There's a saying in Korean that, "Only a dog catches a cold in the summer." Well, that's me.
On another note, there was a surreal urban moment when I saw a subway car where half of the seats were occupied by Buddhist priests, straw hats and all.
With my new one hour commute to work I have been blessed with an opportunity. Every work day for two hours I have the privilege, neh, the blessing of listening to right winged conservative radio. Being someone from a more left side of the house, this continues to baffle me to the point of aggravation every day. You may say, why would you put yourself through that? Well, to be honest I don’t like the idea of group think and don’t necessarily try to affiliate myself with any one ‘side.’ I mean what am I? A Nazi?
After the war, the lack of full accountings of a large number of soldiers, as well as dodgy POW management in North Korea, left many Americans convinced that there may still have been secret POW camps hidden in Manchuria.
This has nothing specifically to do with the Korean mad-cow protests. I just thought it was funny.
In 1997 there were some cases of variant Crutzfeld-Jakob Disease in Kentucky. After studying the cases, researchers noted the one significant thing all the patients had in common was that they ate squirrel brains, considered a local delicacy.
