798 Art Zone, Beijing, P.R.C. (May 2008)

Rick Santorum changes his Facebook Status to 'Endorsing'?

Does Santorum believe his political future hinges on a Romney defeat?
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Jon Huntsman Compares GOP with China's Communist Party?
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...life in contrast...

It's hard to imagine living in today's so-called modern world without a cell phone and the internet (much less an indoor flush toilet).

Before the invention of the pay phone, corner grocery stores once provided small neighborhoods and rural towns with the only telephonic link to the outside world.

Small Chinese grocery shop with neighborhood telephone

Changsha, P.R.C. (June 2009)

Fenghuang, China (April 2009)

"Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history
and retained her reputation." ~ Will Rogers

Fenghuang, China (April 2009)
Photo by Peter Rimar.

Kim Kardashian. (Pause) Why?

"I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about."
~ John Cusack

...perspective...

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
~ Maya Angelou

Photos by Peter Rimar.

Changsha, P.R.C. (January 2009)

Photo by Peter Rimar

...perspective...

Blogger's view from a sleeper car window on a Chinese Train

between Beijing and Shenzhen (June 2008).

Political Food for Thought?

“The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician.” ~ Mayor Edward Koch

"Travel teaches toleration." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Chinese poet sentenced to seven years in prison?
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Mao Calender on a Blue Hanger, Fenghuang, P.R.C. (March 2009).
Photo by Peter Rimar.

Public Bridegroom Hazing, Changsha, P.R.C. (May 2009).
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Street Scene, Changsha, P.R.C. (February 2009)

Facebook unsure it can enter China because of government regulations?
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Neighborhood Home Brewery, Changsha, P.R.C. (June 2009).
Photo by Peter Rimar.

...reflections...

Chinese Couple, Beijing (June 2008)

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." 
~ Frank Lloyd Wright