As usual, China-Taiwan commentators not from or based in Taiwan sound like sad old hamburger waiters prattling on about sauces. It's not...

I don’t have a good cover photo so enjoy these amateur door gods.  I admit I haven’t been blogging as much lately, partly because I’m busy w...

I don't have a good cover photo so enjoy this picture of an interesting gate.  Since it became apparent that some businesses in Taiw...

A few weeks ago, a friend came over. I was helping him out with something, we had a few beers, and at some point I offhandedly mentioned th...

This isn't Taiwan centric, although it seems to happen to a frightening degree in Taiwan. Let's be fair: and elsewhere, too. Simply ...

So, I'm not far from declaring officially, to my company, that I won't be signing a new employment contract. I'm posting this...

Here is just a brief thought on the rising utility and health insurance premiums in Taiwan (I believe the premium rate hike has not taken ef...

Just a couple of articles worth reading: Chinese officials free mother who was imprisoned for lobbying for harsher sentences for the men who...

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net Back in the USA I hated Big Pharma. Now I work (in part) for them. My reasons back home were d...

I wrote a longish post on this awhile back , but thought the matter deserved a bit more. A friend recently put up a post for her own circl...

Photo f rom this site  - please don't sue me There have been a lot of online petitions and  public outcry  in the West recently ...