Neanderpundit

has an interesting feature: It will read aloud to you, either through it’s own speakers or headphones.

The voice sounds like Stephen Hawking. Just to be a dork, I downloaded “My Secret Life” and listened to the juicier parts online. Having the synthesised Stephen Hawking-like voice relate to you the details of his first homosexual encounter is freakish beyond reason. I reccomend it.

I really, really do. I have the greatest hope that someday, capitalism and democracy come to China, and free the Chinese people from the oppression of the statist assholes that now run the damned place.

I do not cast aspersions on their industriousness, but in fact applaud it. I’m all for people who are willing to work hard to better themselves, and we could learn a thing or two from the chinese in this respect.

On the other hand, their protectionist trade and inflationary tactics are a clusterfuck to us, and this is why I began Made in America, with mr B, to try to get people used to buying qualty US goods wherever possible.

We certainly have no goddamned business dealing- as a nation, or a municipality- with the dictators of this country, and to encourage “Dialogue” with them is TRAITOROUS. Listening, wingnuthead? Listening, Dick Daley??

the combination of bad fast food (there isn’t a decent restaurant in town in which I haven’t already become supersaturated) and the 80 grit asswipe in the hotel is starting to seriously harsh my mellow.