孟買春秋

An optimist is someone who believes we are all moving towards a better world.  A pessimist is someone who thinks we have already arrived.  I...

Sigh.... our mindless and malfunctioning mayor has managed to blow another microchip and forced me to write something on a Sunday evening wh...

(中文在下方) I spotted a picture of the Health Minister sitting talking to a group of people which pretty much every publication here was using y...

(中文在下方) Word of the Day today is Hypocrisy which is defined as “the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than...

I’ve written before about the worrying underlying forces at work within the personality of one of Taiwan’s prominent figures, and poked some...

The German philosopher Georg Hegel (1770-1831) famously said, “The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from histo...

(中文在下方) I’ve never been a fan of blood sports like bull-fighting, fox-hunting, or hunting in general for that matter. I find it cruel and un...