China appreciates their disabled citizens
Xinhua did not explain how the contractor was able to run the project considering his inability to see.
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Grab bag: news style
…compared to Firefox, Opera, or IE, I hated using it.
Unfortunately named
One of the US presidential hopefuls is named Barack Hussein Obama. Not the best name to run on, considering the names of a couple American foils, but I haven’t seen too many people make the obvious derisions.
More poignant is the case of one Osama Al-Najjar. He started to have problems in high school after people started mocking him for his name, which needless to say, generated a lot of uncomfortability* in the classroom. As an added bonus, it was his teachers who would make the jokes, while he never got any grief from fellow students.
Here’s an example of what he went through:
“This one time in gym I was sitting and it was the beginning of the semester and [the teacher] said, ‘Where’s Osama?’ and I said, ‘Right here.’ And he goes, ‘I thought you’d be in back of a cave somewhere.”
(For some reason, I laughed at that one, but it’s not even that good.)
*Liquid Egg Product recognizes that “uncomfortability” is not a real word, and that the proper rendering of the term in English is “discomfort”. He** uses the term for his own personal amusement.
**Liquid Egg Product also recognizes that referring to one’s self in the third person is a characteristic of arrogant monarchs and megalomaniacs. So be it.
Shoba does not have the most understanding parents
Shoba is 20 year old devadasi–a slave to some goddess of fertility.
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When a friend becomes slightly famous
It’s completely surreal to see an old friend on TV, just because…I know him.
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