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Long Vacation OK, so I've been on a long vacation from the blog. A lot has been going on, though. I sent a draft of the first chapt...

Teacher evaluations go e- hua My school is now promoting its new use of an online teacher evaluation process. As of this semester, student...

Had my health exam yesterday at Ch'eng Ch'ing Hospital. They took my NT$1100 , photocopied my passport, took my height and weight, c...

BIGGER SIZE BRAND-NAME SHOES was the headline on the small card placed in my office mailbox. The card went on to ask if I were "[l]oo...

Talk about bad timing... So this morning I'm talking to the secretary about the health examination form that she had given us and poin...

Getting my ---- together Well, we're back to square one here, stool-wise. The secretary in my department made some phone calls and det...

More stool news Well, this blog is becoming very ... ummm ... excrementally focused... Sorry about that. (Perhaps I should change its ti...

More on the health examination mentioned below You might notice that the health examination form I linked to below doesn't actually me...

Foreign university English teachers as foreign labor While I wasn't paying attention, the status of foreign university teachers in T...

CNN Online once again misinforms the public about Taiwan The end of an article by CNN State Department Producer Elise Labott announcing...

Bush's America Paul Krugman has a great column that showed up on the Op-Ed pages of Thursday's Taipei Times : " Bush's ...

More on the Washington Post interview Yesterday's Taipei Times contained an article claiming that the writer of the Washington Po...

Chen's Washington Post interview Chen Shui-bian's recent interview (registration required) with the Washington Post has been mi...

Disclaimer: I should probably make the obvious (?) statement here that the views expressed on this blog are in no way meant to be representa...

I've been meaning to mention the blog that Scott Sommers , up the road a piece in Taipei, is maintaining about the political situation h...

Chen's press conference, the 327 demonstration, and 口號 While I was out with some friends this evening, it seems Chen Shui-bian had a p...

Primary and secondary rhetoric and the study of ancient Chinese rhetoric Thanks to a citation by John Logan in the winter 2004 Rhetoric S...

Just noticed an article in the China Post that reminds those of us in Taiwan that China is watching closely what's going on here--and ...

The China Post , usually a pro-KMT paper, has an editorial today that suggests that the people of Taiwan need to accept the fact that Chen ...

Last night more news came out that I didn't get a chance to mention. For one thing, the difference between Lien's and Chen's vot...