The View from Taiwan

In case you had any doubts, the flies are exactly the same here.... But the ladybugs come in many different shades....

Found some great new blogs today, among them this one: Wandering to Tamshui .

Clyde and Mike's Excellent Adventure Begins Today I headed over to Changhua Teacher's College with my Axis and Allies buddy Malv t...

I also get hatemail from time to time. Today's I found this in my mailbox: You've got to be the stupidest person I have ever known....

A friend of mine in another Asian country who publishes regularly in top journals and has long list of publications, including both books an...

Blogs around Taiwan and elswhere have been lit up by the comical scandal of Wang Yu-cheng and the Funeral Parlor Rice Video Scandal. EWSN ...

Yes, the rumors are true. I am related to the President of Taiwan. My wife's sister just called to explain the story.... My wife's g...

Got this one off of Dailykos : A cowboy was holding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud ...

A friend of mine alerted me to this article on MSN.com: " Microsoft bans 'democracy' for China web users " Microsoft's...

Gettin' some fun letters lately. hey, I just finished my MA. Can teach at a univ there? Not to be outdone for curtness, I wrote...

Our feckless President announced today that he would defend Taiwan : Moreover, Bush said, the US adhered to the Taiwan Relations Act, wh...

Our crazy cat has been catnapped. Another in a long line of broken and lost cats we've owned....the Persians who were run over/ran away,...

I was poking around in the China Post and ran across this essay by Fujen University's Daniel Bauer, a Catholic cleric who writes a regul...

In my next life I'm going to study bugs, I've decided. I especially love the island's beetles and spiders. Caught this presumabl...

My wife and I accompanied my daughter's class on a field trip to a mushroom farm in one of the local mushroom growing centers, Hsinshe. ...