Writing in The Atlantic, economics professor Patrick Chovanec borrows from one of my favorite books, Joel Garreau’s “The Nine Nations of North America”, and makes a similar analysis of China. While we in the West tend to think of China as an undifferentiated nation, China is an agglomeration of over fifty officially-recognized nationalities (sorry, most of the text at that link is in Chinese, but great pictures) and a variety of regions that were their own sovereign states at different points in history. Chovanec’s analysis looks at the regional divisions in modern China and comes up with a very interesting portrait.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
