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November 02, 2008

Those Mischievous Quebecois

Just got word from Iago in Shenzhen that some radio comedians in Montreal prank called Sarah Palin the other day.

The internets confirm the story .  Even Big Media Canada is writing about it.



A bit silly to share a radio spot in video form, but the YouTube link is all the Les Justiciers Masques website offered me.

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October 30, 2008

Ignorance or Strategery?

Sarah Palin doesn't like fruit flies.  Do we know why?

Does she think they are tiny and silly and dirty and thus obviously totally scientifically useless?

Or does she worry about the implications of research that deals with genes and genetics?  Might she think fruit fly research lies on a slippery slope toward acknowledging truth in evolution?

Thank you GOOD Blog for making me wonder about this.  But why, GOOD Blog, did you react to my submitted comment so coldly?  You didn't post it.  You didn't tell me it was awaiting moderation.  You didn't tell me something technical had gone wrong.  I'm confused.  So I resort to blogging.
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October 02, 2008

Robbie, Jerry, Michael, and Sarah Palin

At 10:45 pm EST tonight, I got a text:

U watch the debate?  Palin is so dumb.  But she gives me a boner.

Crazy world we have on our hands these days.

To be fair, however, the man that sent me that text is something of an extreme case.  He's a womanizer lunatic.  I can't help but absolutely adore him.  And he's someone about whom I wrote one of my favorite emails ever. 

It all happened about a year ago.  I was doing my back and forth between China and the USA thing.  I landed in Beijing.  I walked in on some drama.  I loved the story.  And I wrote it and sent it.  To a girl.  Hoping to impress her.

Names changed to protect the guilty...

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The doorhandle was broken and the lock had been changed when I got back to the Beijing apartment the other night.  Robbie came to the door in a brand new white bathrobe and hotel slippers and told me the broken door was one of the objects and people least damaged by Michael's most recent dive into total insanity. 

I'd heard some grumblings over email from Robbie while back in the USA, and even Michael himself had a bit to say about a relapse a few of the times we talked on Skype, but it's hard to tell what's serious and what's dramatized when you're that far away.

I walked in, put my stuff down, the cat cruised up to say hi, and Robbie and I started exchanging stories.  We were meeting Jerry for dinner, and we had a few minutes to kill. 

Michael walked out of the shower.  He was originally a part of the dinner plan; he was certainly part of the on