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They all look so sad, they should be happy they don't have cheney/bush/bush/cheney as
their imperial deciders.

Truly Max, you must look like Gulliver among the Lilliputians. Would you have your wife take a shot of you walking in the crowd so we can get an idea of the scale?

Our government should degree that only people over 6 ft. 2 be allowed to visit China. Ya know....give em the idea that we're all giants.

If you can figure out how to make fire come out your nose now and then that might give us a little more time too. Good luck, have fun, be careful and do everything you can to make them like us, really really like us.

14S !!! I bet they consider charging extra at the shoe check when Max is entering restaurants..

Max, here's a great way to help pay for your trip. Let the local restauranteurs boil your tennies for soup stock. You'll get the shoes back and they'll dry out eventually. Plus, you'll have the knowledge that you have helped feed many, many commie families.
Mention my name in Hong Kong and you could find your throat slashed. But enough of that. Hurry home.

Better Living Through Rail Transit!!
They look peaceful! Now imagine the faces of the single-occupant auto drivers stuck on the I 30 bridge, most on their cell phones, worried if the driver looming up fast in their rear view mirror is also on his or her cell phone! Max, have you been able to get in a pickup basketball game? Heck you were intimidating to full size americans back in the day of the Pulaski Heights Baptist Gymnasium roundball league!

Max,

I am quite jealous, heard the Chinese ambassador talking about the Tibet protests and he sounded like an absolute communist clown...completely ignoring any credible grievance or the very humanity of the people in Tibet or Taiwann.

Anyway I can't talk long I am TAKING SNIPER FIRE ON THE RIVER MARKET, its quite dangerous but is testament to my foreign policy credentials

I love how the Times Blog digs up the Wright crap twice but refuses to even mention that Hillary has been out and out lying about her trip to Bosnia...and in general completely exaggerating about her foreign policy experience.

Anyhoo Max while you were gone, Hillary has completely imploded and needs to drop out of the race asap! If not to save the party at least to save her dignity.

I can't wait till the Bo Jackson cross trainers become popular in Asia

Orval Eugene, if Hillary Clinton causes the Democratic party to implode by continuing her candidacy, then maybe it doesn't deserve to exist. Note here that I am a Democrat, having strayed only twice in my voting life -- for Rockefellers -- and fully expect the party will continue. Now as to whether or not it can propel a candidate to the Oval Office this year -- well, I'm afraid I have my doubts. I will be very surprised if the "antis" -- many of whom may never have voted before -- don't hit the polls in droves like the anti-gay rights faction did in 2004. I'm not even sure a strong white male Democratic veep candidate can salvage the situation. I hope I'm wrong.
Meanwhile, fighting is increasing between Shiite factions in Iraq (without considering Kurds, Sunnis and who knows how many others interested in the power grab) and John McCain is proposing we Americans preside over another Hundred Years War. Too many in the American media, and by extension the American public, are ignoring Iraq and Afghanistan.
Harking back to a Bush-41-ism, we are in deep do-do.

Max, you can get anything in Itaewon. Even in a 14.

I spent a year in South Korea and it was one of the most rewarding experiences in my life. I often tell people that Koreans exemplify "american" ideals more than most Americans. I especially long for their election process, which by law can only start, I think, 60 days before the election. Overnight the streets are plastered with billboards and there are trucks with scantily-clad Korean girls riding around with loudspeakers. They do that when a washing machine store opens, too. Something about a Korean girl in a vinyl skirt singing some Ko-Pop song in freezing temps really sells those high-tech washers.