Tuesday Morning Blogspot Edition.

Yes.  Saturday is Tuesday in the land of AKIC.  This Tuesday (Saturday) is a Super Tuesday Hodgepodge of photos, links and observations.

• It is a cold and damp morning here in Wuxi.  Some students haven't showed up for classes they booked.
• Last night, the Toner and I had a good time.  We were playing and he was laughing loudly so that my wife who was in the next room noticed.  A much better way to spend a Friday night than to be at the pub.  There is the love I have been looking for.
• Racial tensions roil Democratic race.  Ha!  In the party that is supposed to eliminate these things.  That is what all this support for affirmative action has brought to the Democratic Party.
• All about Fred Thompson.  Thompson rocked in a candidates debate.   Asked about the recent confrontation between United States warships and Iranian speedboats, he suggests casually that if Iran’s Revolutionary Guard becomes more hostile, the Iranians will see those virgins they’ve been looking for.  And now someone says:  Thompson need only sustain this performance for a couple of days before votes, and money, start moving in his direction.  Thompson is my second choice to take the Republican nomination.  I also think he would make a great VP on the Republican ticket as well.
• We have these two very bad students.  Either they don't work or they don't have the aptitude to learn English.  We would normally fail these students and make them repeat the classes till they show some improvement.  But the school wants us to push these students through.  So we will essentially have dumb mutes in classes with normal students.  Management does not want to refund their money.  It seems that all the students care about is the mark and the actual result of their studies.  I protested that this was lacking integrity.  The Chinese management told me that this is China and our economy is not developed yet.  Some of the Trainers are very angry about this.  Some of the Trainers feel it is their business and we can protest but the ultimate decision is with the management.
• Do you like the new layout?  I may be experimenting with different ones over the next few days.
• It is nice to have a good student who does the work and knows how to conduct herself in class.  She got a well-deserved "A".  Unlike those students who will get undeserved "D"s.
• Fish are surfacing this morning in the canal near my apartment.  Dennis, a fellow Trainer, speculates that the fish may all be exhausted and about to die on account of the pollution.  The surfacing of the fish attracted the attention of the locals who passed by it.  Sign of an impending Wuxi Fish apocalypse?
• More praise for The Wire: the best show on television.  I am currently enjoying the four season tall packaged DVD set I recently bought in Wuxi.