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A friend from Beijing sent this link, describing it as “a hilarious waste of time.”
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/
I just glanced at it, but items #91, 45, 44, and 11 caught my attention.
Of course, the list goes backwards. 

Welsh photographer Philip Jones Griffiths has died.  Rest in Peace.
He documented the various facets of the war in Viet Nam.   ”I wanted to show the Vietnamese were people the Americans should be emulating rather than destroying,” he once told the BBC.
From the BBC obituary:
He launched his career as a freelance photographer for the Observer newspaper in 1961, covering […]

A friend in Europe sent the image below a few days ago.
 
The article is about a law allowing people in Holland to have sex in the park.  There are some rules, and hours, you must respect.  One must avoid “doing it” too close to children playgrounds, and one must dispose of condoms and “the eventual […]

Here’s a story I promised I would offer you about a place called My Lai: 
For many, the name Viet Nam simply means a war – one that killed 58 thousand Americans.  Few in America even know that some three million Vietnamese died.  Many Vietnamese have tried to remind the world that Viet Nam is in […]

Went for a few days to My Lai, Central Viet Nam, site of the 1968 massacre in which American soldiers murdered 504 villagers, mostly women and children.  More about that later, but here are some snapshots–from a broken camera–taken in the town of Quang Ngai, 15 minutes away from the site of the massacre. 

This is for you then: http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/16330
 And this, totally unrelated, from the photographer Na Son, taken in Sapa recently.

February 28th, 2008:  State media reported that government auditors have discovered financial violations involving nearly US$730 million at over 100 state agencies and businesses in 2007.   

Some of this, around US$16 million, is money state owned enterprises owe the government.  Another US$380 million had been “appropriated from the organizational kitty.”  
The State Audit apparently referred to the […]

… cause your dog has forgotten it’s a dog and thinks it’s a cat, or a python, and keeps curling itself into a ball… 
 

I jumped at first, certainly as a journalist, to see that martial law had been invoked in Ho Chi Minh City, or as some prefer, Saigon.  In fact, it was about traffic.  The VietNamNet news’s headline: “Martial Law Declared on Traffic in HCM City.”
Apparently 14 “district military agencies” have agreed to cooperate with more traditional […]

Dalmatians are just a bit too dainty for my taste.
 
But Moto wanted a companion.  Just to play with.  So they chase each other, both wanting to jump or hump the other. We’ll see how long this will last.