Month: July 2005

Sunday in the Sticks II: The Revenge

Last week, in the storied tradition of Saturday Morning Garden Blogging, I started  posting a series of diaries about my little spot of alternating paradiso and purgatorio — The Sticks. Those of you who have occupied...

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By their fruits ye shall know them

Cross posted from: The 10,000 Things Signs of Good Government When Master Xuetang was leading the community at Qianfu, one day he asked a recent arrival where he had come from. The student said he had come from Fujian. Xuetang...

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Another Indignity for Visiting Foreigners

X-posted at ETG A couple of months ago I wrote a diary about the US-VISIT program, which requires visitors from abroad to submit to biometric identification. I also described the technical problems involved. The Department of...

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He Who Wields Power Determines the Law

There is something that is becoming increasingly clear to me. The Bush administration has made a number of decisions that fall into a hazy legal universe. Whether or not anyone is indicted and prosecuted for these decisions will...

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