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Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" and the Buddhist concept of Hell
The Mandarin is a bit of an awards show junkie, so he was curled up in front of the TV last night watching the Golden Globe awards. (His excuse was that it was business related, since the Mandarin’s...
View ArticleOh, lovely. China can shoot down satellites now.
The newspapers are reporting that China shot down one of its old weather satellites last week with a ground-launched missile, something only the US and the former Soviet Union had managed to do until...
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Why is this man smiling?
I get the feeling he knows something we don't know. Jeez, I hope the word "Iran" isn't in there anywhere....BizarroCondi Rice: Bizarro President! The situation in Iraq is hopeless!Bizarro Shrub:...
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Cluster****
If you thought the unexpurgated title was "clusterbomb," give yourself a point.It turns out that a significant part of those Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions (a/k/a cluster****s) the...
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Religious freedom in China and the Falungong body snatcher
Well, not the whole body,... The headline reads, “Chinese army harvesting parts from Falungong inmates.” The article begins, “China's military is reportedly harvesting organs from prison inmates,...
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Curious George goes to Peoria
For a little change of pace from the depressing Falungong Organ Snatcher, here is the latest in the Mandarin's long-running collection of "Curious George" shots.Well, Mouseketeers, did he play in...
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Nixon in China: Nobody said it had to make sense....
This week, at least on NPR, is the 35th anniversary of Nixon's famous 1972 trip to China. That year, the Mandarin was in his second year of the PhD program in Chinese at Indiana University, having...
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Cheney finally hears a shot fired in anger
Vice President Cheney managed to avoid military service back in the 60s when many of us could not swing five consecutive student deferments. As he put it on April 5, 1989: "I had other priorities in...
View ArticleCheney chooses outpatient treatment for his clot
rather than check into Walter Reed, as he always used to do when he had these little health issues, like heart attacks, etc.And the Mandarin has been down with some kind of pesky flu-bug for a week,...
View ArticleHarvesting organs from prisoners moves closer to home
As an update to the Mandarin's recent post on the Chinese government's practice of harvesting organs for transplant from prisoners, especially those imprisoned for merely practicing their religion,...
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: "I shot Buckwheat"
As part of his recent rambling confession to almost every real or imagined terrorist plot, attack, or pipe-dream of the last dozen years, Khalid SheikhMohammed (affectionately known as "KSM" to his CIA...
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Daddy's little girl
Here's one kinky lifestyle innovation for which the Mandarin and his fellow boomers can't claim credit: purity balls.No sex please, we're daddy's little girlsIt has all the ingredients of a wedding....
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Calm down, little Shrub, or Mommy spank!
Shrub seems a little nervous, even though Speaker Pelosi had told him earlier that day to "Calm down with the threats, there's a new Congress in town."Anyone know where the Mandarin can get a "Nancy...
View ArticleName, rank, serial number and date of birth
Not to be mean to our gallant British allies or anything , but the Mandarin was stuck in a time warp during the recent captivity of the "heroic" British sailors and marines in Iraq. The time warp was a...
View ArticleWell, it had to happen: the Mandarin is banned in China
Yesterday, the Mandarin was browsing some of the other blogs in a grass-roots group called "Out of Iraq Blogroll." Scroll down a bit and you'll see the list on the right-hand side of this page.One of...
View ArticleCounting Bodies
The story of the 32 people shot today at Virginia will unfold in its full horror over the next few days. There will be inevitable comparisons to Charles Whitman, who killed 15 people on August 1, 1966,...
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Alberto's "Eagleton Moment"
Yesterday, after a performance in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee described by one anonymous White House insider as "like clubbing baby seals," attorney General Alberto Gonzales had his...
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China's domestic car makers - heading the wrong way?
Here's another in the Mandarin's continuing series of letters to the editors of the Wall Street Journal that they won't print:The Mandarin couldn't help laughing when he saw the articles in the March...
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Curious George misses the point
The Mandarin is continually amazed at the absolutely intractable density of our Decider-in-Chief. Especially his tantrum today:I strongly reject the artificial timetable for withdrawal and/or...
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