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End of August notes An Olympic moment: A belated "Hooray" for the ROC/Taiwan/Chinese-Taipei (whatever you want to call it, as...

Hmmm... maybe democracy is dead after all... News from the folks back home: A couple of weeks ago, Emperor Bush II spoke to some of his...

Notes on the weather and diabetic dogs So far it doesn't seem like Typhoon Rananim is going to have much of an effect around here. I...

Last night I finished reading The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, and I must admit I haven't yet figured out what Isabel Archer is g...

In praise of Taichung's DMW We foreigners often like to complain about things in Taiwan--I do this a lot, negatively comparing insti...

Our water's back! We finally had running water yesterday; I found out last night that they were able to lift the water gate (it was in...

Taichung Stinks! But it's not our fault... In Taichung many of us have gone for over 5 days without running water (since the morning ...

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...