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Things I learned tonight. 1. You can tell Detroit are pure winners by the fact that they celebrate very calmly after each goal, never getting ahead of themselves. 2. Every time I've ever though Datsyuk might be one of the greats, I was correct. It's a shame he doesn't get even more recognition...

This is almost dead on the same as my picks and wants. I would like to see San Jose beat Detroit, though, and I think they have a very legitimate chance. I don't dare call Detroit a lock for this. And I pick Philly over Boston. Boston could barely beat Montreal, Kaberle is old and slow, Lucic...

Both Burrows and Toewes with some of the greatest playoff goals I've seen in ages. Great game!

Hey Tiassa, long time no see. After watching the Kings fall in a blaze of sorrow, I watched the Rangers pull up 3-0 against my Caps* and thought 'nah, it won't happen again'. Then it did. What a goddamn awesome hockey game last night! And what fun the playoffs is! Sorry to be such a cliche, but...

Classical Chinese (文言) has qing as blue/green/clear depending on the context. Modern Mandarin has a number of distinct words for each of these. Even in Classical, the context generally makes it so obvious as to not be confusing at all, and a proper scholar of Classical Chinese (that is, any...

Both current Chinese and Russian scholarship dismiss any claims of biological warfare on the part of the Americans. North Korea, of course, still says it happened. I'm doing research right now on Chinese media representations of North Korea before, during and after the war, and one interesting...

Again, not quite. The major turning point was the announcement of de-Stalinization. It wasn't that Mao wanted to one-up the CCCP, it's just that they were advancing an anti-Maoist line. I'm no supporter of Mao's, but he was kind of in a forced position. 1. The Americans supported the...

That's not exactly true. The Soviets sided with the GMD for the majority of the time. Often explicitly, even as the GMD were killing communists. It's really quite bizarre. The major reason that the Chinese intelligentsia turned to the Soviets was the Treaty of Versailles. Before that, most of...

Perhaps we could expand the subject to talk about whether or not China will overtake the States in terms of art, cultural influence, political influence... areas outside of economics and military!

Wait a tic, America has how many millions of uninsured? Isn't it something like 18% of your nation has no coverage? The Canadian system has it's own problems which we will hopefully improve, but I'll take our set-up over the American one 365 days of the year. As a doctor I know who moved from...

Yeah I'm on Chomsky's side on this one.

Yeah, it must be hard being a white male in America. The discrimination you must face. Lord oh lord. But seriously, your grandfather killed my grandfather.

I don't know. But I know a big chunk of the population isn't.

As someone else pointed out quite recently but you seem to have ignored; there are an awful lot of folk who don't follow Batman. Shocking, I know. Moreover, it's not really important whether or not the primary slant is a Joker slant. Putting white face on a black man is going to look like...

Well I've been on outdoor trips in Canada and outdoor trips in China, and the ratio is a lot smaller in Canada. (Admittedly I haven't spent much time hiking in the States.) Yes, you're right that fewer Chinese own cars. Instead, they just hire massive buses to take them around and opt out of...

Perhaps you're right to suggest the Chinese can pull themselves out of polluted mess, but I don't see it happening. I read an interesting paper recently on why Chinese and Western travel habits in natural environments differ so much. As you may know (certainly know if you've been to China!)...

Really? There are people who think that painting a black man's face white - which will always look like whiteface - will not call to mind the history of that look? I'm not suggesting the artist's intention was to be racist. I'm just saying that if he didn't know that's how it would be...

As one of the doctors said, my hip is probably going to have problems from now on anyway, so I just need to be careful. I've already got bad knees and wrists from hockey, so this just kind of adds to the growing list. My friend just left China today and we'd planned this whole fantastic hiking...

We're okay now, though. My hip is still fucked up pretty badly, my nose is broken and I've got a bunch of cuts and bruises, but nothing too serious. After a few days visiting the hospital (mostly for my buddy's infection) we continued hiking up in the northwest, though slower and safer than we...

Well my friend got a pretty bad infection in his hand, but it's slowly turning into a very cool scar. It was late by the time we fell down the waterfall so we had to sleep on the edge of the cliff with wet clothes, which was kind of awful and made both of us sick. (Actually, we didn't sleep, we...