I/O CARDS:

Pictures of young Chinese fei zhu liu (anti-mainstream or counter-culture fashion) from Anhui. Many Chinese think they are retarded. What do you think?

Controversy over whether He Kexin, gold medallist in the uneven bars, is under the minimum age of 16 has surrounded her participation in the Beijing Olympics.

Michael Phelps’ fans will have to be content with just watching him in the heats today.

Japan’s breaststroke champion, Kitajima Kosuke will go into the men’s 200m breaststroke final as favorite for the event, having already won gold in the 100m breaststroke. Mike Brown of Canada and Sc

Philip Dalhausser and Todd Rogers from the United States have defeated Fabio Magalhaes and Marcio Araujo of Brazil in a close match to win the gold medal in the men’s volleyball.

On the Issues does a good job summarizing some of his stances by taking quotes from various debates and speeches he gave in the past. While not a sure-fire indicator, it gives you some ideas into his thought process. I must say: no thank you.

An entertaing word-picture of show-jumping and dressage events at the Hong Kong Olympics venue

Amidst all the other blog postings about fireworks and little girl singers here's another one. This blog attracts few commentaters but those who do contribute often enter comments as long, and as thoughtful, as the original posting.

This is blog worth getting to know.