Once again, lenient gun ownership laws of the U.S. have been blamed in the wake of the very recent gun-shooting massacre in Tuscon, Arizona.

However, widespread gun ownership and lenient laws governing it may be one of the main reasons why the U.S. is capable of being a great nation. That is, civilians RESERVE the power and forces to tame the elected government, as I heard.

But, that is a very very subtle and controversial issue that my little mind, which is untrained in Political Science, cannot handle.

From time to time, I've been deeply impressed by Westerners' respect for equal rights of individual human beings, poor or rich, minority or WASP,

against the backdrop of my background of being brought up in China.

Just impressed.

That's where self-esteem, assurance, and confidence largely stem from.

Some buildings on American and Canadian streets look ratty.

By comparison, China's big cities have many more buildings which look more modern than North American cities nowadays.

However, how will the buildings in Chinese cities and North American cities look like in fifty years?

The eclectic Android phones seem to be going to win out,

while iPhones allegedly tend to too often drop calls due to their touchscreens' hyper sensitivity.

Macbook is a showpiece of elegant industrial design.

Starbucks shops, as well as Second Cup shops, play damn good songs.

You don't want to lead a life largely driven by desires.

You want a life largely driven by poetry.

Some people are naturally very good at impersonating.

Did you watch the wedding dance of the impersonation of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" MV dance?

Myriad adults and children in the developing world have been bringing vast proportions of their energies and time to bear on the task of English learning.

I don't quite understand why Montreal's Chinese immigrants don't act on that imminent task.

Peace of mind seems too elysian to have in these turbulent economic times.

The invention of nuclear weapons and their proliferation are very crazy things that the human kind has ever done.

Public figures should take up the cause of diminishing them.

Before you decide to go to a new place and live there,

crane your neck and look around better. And think twice.

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A life at a new place is not necessarily a better life, in the long run.

Animals spent most of their time on foraging for foods.

Are men different than them?

We just have better houses than they do. :-)

Tempers in Israel seem to be a little frayed.

Keywords: Palestinians living and working in Israel.