http://robinmackinnon.com Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:37:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ni hao gou gou!  ni qu zai nar?   ... breakfast in Beijing ... ... and early morning traffic. Noodles, noodles - hen duo de mian bao!  qi jiu ba / 798 ... How much is that doggy in the window?     http://robinmackinnon.com/archives/ni-hao-beijing-july-6-8-2010    Any number of people are waiting to pounce with criticism of you no matter what you do or don't say about either this or that or both.  That happens to be one of the prisms of reality that we must all deal with by some means or other.   We may, ... http://robinmackinnon.com/archives/wal%c2%a9mart-polemic-september-1-2009 http://robinmackinnon.com/archives/zhong-guo-july-6-2009 Too much radio silence. Let's just say ... ...irony is not lost on some people.  People have to live on it, make thin soup of it, choke on it for decades or centuries.  They know the taste of it everywhere they go on their own land.  Myself, I cannot escape it ... http://robinmackinnon.com/archives/irony-april-8-2009 Something beyond irony, something bloody and obliterating has been going on which colonizers and their servants the world over refuse to see.  I encourage those who think Israel is ‘just defending itself' to look at things as they really are. There are certainly those who believe that the modern Jewish state ... http://robinmackinnon.com/archives/the-grand-offensive-continues-january-13post-84 On my way out the door yesterday afternoon, cbc reported that the Israeli "defense" forces were marching into Gaza.  A couple of days ago it was reported that the airforce had "run out of things to bomb" and was revisiting previous targets.  A Norwegian doctor at a hospital in Gaza ... http://robinmackinnon.com/archives/the-grand-offensive-january-5post-83 The Israeli airforce bombed Gaza yesterday.  I read about how cleverly they chose their targets.  What about their timing?  Palestinian children were making their way home from school all over the Gaza when it happened.  I also read that after a target was hit once, a bomber returned to hit ... http://robinmackinnon.com/archives/israeli-airstrikes-on-gaza-december-28post-82 PREDICTION: landslide. If I try to imagine how long it has taken and at what cost it has come about, that a black citizen of America should rise to the post of POTUS, I feel gutted. They called him a socialist and a muslim - as if those were, by definition - bad ... http://robinmackinnon.com/archives/tuesday-november-4-2008-post-81 “The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government… Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good. Without this greater interest, the individual is reduced to a lesser, narrower being limited to immediate needs.” - ... http://robinmackinnon.com/archives/thursday-october-16-2008-post-80 Oh, Canada; Have I told you lately how much I love you?  You're staggering around with election fever - again.  Your immune system is down, I'd say.  You need to get your head examined.  That good ol' u.s. of a. has backed right up into your sinuses.  We're all 'muricans now, ... http://robinmackinnon.com/archives/tuesday-october-14-2008-post-79