Red sky at morning

The CBC reports this evening that domestic Chinese travel, Chinese people seeing China, has going from "non-existent" 20 years ago to a $60 billion dollar a year industry now. It's like I've been saying: sooner or later, China's people will necessarily grow in affluence and they'll reach a point where they stop selling goodies to us for a nickel a ton and start consuming their own production. There are 1.3 billion of them in China alone, and only 330 million of us in Anglo America and another 480 million in the EU. We're only frosting on their cake once it's finally done baking.

We better get ready for the day the oven opens.

Another spin on population control, maybe?

SHANGHAI – In a move that surprised absolutely no one today, a Chinese court sentenced a drunken nightclub reveler to death for singing “My Bonnie” slightly off-key during a his turn in a karaoke session. Death sentences were also handed out to a man who picked his ear with his keys, a boy who fell down and cried, a woman wearing mismatching dress and shoes, and an entire village near the Russian border for having too many fat chicks, in defiance of The Great People’s No-Fat-Chicks Correctness Principle. The presiding judge then sentenced himself to death for sentencing so many people to death.

An observer to the proceedings wondered why so many of his countrymen were being executed for such trivialities when Chairman Mao, who was responsible for the lingering and needless deaths of millions upon millions of his own people as a result of his ill-advised, megalomaniacal, shit-headed conceits, lived to a ripe old age and is still regarded as a hero of China instead of an inhuman monster.

He was sentenced to death.