Straight across the Strait

The future’s so bright, gotta wear shades

Double Rainbow in Ximen

Air conditioned MRT stations are the best…

No sleep till Brooklyn (a gift that just arrived in the mail)

Outrage After Taiwanese Beverage Chains Found to Adopt Chinese Claims on Taiwan and Hong Kong

Dos Niños

Detailed Maps of the Donors Powering the 2020 Democratic Campaigns (They had to make a second map without Sanders to see the others… 🤣🤣🤣)

Wanhua cat keeps an eye on Sophie

Editors at Taiwan’s pro-Beijing media take daily instructions directly from China, FT reports.

I love Shinsekai Yori so much…

Sad to learn that MAD Magazine will cease publication after this year. It taught me media criticism before I was old enough to know what that was and shaped my sense of humor to this day…

Refreshing summer hat!

Footwear spotted on the MRT.

This really happened.

Uber Deities?

Taiwan with Hong Kong

Sichuan cuisine

Lost Sole (or, “Someone had a crappy morning”)

18 week semesters are hard on everyone …

That’s right, just keep moving along …

On the local train

Black and blue

Even when news organizations don’t dare to call Taiwan a “country” the graphics of such maps make it abundantly clear that Taiwan is an independent sovereign entity with its own laws and helps highlight the absurdity of denying its (actual) status as a country.

Proud of that first speck of blue in Asia!