I earlier suggested we should adopt India’s practice of referring to the better off segments of society as “the creamy layer,” but Krugman’s latest column suggests that the creamy layer has its own creamy layer: A few days ago Steve Pearlstein of the Washington Post — a good guy, and sensible — wrote about income [...]
Dakxin Bajranage’s play, Budhan has been up on the web for some time. The wonderful thing about making art and literature freely available on the web is that it can be adapted and remixed by others. So, I’m happy to learn that Taiwanese blogger Zonble has translated Dakxin’s play into Chinese and posted it on [...]
A few weeks ago I dashed off an e-mail wishing one of my new colleagues a “Happy Chinese New Year.” I got back a note politely informing me that she is a big supporter of Taiwanese independence, and as such prefers to use the term “Lunar New Year.” I politely replied that I completely understood [...]
It seems that one stamp is not enough. It is a little out of focus, but you can see they gave me a second stamp to use to sign all “Payments Received” documents. Actually, I don’t even get to keep this stamp. The ever helpful administrative assistant keeps it and stamps things for me. She [...]