If I Were Ultraman
That last bit about Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and Jiang Dengtao’s Four Modernizing Represents of Scientific Outlook on Harmonious Grain Growing as High as One Wills It seemed a little forced, but the rest of it was pretty good. Saving the world is a good thing. Even if it were to come [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Re-Starting the China Blog
Posted in china, culture, economics, politics, tagged bailout, china, economics, fights, gong li, longnan, politics, protests, school girls, traitor on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been off-topic since the Olympics ended, so I guess it’s time to bring China back into this blog. But what should I write about? There’s just so much!
The Financial Crisis and China’s Bailout Plan
I’m not a big fan of the government jumping in and ’spending’ a country out of a recession. I mean the [...]
Political Economy
Posted in economics, politics, tagged adam smith, capitalism, classics, communism, economics, intervention, keynes, marx, neo-liberal, politics, theory on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First I lost faith in Marx. Now I’m losing faith in Keynes. Marshall, Humes, Mill, Smith and all them classical folk that I used to dislike are turning me towards the dark side. I had no idea those guys were so subversive.
I’m politically liberal so I was always big into the government intervening. When I [...]
Election
Posted in random, tagged election, fallout 3 on November 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yay, it’s all over. Obama won and there’s a bunch of liberals in the house and senate. In California, gays get to have wonderful lives before getting eaten and farm animals cannot get married.
And I get to play Fallout 3 without interruptions from the outside world.
Human rights are non-existent. They are all human privileges that [...]