Empires of Tedium 有沒有希望   The uplifting message of We’re Not Going Back—Or, Are We?, an essay by John Pavlovitz reproduced here as part of the series America’s Empire of Tedium — Trump Redux 2024, is as vital as it is familiar.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts This is the fifty first chapter in Other People’s Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

Spectres & Souls   … we need a way to mute America. Why? Because America has no chill. … America insists that you bear witness to it tripping on its dick and slamming its face into an uncountable row of scalding hot pies.… Read

Hong Kong Apostasy 義人得生
惡人必亡   The quelling of the Umbrella Movement in 2014 marked the beginning of the end of Hong Kong’s unique place in the Chinese world. Ten years later, on 19 November 2024, that process reached its inevitable denouement.… Read

Spectres & Souls 臥薪嘗膽 This is bullcrap, dude!
Herbert Garrison: Now children, it’s not that bad. There’s plenty of great new mascots on the sheet to chose from. The Hurricanes, the Blizzards, the Redskins, the Indians…
Wendy: But aren’t Indians and Redskins just as offensive?… Read

Spectres & Souls 梟雄   At the center of what I know is the realization and the acceptance of the certainty that never in my lifetime will I live again in the world in which I was born and grew to maturity.… Read