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Beijing – At the End of the Road

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July 1, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Because Beijing, as the capital and second largest city, gets the most media attention, most people go there first.  We made a point of going there last. The first surprise is that the air there was the clearest we had […]

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Our China Journey Part V: Shandong

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June 5, 2015June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

About half of Shandong is a mountainous peninsula that sticks out into the East China Sea, dividing it into the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Gulf. But a considerable portion of it projects into the great plain to the west. […]

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Our China Journey, Part IV – Henan, The Center of the Universe

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May 28, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We bundled our luggage into a van and got on a train and headed for Luoyang, Henan, a place which has frequently been the capital of China, though a bit of a backwater now.  Here were a number of things […]

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Our China Journey, Part III – Xi’an and Yan’an

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May 26, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

From Nanjing we got on a plane and flew 600 miles to the northwest to Xi’an, Shaanxi.  This city is now a second tier city about the size of Chicago, but during the Tang dynasty [618-907] it was Chang’an, the […]

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Our China Journey, Part II – Shanghai and the Lower Yangtze Region

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May 24, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

SHANGHAI We next flew to Shanghai, though the largest city in the country it is not in its core area historically Chinese. Shanghai was a small town until 1842, when just north of it two large concession enclaves were carved […]

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Our China Journey, Part I – Singapore and Guangzhou

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May 22, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

SINGAPORE David, Roberta, and I started our adventure in Singapore, which is a 75% Chinese city but was ruled by the British from 1818 to 1957 and after 1965 by the late great Lee Kwan Yew, who established English as […]

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Our Adventure in Ethiopia

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April 29, 2015July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In March of 2015, our family and some friends took a 3½ week trip through Ethiopia, one of the most unusual of sub-Saharan African countries.  Ethiopia is exceptional in two ways; It became a Christian culture in the 300s, whereas […]

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Very Bad Taste Not A Reason To Forbid Anything: A Thought For 9/11, Nine Years Later

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October 17, 2014
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There has been quite a to-do about building an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan close to Ground Zero. I have to say I think the whole thing is in very bad taste. With one possible exception. The famous Sagrada Familia […]

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Sympathy versus Empathy

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September 9, 2014August 21, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I think I have finally figured out the distinction between ‘sympathy’ and ’empathy’, and why we have two words. ‘Sympathy’ is a much older word, and has been in use for centuries; ’empathy’ is a fairly new one, becoming fashionable […]

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How Michael Dell Ruined My Vacation

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January 28, 2014July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

For seventeen years my wife and I have been going to the Four Seasons Hualalai, on Hawaii Island [known as the Big Island] for a month every winter.  The beach in front of it is full of lava rock and […]

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The argument is that certain kinds of political ideas that are “hateful” are like pornography in that they are inherently tempting to fallen humanity. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html

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Of course, I’d call Critical Race Theory “hate speech,” too. What to do with that? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html

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