Miscellaneous:

- Heard from a Chinese factory worker: "the only thing more depressing than making plastic shit for Americans is destroying the plastic shit they send back."

- Are you a real man? Do you like to analyze & construct systems? If so, you should have a pretty high systemizing quotient.

- Republicans may say they're the party of "small government," but when it comes to land conservation easements, regulate away!

- So you wanna be a high school valedictorian? Better get out your GPA calculator and hire a lawyer.

- Is China a muscular new giant on the world scene or the "sick man of Asia"? Playing victim of the "imperialist West" is a dangerous case of national mass bipolar disorder.