, the day Beijing pas

Good to hear some voices of sense in Deutschland:Opposition parties in Germany are hoping to split Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's coalition in a bid to maintain an arms embargo against China, a highly sensitive issue on both sides of the Atlantic, ac

Mass pro-democracy protests seem to be all the rage nowadays, gentle reader, from Ukraine to Lebanon.  Could it be that despite all the ballyhooing from the far Left, real actual people want freedom and democracy?  Go figure!I just stumbled across

While I was in Taiwan, China passed its anti-secession law. It was splashed all over the Taiwanese newspapers and news channels, and plenty of locals were talking about it -- everyone from my relatives to many a Taipei cabbie.  The recurring themes

I'm back in the good old US of A.   However much I like roaming the wide world, there's nothing quite like coming back home and seeing signs that read "Welcome to the United States of America."   Greatest country in the world.More blog