Obviously, communism is practically dead in China! Brilliant observation.

Regardless, the idea of poisonous Chinese products being labeled with a Hello Kitty skull and crossbones just tickled my ribs. Your ribs, however, are not my concern.

Now, in the manner befitting a true Man of The World ™ such as yourself, I will be running over your Tiananmen-like opposition to my reference with the enlightened Shanghai tank of my Closed Comments button.

Dasvedanya, Komrade Kurmudge.

Am I still allowed to “disseminate funny sophomoric humor” WHILE STILL acting like a sophomore?

That’s all I have. I’m off to find Smantix and give him a wedgie…

Return to DEFCON 2

comment by Smantix —”

Speaking of lacking senses of humor…. it is quite possible to be genuinely funny (Buckley, in “The Unmaking of a Mayor”, most anything by Scrappleface’s Scott Ott) and still not betray the sort of knuckle-dragging willful ignorance and rhetorical excesses delightfully pointed out by the left, when caught in obvious factual and logical errors.

It is even possible to disseminate funny sophomoric humor without acting like a sophomore (e.g., Jonah Goldberg). It does seem to be difficult here to acknowledge a dumb statement and comment (Hello Kitty and Chinese exports, etc.) in any sort of self-deprecating manner.

Anyone who has actually visited Shanghai recently understands that whatever dishonest, severe authoritarian, anti-religious, megalomania, rampantly corrupt, etc., characteristics properly describe the Chinese government these days (the above all fit), “Communist” doesn’t really work. In many ways, the EC bureaucrats in Brussels are more communist than the Chinese.

Go for it.

Well, crap. Looks like I’m going to have to lose some weight so I can get by on my looks again, because this getting by on my brains thingie isn’t working out for me.

I was under the impression that this blog was inhabited by adults. How did you get in?