Dave’s Wagon

Someone vandalized a picture in Beijing!
Vandal damages China’s iconic Mao portrait
And the last person to do this was just released from prison in a mentally ill condition after a sixteen year sentence for the crime.

I like it when I see U.S. companies taking initiative in China and seizing market share — but not in this way.
MySpace now available in China - minus politics and religion

MySpace, the world’s largest social networking website, has finally come to China, the world’s most populous nation. After months of delays, China’s 1.3 billion citizens […]

Think Chinese tea and human piss couldn’t possibly be confused? Urine for a surprise!
Via Yahoo! News:
Scandal brews over China tea-for-urine samples

A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were — pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.
The results: six out of […]

I was less-than-delighted to see Minnesota State Representative Tom Rukavina embarrass my home state on national news (video) tonight with his bill to criminalize the sale of foreign-made American flags in Minnesota.
Horror of all horrors, it turns out that most American flags are actually manufactured in dirty, filthy, Red China. This, apparently, is a grave […]

Cens0rship is bad, but next in line is certainly collective apathy.
Networks Criticized for Lack of Anna Nicole Smith Coverage
That piece is satire, but it nonetheless hits the nail on the head.
At least these poll results imply that it might be the news networks and not the majority of Americans that need to seriously reorganize their […]