Earlier today, activist and journalist Roy Ngerng wrote a fairly anodyne tweet about how the Tsai government had "built Taiwan's re...

                      This was the look on my face when I heard the news. Yeesh. Just a few quick thoughts on today's news of the first ...

I'm still on hiatus but this will be quick.  And in fact, the bigger story today is the raid of the Next Media/Apple Daily offices and a...

Greetings from Coimbra! Their university is great except they have a Confucius Institute. But the building is well-marked and I kind of sp...

Greetings from San Francisco! Lao Ren Cha has been silent these past two weeks because I've been traveling in the US visiting family a...

As we all know, and the reasonable among us have celebrated, marriage equality is finally set to come to Taiwan. I personally do not think a...

Two articles at rather distinct odds came out over the past day or so. One is very much worth reading. Let's start with that one, from t...

It has come to my attention recently that the tentacles of post-truth America, at least on the issue of marriage equality, are beginning the...