Some of the online text is stupid, but the music is pretty cool. At least it’s better than this.
(HT to Japundit)
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Read it and weep, folks. Chosun.com research has uncovered a case where a foreigner who had committed a crime in her native country was able to enter the country and work at a domestic university, and another where a foreign ... [Link]
Posted 92 minutes ago
수원 영통신도시 중심가에 위치한 느티나무골육교.. 인근에 있는 영통느티나무에서 이름을 따온것 같네요~ 하지만 외관은 수원시의 자랑이자 세계문화유산으로 등재된 수원화성의 모습을 하고 있다는 것이죠. 육교 광장에는 대형 해시계가 꾸며져 있습니다. 영통 신도시 중심가에 있어서 그런지 주변에는 유흥가가 가득하네요^^ 육교 한편에는 산책로도 꾸며져 ... [Link]
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Well, since she’s resigning as governor of Alaska, perhaps she could relocate to South Carolina and contest the 2010 race? After the Vanity Fair hit-piece and the interview with Runner’s World I wouldn’t have expected her to withdraw from the ... [Link]
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All I have to say is good luck with this: A complete ban on tobacco in the military is needed but would likely take about 20 years, according to a new Institute of Medicine study commissioned by the departments of ... [Link]
Posted 6 hours ago
Building on one of my favorite subjects, devolution, the decline of the state and the proliferation of microstates, I’ve put together a map of the future of Europe in 2020. It is purely speculative and in no way a firm ... [Link]
Posted 6 hours ago
Richard Bernstein(Master Media Speakers Bureau)I guess that mainstream media ain't dead yet, or I wouldn't be learning so much from it. Yesterday was Ignatius applying Dostoyevsky to Putin; today is Bernstein applying Kolakowski to Iran.I first read Leszek Kolakowski in ... [Link]
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Kim Jong-Il’s third son, the likely successor to the North Korean leader, has been appointed acting defence chief under his ailing father, a Japanese newspaper reported on Saturday. Kim Jong-Un started supporting his father as acting chairman of North Korea’s ... [Link]
Posted 8 hours ago
After reading about yet another dumb utterance issuing from the mouth of Transformers starlet Megan Fox, and subsequently reading yet another revealing article about the snowbilly from Wasilla, a revelation struck me: Sarah Palin is to American politics precisely what ... [Link]
Posted 8 hours ago
Writing in The Atlantic, Robert Kaplan offers an awfully grim retrospective on how Sri Lanka won its 26-year war against the Tamil Tigers.Though it was only a one-day news story in the United States, a momentous event occurred last spring, ... [Link]
Posted 8 hours ago
Hiddink named goodwill ambassador of Incheon fest: Incheon Mayor Ahn Sang-soo, left, and Guus Hiddink, who led the South Korean national football team to the semifinals of the 2002 World Cup, pose with a soccer ball after the appointment of ... [Link]
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Then there’s this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptyzc4BQliY
Am I the only one who finds humor in the fact that the the sign advertising hot dogs (frankfurters) has an American flag on it?
Text?
I thought they were lyrics to the song!
I want to be like Samurai Dave!
Seriously, very cool music.
To get a better understanding of that kind of music from that general part of the world, one could do much worse than watch the moving, Sundance Audience Award winning documentary “Genghis Blues” that depicts a blind San Francisco bluesman Paul Pena and his visit/homage to the land of the Tuvan throat singers. I got a copy of the film on VHS several years ago, but it is now available also on DVD, the music on CD, etc. at Amazon. The whole assortment can be found at http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb.....1&y=23
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