That’s all very interesting, but what reasonably objective, consistent, accurate criteria could there be to measure relative power and influence, especially over the span of history?

it is just one more saddening sign that we have entered into another frigid period with Russia.

I like Obama, but you’re quite right. The thing I fault him the most for is his Midwestern sense of level-headed reason and responsibility.

Almost certain you misread “bumper and bumper” warranty.

It doesn’t sound like you’ve quite got it still. This is it in a nutshell: Taiwan and China are the two sides of the Chinese civil war, which stopped fighting in 1949 but never ended. These days, a lot of people on Taiwan are looking to call it quits with the whole being-Chinese thing, and make their own…

Black don’t crack and yellow don’t mellow.

The incident has made national news in Taiwan.

I think the point he’s trying to make is that some information can be more efficiently presented for your readers with text. Here, of course, you have explanations and visual demonstrations, which are NOT more easily conveyed with words (spatial information). But you can help your readers make up their minds whether…

Wow. That was cool. The guest, the host, the car, the conversation, the whole thing. That could be one of the best interviews either one of them has done - just talking about whatever interested them. Something in our tedious lives of compromise came together and didn’t suck.

I hear in the video a woman say “That’s good”. Is that your mom? Her tone indicates feigned enthusiasm

Now there’s something that will keep peoples’ interest. Honestly, everything else is just another car.

Finally someone who actually knows. Thanks!

Taiwan resident here. Thanks for dropping by and - oh hell - even mentioning us.

Just not in a good way.

This is the manliest thing ever done, even counting the Normandy invasion.

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The jar got put there originally because some people don’t like loose change. But suddenly I have to give you money? Why, because you put out a jar? How about we all do that - sales clerks, mechanics, nurses, lawyers - everybody who comes face to face with their customer can panhandle them for an extra few bucks to…

Better in winter:

That’s the only perspective from which Taipei looks even passably decent - a million freakin’ feet up in the air.

But the cup cannot pass beyond the doormat. That is the bargain, and the price of the eggnog latte.