Sunday, January 27, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
PJM: China's Dirty Pre-Olympic Housecleaning - 'China dumps truckloads of garbage on own its citizens, and when one of them records the event on his cell phone, he’s beaten to death by municipal officers. Then his cell phone footage is deleted by the regime intent on airbrushing its repression in advance of the Olympics. Bridget Johnson argues that China’s preparation for the Summer Games demonstrates exactly why it doesn’t deserve to host them in the first place...'
