Bun Cha Obama

Russell Baker, Times Columnist and Celebrated Humorist, Dies at 93 (Better Baker obit from the Times. I’m sure he influenced my blogging style in some subliminal way…)

Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Baker dies at 93 (The first columnist I ever read with any regularity, but so long ago I have no memory of what his politics actually were…)

Indigenous Occupation Dismantled by Police on 699th Day, Occupiers Vow to Continue

The Austronesian Homeland and Dispersal (Latest article by Robert Blust summarizing the state of the field.)

“Taylor agrees, telling Teen Vogue that it is not enough simply to feel revolutionary energy to create a massive upheaval“

‘Social Death’ in Denmark “The European country is isolating and excluding asylum seekers until they disappear from society completely.”

72 super rich Chinese dead before their time since 2003: 15 were murdered, 17 committed suicide, seven died from accidents, 14 were executed & 19 died from diseases.

‘Nancy’ Comic Artist Olivia Jaimes Gives Extended Interview

“We shouldn’t make the same mistake the president does when he confuses climate and weather… The climate includes a president… who just last week made a joke about a government massacre of Native Americans“

Dvarapala (19th Century)

Window

Sliding door

Message correction room (in bunker)

China’s ambassador to U.S.: We want to turn Uighurs into “normal persons”

Yosuke Masuko: Spinning dough in Vietnam - The Japan Times

“Uighur cooks in restaurant kitchens chop with cleavers chained to the wall.“

Time to Break the Silence on Palestine - The New York Times

“We have a rich picture of the beginnings of language… But if you wanted to know how language ends in the dying, there’s next to nothing“

A Women’s Wall against the fascist menace in Kerala? Some less-comfortable observations

As LA Teachers Strike Over Charter Schools, Democrat Cory Booker Speaks at Pro-Charter Rally

Highlights of 2018 English-language Reporting on the Mass Persecution of Turkic Muslims in China

If you are in NY be sure to visit the Mort Gerberg retrospective at the New-York Historical Society! (February 15 – May 5)

The Alphabets – Atlas of Endangered Alphabets

Can China fix its runaway housing market? (Interesting article from November.)