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This is perhaps the best movie in the Gong Li or Zhang Yimou cannons – and that is saying quite a bit. Its release on DVD has been long ov...

From the Kansas City Star (requires free registration): Corporate profits have surged since the 2001 recession. Stock market values for the ...

In light of the wide net the NSA has cast looking for terrorists, here's a couple of rhetorical questions for ya. How many civil liberti...

For the next few weeks, we here at Liverputty will be looking at some Anthony Mann westerns. Sounds good, huh? So settle in, get comfy, brea...

I was thinking of posting some more fine China, but thought it would be more appropriate, instead, to check out the most recent victim of I...

Iran needs to watch more Hollywood films, desparately. This fellow (Professor Hasan Bolkhari ) is a cultural adviser to the Iranian Educatio...

Wired's Bruce Schneier posts an interesting discussion of the need for proxies in our society, and how that shakes out in the port discu...

Stories of the Floating World became a literary genre in the early Tokugawa period (late 17th to early 18th century) and told of escapades, ...

I support him as he supports the port deal. He seems to be the only one who isn't hysterical. I trust him more than the instant port exp...

Austin Bay has cast his nets over recent events on the islands here and here - seems like there's so much going on it'll make your...

When it comes to leadership, the U.S. has been extraordinarily lucky. From the list of 43 presidents - very few have been just plain bad. An...

Take: This movie is better than I thought it would be. Lesson learned: If you’re a geisha, the only thing that will treat you worse than a...

Hawkeye and Trapper tricked Henry Blake into causing his own death! Col. Henry Blake was shot down over the Sea of Japan in 1975. Two and a...

She enjoys soft music and intimate candle-lit dinners. She likes it when her partner says silly things like "Gee, I'd like to drin...

Talk about wearing blinders. This interview gets to the very heart of media bias and is definitely worth listening to – or reading. Hewitt ...

There's a reason we call nice dinnerware 'China': Chinese pottery is the best. Qing pottery dazzles with vibrant colors. But str...

This vase is from the Qing dynasty (ca 1736-1795). On display at The Shanghai Museum . Lots of good stuff there.