I for one have been jaded by the importunity of the ongoing back-to-back economic crises.

Well, maybe I shouldn't expect peace of mind to be the norm of economic life. Instead, I must expect chaos and disasters to be it.

Where potatoes are sold loose, the price of each is much higher than their counterparts in bags.

Does the same thing apply to the labor market? No, it doesn't add up.

How much has China been defined and shaped by the grisly 'Cultural Revolution' between the 1960s and 1970s in the country?

I believe the good social fabrics had been largely broken and then wild Capitalist social fabrics and values sprung up and filled the places left by those broken ones.

Some people say that Germany helps Greece and the like with their sovereign debt problems because it just wants to be a Good Samaritan. Does that saying add up?

Are dentists knavish?

Hummer, the discontinued luxury SUV, probably will have some value for collection.

Here goes an interesting kind of copyright infringement which runs deep in Chinese tradition.

See Yes, He Sold Fakes. They Are Supposed to Be Fake.

One probable replication by the consumers to Google's imposing change that the Google Reader won't support the 'Share' and 'Share with note' functionality any more is to flee to other service providers and not to trust the new products which Google will roll out in the future very much.

In the Chrome browser, for my most often used web apps, I prefer them to be bookmarklets than to be Chrome extensions or Chrome apps.

Many people tend to think theories are irrelevant to the real world and never the twain shall meet. Should I beg to differ?

Importune seems to be the fear of not being in the know in this era of information overload.

The pith of Harvard U. seems to be the Harvard Yard.

But maybe it's not. The pith of it is lonely strenuous academic life.

Sometime I see women with bruises on their faces walking out of a car or in a shopping center or whatever, I naturally suspect they're in the situations of domestic violence.

In today's world, getting an academic degree is more and more like a CYA, not like real education.

In terms of providence, maybe people who majored in arts in university have less of it than people who majored in science and engineering. I meant after graduation.

It can be unnatural for an atheist Chinese to completely understand the concept of 'divine jealousy' in Christianity and Judaism.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jealousy_in_religion .

Moreover, I'm also intrigued by the Christian perspective on human jealousy.

Our baby daughter was annoying during last night's dinner. But I shouldn't have lashed at the table.

I signed up Facebook years ago. Then I've stayed out of circulation in that sphere since. Facebook is just not my cup of tea yet.

I used to haunt coffee shops.

It's been bruited about that the eventual actual procurement cost for F-35 jet fighters, which are a seemingly important sort of 5th-generation jet fighter made by Lockheed Martin, has soared to an estimated US$156 million each, from the earliest projection of US$50.2 million each.

See the 3rd paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II
and
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/12/lockheed-fighter-idUSN1123180820100312 .

I guess Canada will beef up its mettle and buy those F-35 air fighters anyway, largely due to its escalating concerns over the northern territory.