Poor Mojo's Newswire

To the ship’s captain, I salute! Your altruistic lofty spirit is worth learning by the entire world’s good people. Under the risk of death, you thought of your crew’s safety, gladly and willingly facing death being the pirates’ hostage. Your bravery will always shine brightly!

This is where Americans’ national pride comes from…in contrast, I feel we are like a fart.

An American general said: “Chinese are normally a sheet of loose sand [state of disunity], but when something big happens they can become a steel plate [united and become strong]“. I hope that before something big happens, we too can become a steel plate.

American democracy my ass, everything monitored by people. Even inside your own home having sex you will be monitored by people. Helicopters spy and patrol. Those saying America is good can go ahead and go there. The day you get shot by several peanuts [bullets], you will not even know how you vanished/died. Even little kids can take your little life. In America, 12-year-olds can carry guns.

This ship’s captain definitely is not a corrupt official.

Writer Daniel Akst has noticed and has had a constructive conniption. He should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has earned it by identifying an obnoxious misuse of freedom. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he has denounced denim, summoning Americans to soul-searching and repentance about the plague of that ubiquitous fabric, which is symptomatic of deep disorders in the national psyche.

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This is not complicated. For men, sartorial good taste can be reduced to one rule: If Fred Astaire would not have worn it, don't wear it. For women, substitute Grace Kelly.

The elections brought a larger-than-expected victory for the incumbent Communist party. "We decided to organise a flash mob for the same day using Twitter, as well as networking sites and SMS." With no recent history of mass protests in Moldova, "we expected at the most a couple of hundred friends, friends of friends, and colleagues", she said. "When we went to the square, there were 20,000 people waiting there. It was unbelievable."

The demonstrations continued into Tuesday peacefully. But later that day, with no response from the government, protesters swept police aside to storm the parliament building and the towering presidential palace opposite. Fire broke out in one wing of the parliament, and the young protesters vented their fury by wrecking computers and office furniture.