There’s a new protected post. 
(Katie, do you need help finding the confessional box?)
In other news, there was a very interesting Frontline on PBS
tonight. It was all about the “Tank Man” in Tiananmen
Square.
This
is an image that never fails to move me deeply, even though I’ve seen
it a million times and even wrote a paper about it in graduate school.
What’s amazing is that very, very few Chinese people (living in China)
have ever seen it. More on that perhaps another time; I’m
sleepy and have two more hectic days of school left before spring
break.
–Robert Maynard Hutchins
is an image that never fails to move me deeply, even though I’ve seen
it a million times and even wrote a paper about it in graduate school.
What’s amazing is that very, very few Chinese people (living in China)
have ever seen it. More on that perhaps another time; I’m
sleepy and have two more hectic days of school left before spring
break.
Quote of the day:
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from
ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and
undernourishment”.
–Robert Maynard Hutchins
Poisoned by Fairy Tales 
That quote is both prophetic and thought provoking….I love Frontline…and missed this one, I will have to see if it will replay later in the week. Ahh…you still have spring break ahead of you….ours here is over already….hang in there…you’ve almost made it : ) RYC: I very much enjoyed the comment you left for me….you cannot know how often the thought crosses my mind these days to pack it all up and head for someplace that society hasn’t tainted…if such a place exists…let me know when you’re ready : D , lol….I am going to see if I can find the story about the guy that went to Samoa….it sounds fascinating!
What was Tank Man’s ultimate fate? I remember when that happened– but don’t remember the aftermath. Was the story perhaps on the launch of Google in China– albeit a censored Google that won’t allow Chinese citizens to search for terms like “democracy” or “Tibet”? They had seemed to be a company that put principle ahead of profits, but this move makes me question if that’s still the case.