It seems those in charge of PR in China right now are having a hard time understanding public opinion. They are working hard towards keeping something like the recent jasmine uprisings from getting a foothold, but their actions seem to be sparking more and more resistance. A week ago they presented Ai Weiwei with what [...]

After an intense internet campaign, Chinese officials cancelled the annual Dog Meat Festival in Jinhua. Dog eating in the Jinhua region in Zhejiang province goes all the way back to the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that one general who was planning to invade Jinhua was constantly getting his troops barked away by dogs in [...]

Nightmare might be a more apt description than story. You can view it here. I had no idea that adoptions from Pakistan were possible, so this was a bit of an education for me. I did some research and discovered that it is indeed possible — Christians can adopt babies born to Christian birthparents, while [...]

The jury returned the verdict in about two hours. Am I the only one thinking that handing the case to a jury at 2:30 on a Friday afternoon is a bad idea? At any rate, it would seem that they believed that Nathaniel did it to himself, but felt the Cravers should have been able [...]

Closing arguments are expected today in the trial of Michael and Nanette Craver. A little boy is dead, and that’s truly tragic. But I’m not convinced the parents killed him. I am glad I’m not sitting on the jury, because I don’t think there is any way to know for sure what happened. I think [...]

Yesterday’s testimony just served to cast that much more doubt on the prosecution’s expert. The York dispatch reports that the defense brought in an expert who disagreed with much of what the prosecution’s forensic pathologist testified to. The defense’s pathologist didn’t find signs of binding, said there were no tests showing Nathaniel was anemic, said [...]