It’s pushing 8 p.m., Nov. 4, here in Hong Kong. It’s Election Day in the United States, but we’re not going to hear any results for another 12-13 hours. Not until Wednesday morning, here in China. Where most people seem massively disinterested in U.S. politics. Even an election for president. Yes, we voted. Or believe […]

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It’s not over for John McCain or USC’s dreams of a BCS title game slot. But as the pundits would say, both have to fill an inside straight. With, like, two cards. Or in the Trojans’ case, maybe three cards. USC defeated Washington 56-0 on Saturday … and dropped two slots in the BCS rankings, […]

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Something I do over here, every few days, is call up the 10-day weather report for Hong Kong from the Web site weather.com Just for laughs. Since we arrived, the weather has not changed. To wit: highs of 86 or 87, but it feels hotter because the humidity is going to be about 70 percent. […]

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As I suspected, there would be a Vietnamese connection, if this search were to be completed. And there was. Maybe a 10-minute walk from this room in Tin Hau is a tiny place, hardly more than a food stall, called “Aborigine Vietnamese Baguette House.” And they have some quite nice baguettes there. Now, they aren’t […]

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Funny, what you can blunder into while trying to complete a mundane task. For example, a division from the Army of Northern Virginia decided to raid a Pennsylvania town in July of 1863 because men in the ranks had heard there were a lot of shoes there … and that turned into the Battle of […]

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