I guess that if you have the time and patience, anything is possible.

China knows all about good public relations with the world. A group of zealot Christians who brought over 300 copies of the Bible printed in Chinese, had them confiscated by Chinese customs. I guess after invading Tibet, killing student protesters, placing religious people in work camps or violating human rights in a variety of ways, pissing off some Bible thumpers is just everyday business.

'I wonder if Stone got any inspiration from Forrest Gump? The story (based on a novel by Winston Groom) deals with a not so bright man from Southern America who becomes very famous and influential but at the same time remains gaumless.'

And if you had to look it up like me, gaumless is a real word.

'Social programming is the set of instructions each of us learned to fit in with society. Our family members, school teachers, and peer groups were all part of the socialization process.'

After the EU and the US, now it's Taiwan's turn to get all anti-trust on Microsoft's ass. Having limited OS options or being forced to use Vista over XP has the Taiwanese up in arms. Our heart goes out to you, Steve Ballmer.

I feel that rejecting someone's invite in their very own little group in which special little you has been so gloriously asked to participate in, would make the inviter feel in someway rejected. And who could be so cruel? Other than me, I mean.

I hope it's the spirit of a heavy-duty bond trader who happened to have a coronary while he was up here for a weekend. Please don't let it be one of the local yahoos who ran his pickup into a tree.

The fresh-faced young lady at the counter took my order- two double burgers and an extra large milkshake. She said, “Would you like a blowjob with that?”

There was one special lady who lived in the four-plex group home that I worked at. Debbie was 35 years old and had been put into the state hospital by her parents as a young child. This was during a time when society believed that the state could care for this population better than their parents and the community.

I’m reminded of a line from a Matthew Good song called “21st Century Living”:
“Ambition is a tricky thing; it’s like riding a unicycle over a dental floss rope over a wilderness of razorblades.”