Nixon in China, the orange juice

[Sean]

Well I think she drinks from one of those glasses with liquid in a thin area around the glass only- she tips it up and drinks but afterwards there's the same amount there...

[jochanaan]

I should learn these little lessons . . . titter them with a little scatology, and they'll take you more seriously . . . .

Point taken.

[Sean]

Ahhhh you crazies...

This was the defining moment in late 20th c music and you all missed it... Ahhh

[Sean]

Hey I just swapped my Spring Festival door banners for Mao Zedong. Not quite sure what the other staff think but I'm expecting them to keep their views to themselves... Mao was responsible for tens of millions of deaths but he also modernized the country for Deng's reforms to work, vastly increased education, housing, women's rights and health care to provide for great population increases. And whatever is said about him in the West most of it issues from prejudice and propaganda out of fear of China.